Teaching Secondary Geography As If the Planet Matters by Morgan John;

Author:Morgan, John; [Morgan, John]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Published: 2022-06-01T00:00:00+00:00

Food, along with its attendant production processes, is moving to the forefront of our consciousness […] Many of our long held assumptions about food – from the way it is produced to the way we eat – are now in flux.

(Wright and Middendorf, 2007:)

Schools are not immune from these developments, and recent years have seen a growing number of initiatives focusing on changing aspects of the food culture of children in schools. The 2008 National Curriculum included a cross-cutting dimension concerned with ‘healthy lifestyles’. The Department of Health/Department for Children, Schools and Families Food in Schools Programme (www.foodinschools.org) included advice on curriculum initiatives, whole-school guidance, continuing professional development for teachers, guidance on sustainable school meal procurement, minimum nutritional standards for school meals, qualifications for school cooks, and the school fruit and vegetable scheme, which provided four- to six-year-olds in state primary schools with a free portion of fruit or vegetables per day. In addition, the national Healthy Schools programme (http://home.healthyschools.gov.uk) sought to promote a ‘whole school/whole child approach to health’, and was seen as a key means of achieving the goals of the Children’s Plan and of the 2008 White Paper Healthy weight, healthy lives. Finally, the School Food Trust (www.schoolfoodtrust.org.uk), established by the (then) Department for Education and Skills in 2005 with a remit to ‘transform school food and food skills’, promoted the education and health of children and young people and aimed to improve the quality of food in schools.

There are also various campaigns, some of which are highly publicised. One is Jamie’s school dinners, which was ‘all about making radical changes to the school meals system and challenging the junk food culture by showing schools how they can serve fresh nutritious meals that kids enjoy eating’. Another campaign, developed by the Soil Association (along with a series of partners), was the Food for Life Partnership (www.foodforlife.org.uk), which seeks:

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