Healthy Eating

Curriculum content:

1. What constitutes a healthy diet (including understanding calories and other
nutritional content).
2. Understanding the importance of a healthy relationship with food.
3. The principles of planning and preparing a range of healthy meals.
4. The characteristics of a poor diet and risks associated with unhealthy eating
(including, for example, obesity and tooth decay) and other behaviours (e.g. the
impact of alcohol on diet or health).

• Food teaching in primary schools: knowledge and skills framework support for primary schools to implement the requirements for food teaching within the new National Curriculum for Design and Technology (D&T) in England and the Core Competencies for Children and Young People.
• https://www.foodafactoflife.org.uk/training/ Food a Fact of Life provide free resources and lesson plans to support teaching staff with the delivery of healthy eating lessons in school.