Chartwells Primary School Fun into Food Guide Autumn Term 2016

Eat At Chartwells we love delighting young people with freshly prepared and tasty food, offering choice and variety. This food is developed by our chefs using great ingredients which is nutritionally compliant to the school food standards. Learn We love enhancing the understanding, fun and experience of healthy eating from a young age. We support their achievements through the curriculum, interactive nutrition and education and help them develop personally. Chartwells do this through our interactive fun into food workshops and sessions in the Creative Kitchen. Live We care for the environment and focus on helping create a sustainable world for future generations, both in what we do in Chartwells and how we educate this to young people. We support British farmers and suppliers and Mary’s Meals – where over 3,000 children in Africa are fed every year. Eat. Learn. Live

Curriculum Links At Chartwells we are proud to support the national curriculum where possible to support achievements at our schools. This also helps support our schools with their Ofsted inspections framework for promoting a healthy lifestyle and nutrition education. Example – Southville Junior School January 2016 Curriculum – ‘Passage to Asia’ To support this subject being studied by the whole of Year 6, we put together a workshop that identified the countries within Asia, had discussions and tastings of some South East Asia foods including fresh lotus root and rice paper. The class also learnt about ‘cultural influence’ of chopsticks and noodles throughout Asia with full interaction and a chopsticks game at the end! Example – Green Dragon School December 2015 Chartwells delivered 16 workshops across the whole school on the basis of Fun,Fitness, and Food. The focus of the sessions were the eatwell plate, hydration, hidden sugars and the importance of exercise. This interactive and fitness session linked into the curriculum for nutrition in Science and also PSHE. We also delivered workshops on food preservation and why food goes off for year 3’s science curriculum.

The main focus of the session is nutrition and exercise, covering the food groups on the eat well plate, hydration, exercise and the importance of breakfast. The children will learn how we get nutrition from what we eat and the nutritional benefits they carry out in the body. The fun and interactive part is the children pedalling on our smoothie bike to make nutritious drinks! This workshop is available for Key Stage 2 and requires 1 hour sessions. Smoothie Bike Workshop

The main focus of the session is nutrition and exercise, covering the food groups on the eat well plate, hydration, hidden sugars and fats, exercise and different types of foods. The children will learn how we get nutrition from what we eat and the nutritional benefits they carry out in the body, and will discuss their favourite foods with the class. Followed by a fun ‘heart to heal’ exercises class including running on the spot, hopping on one leg, and star jumps! This highlights the importance of diet and exercise and having fun with food! This session is aimed at all ages and will require the use of a hall or playground and requires 45 minutes. These are great to support ‘Healthy Eating Week’ at school!. Fun, Fitness and Food

‘5 A Day’ Workshops (KS1) This interactive and fun workshop is aimed at Key Stage 1. The main focus is going through a variety of fresh fruit and vegetables with each class, gaining their own knowledge and teaching them different nutritional facts about each one. Each child in the class is encouraged to talk about their own favourites and what they eat at home. The term ‘5 a Day’, trying to eat the colours of the rainbow and portion sizes are also covered. Some of our Food Superheroes feature in this workshop to engage with the children about their individual superpowers!! This session is minutes and can be classroom or hall based with one class at a time. Food tastings can be included in this session.

The Hounslow Creative Kitchen is a fantastic new learning facility where young people can discover the secrets of good cooking, great food and learn the importance of healthy eating. It is available for all ages to all of our schools in the London Borough of Hounslow to use, and includes the training kitchen and the nutrition classroom. Why not contact us and be a member of the Food Superheroes Academy for the day?! Available on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays between 10am-12pm. The Hounslow Creative Kitchen

A 30 minute classroom session on Nutrition is embedded into each of the 4 sessions available in the Creative Kitchen.

Booking Information For more information or booking enquiries for fun into food and the creative kitchen please contact Leanne Turk, our Chartwells Training and Development Chef for The London Borough of Hounslow on or call Each activity will require a specific amount of time, this also depends on the age group and activities to be carried out. Year group sessions and assemblies can be accommodated. Supervision from school staff will be required during the sessions. Please identify children with food allergies when making the booking. Let us know what your year group is currently studying at school and we will try our best to support your school curriculum! Leanne holds a full DBS to work within schools and has been a chef for over 13 years. Following 3 years at Westminster College, Leanne achieved level 3 qualifications in professional cookery, hospitality management, assessing vocational assessment and a level 3 award in Education & Training. She has recently become our latest ‘Be a star’ nominee for her passion and commitment to the children of Hounslow and a representative for ‘Women in Food’ which encourages more females to work in hospitality.