Parents Links
We hope that you will find these links helpful and informative. If you have any comments about the links, have suggestions for other links that would be useful, please contact us.
School Meals & Hospitality Website
www.lbbd.gov.uk/schoolmeals
Provides information about the school meal service, menus, contact details and work that has been done, is being done within local schools.
Balanced Plate http://www.barkingcollege.ac.uk/cw/html/resources/junior/science/
balanced_plate/start.htm
This will help your child learn in a fun way about the food groups that help make them healthy and why they are important.
School Food Trust
www.schoolfoodtrust.org.uk
The School Food Trust website that includes the Government guidelines for school dinners.
Consensus Action on Salt and Health (CASH)
www.hyp.ac/cash/
The website has lots of information on how much salt is healthy. CASH is a group of specialists concerned with salt and its effect on health, working with the Government and food industry on the harmful effects of a high salt diet.
Eat Well Be Well
www.eatwell.gov.uk/healthydiet/eighttipssection/
This interactive site helps you work out what the food labeling terms and symbols mean.
Daily Diet Tracker
www.dailydiettracker.co.uk
Register with this site and you can keep an online record of your daily food intake can keep an eye on your progress with the charts on the results page. The site has a large database of foods to help you watch your nutritional and food intake.
Constipation in Children
www.embarrassingproblems.co.uk/analconstipation_a.htm
Many children do suffer from constipation and the most common cause is a diet low in fluid and fibre. Scrolling down the page on the website to the paragraph headed 'Increase the amount of fibre in the diet' provides a link to a helpful checklist of high and medium fibre foods.
Food Standards Agency
www.eatwell.gov.uk
Government agency with lots of useful information on how to eat a more healthy diet.
Hyperactive Children's Support Group
www.hacsg.org.uk
Leading proponent of a dietary approach to the problem of hyperactivity.
Food Standards Agency
www.eatwell.gov.uk
Government agency with lots of useful information on how to eat a more healthy diet.
Hyperactive Children’s Support Group
www.hacsg.org.uk
Leading proponent of a dietary approach to the problem of hyperactivity.
Just Eat More (fruit and vegetables)
www.5aday.nhs.uk
NHS site with information for families and teens - on how to eat more fruit and vegetables. A vegetable makeover section to help make vegetables more glamorous. Also a downloadable wall chart for children.
Parentscentre
www.parentscentre.gov.uk
A Government website offering support, information and advice to carers and parents, including a section on Government guidelines on school catering and frequently asked questions.
Think Vegetables
www.thinkvegetables.co.uk
Source of information about vegetables – how to use and store them, nutritional information, facts about individual vegetables and some delicious recipes.
Teachers Links
We hope that you might find these links informative and be able to incorporate some of them within the curriculum, assist you with health and healthy eating lessons.
If you have any suggestions about other links that would be useful, please contact us.
Food In Schools
www.foodinschools.org/curriculum/index.php
The importance of a balanced diet for health is covered in Personal, Social and Health Education (PSHE) and the Science curriculum
British Nutrition Foundation
www.nutrition.org.uk
A scientific and educational charity website includes information for schools on healthy meals and a section for teachers as well as resources, recipes and ideas for lessons or cookery clubs.
Department of Health
www.dh.gov.uk/PolicyAndGuidance/HealthAndSocialCareTopics/FiveADay/fs/en
This site has lots if information on how much fruit and vegetables we should be eating and a frequently asked questions section.
Our Bodies, Our Health
www.channel4.com/learning/microsites/I/ict/2.htm
Online diary that builds up a picture of what children eat across Britain. Teachers have to register, then children in their schools can enter information about what they have eaten, which is added to nationwide data about children’s diets.
Teachernet
www.teachernet.gov.uk/management/atoz/m/mealsandmilk
Information for teachers on everything to do with the provision of meals and milk by schools.
What is a whole school food policy?
www.governornet.co.uk/cropArticle.cfm?topicAreaId=9&contentId=623&mode=bg Article what the Government intends by encouraging school Governing Bodies to establish whole school food policies.
Food – A Fact of Life
www.foodafactoflife.org.uk/section.aspx?siteId=3§ionId=35
Resources about healthy eating, food and cooking skills, food and farming.
National Curriculum Web Site
www.nc.uk.net/webdav/harmonise?Page/@id=6016