1. Meat and Education resources update
Frances Meek – Senior Education Officer, British Nutrition Foundation

2. Meat and Education:
Resources that save you time, as ready to use and linked to curricula/ qualifications
Resources that are ready for new GCSE
Responding to teacher’s needs

3. 1. Meat and Education resources – save you time, as ready to use and linked to curricula/ qualifications
“So little time available for developing resources, the Meat and Education programme is invaluable for being able to ‘dip’ in and use at any given time. A very useful teaching tool.”

4. Meat and Education resources
Lesson ideas with curriculum links
Videos
Recipes
Interactive resources
Posters and photographs
Bi-monthly eNews and printed resource – sign up online
In our recent teacher survey, 95.8% of respondents rated the resources good or very good.

5. KS3 and GCSE grids – resources are now easier to find
Detailed grids that identify all the resources (with links) that are relevant to each area of the GCSE Food Preparation and Nutrition/ Home Economics specifications and KS3 curricula in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.
The GCSE grids can be found here:
KS3 grids can be found here:

6. The Eatwell Guide
The M&E resources have been updated to reflect the change in the UK healthy eating model and now include The Eatwell Guide.
The updated resources can mainly be found in the Food skills area (years 7, 8 & 9):

7. Food skills
The Skills toolkit has been designed to support progression in cooking, nutrition, health, meal planning, food safety and hygiene. There are 5 theory and 5 cooking lessons for Year 7, 8 and 9 available - all with support resources.

8. Gourmet Burger Builder
A new interactive resource that challenges students to make the best burger!
Students have a choice of beef or lamb mince and a variety of vegetables, fruit, cheese, spices and herbs along with breads and toppings.
A detailed step-by-step recipe is produced so students can make their burger at school or at home.

9. Gourmet Burger Builder
Support resources:
Teacher's guide
Six lesson themes presented as PowerPoint presentations
Structured worksheets that can be used with any theme
Burger ingredient food cards.
Gourmet Burger Builder can be used on a computer, tablet or mobile phone.

10. Do you have shorter lessons?
Have you tried the 50 Minute lessons?
Each lesson pack contains:
A red meat recipe suitable for a 50/60 minute lesson
Teacher's notes
Two activities – applied healthy eating, food science, hygiene and safety and provenance
An Excel recipe costing spreadsheet.
To download the 50 Minute lesson packs, go to: 

11. My Cooking Counts To register, go to: www.meatandeducation.com
Website tool for secondary school students and their teachers.
Focus on cooking skills and techniques, recipe repertoire and food commodity use.
Helps teachers track student cooking habits, skills, recipe choice and commodity usage.
Helps with reviews and planning.
To register, go to:

12. The focus is on …
Recipe repertoire
Food skills
Food groups

13. Overview Schools to register – teacher adds students.
Students log-in to record recipes cooked and rate their food skills – certificate created for their achievements.
Teacher can see Year Group, Key stage and/or whole school progress.
Data/trends can be collected (monitoring, tracking and promotion).

14. Pupils Record their own recipes cooked (with photographs).
Assess their own food skills – rating (self-assessment).
Know the main ingredients they use – overview provided (range/type).
Receive a certificate of achievement – progress.

15. Teachers Share recipes (their own and pupils).
Track and monitor pupils cooking achievement and repertoire.
Reporting available, e.g. cooking in a Year Group/whole school, % savoury cooking, main food groups used.

17. Just add details – 2 mins

18. Add pupils
Top tip
Why not just start with one group?

19. Or upload a list …

20. Information and passwords
Top tip
Print out and cut into strips. Get pupils to stick in their workbooks.
Information and passwords

21. Teachers and students can add their own recipes.
Teachers can share recipes (open access across the school).
Top tip
Focus on ‘What’s a recipe?’ – worksheets provided.

22. Top tip
All recipes can be printed – useful for evidence.
Why not ask students to annotate any additional changes they might make?

23. Shows the teacher what a student has cooked, including:
food groups used (overall)
cooking skills demonstrated (overall)
specific recipes cooked.
Top tip
Ask pupils to print the screen – providing evidence of progress at that point in time. Useful for reviewing.

25. Teachers can track progress of students in their school.
Average number of dishes cooked (savoury and sweet)
Type and number of recipes cooked
Food groups used
Cooking skills demonstrated.
Top tip
Use the reporting function at the end of the academic year and share your achievements!

26. Helps to plot progress – print over time.
Teachers and students can print personalised certificates on progress and achievements.
Shows number of recipes cooked, food groups used and food skills demonstrated.
Helps to plot progress – print over time.
Top tip
Ask students to print certificates at regular intervals throughout the time you teach them – review progress.

27. Support Teachers’ guide Student help sheet Worksheets Food skill cards
Food group cards

28. Recipes A wide variety of recipes are available on the website:
Featuring beef, lamb or pork
Varying in time from 15 – 90 minutes
Clear step by step instructions
Top tips
Some supported by video clips.

29. 2. Meat and Education resources – ready for new GCSE
“Really good reliable resources which I will be using much more when teaching the new GCSE”

30. New GCSE area
A dedicated area to support KS4 teachers and their students. The area contains PowerPoint presentations, resources, worksheets, posters and videos focusing on the following key content areas:
Nutrition
Food science and safety
Food provenance
Food choice
Food preparation and cooking
Assessment support.

31. GCSE skills videos
Six new videos for KS4 students that focus on the practical skills required to prepare, cook and serve red meat.  The videos highlight the skills GCSE students need to demonstrate including:
Knife skills
Making meat tender
Meat preparation - prepare,
combine and shape
Cooking meat - using the grill
Cooking meat - using the oven
Cooking meat - using the hob.

32. 3. Meat and Education – responding to teacher’s needs
Teacher Steering group
Annual survey
Feedback from events
“I feel that you are trying really hard to support food teachers and I love that you listen to our needs”

33. What’s next?
Teachers identified that the priority for next year should be:
Provide support for the new GCSE in food
Enable butchers to visit schools
Provide CPD sessions for teachers.

34. Meat: the butcher!
A new initiative to enable butchers to work with local schools and provide support with:
Red meat butchery skills
Cutting techniques
Cooking with red meat (alongside the food teacher)
Food provenance.
Pilot programme for 2016/17 working with five butchers and five schools in England and Wales.
Show of hands – would this be useful? Is anyone doing anything similar already?

35.
A series of six video shorts to encourage teenagers to cook and eat red meat at home.
The videos could also be used by schools as part of life skills education, preparation for university or after school cookery clubs.

36. Cooking @home – recipes
Beef and sweet pepper quesadillas
Mozzarella meatballs
Lamb rogan josh
Pork Thai bites
Spicy lamb and feta burgers
Pork jambalaya

37. Learning resources
Printed poster, game or active learning resource sent to all registered schools.
Additional resources available
online.
All previous posters (and Newsletters)
can be downloaded from the website:
Sign up here:

38. Teacher CPD – what would you like?
A number of teacher CPD events have taken place:
Practical workshops
Conferences
eSeminars/webinars
Let us know what type of training/CPD suits you best and the content that you would like covered.
But – average non-attendance to events like this is 32%. What can M&E do about it?

39. Food Teacher Professional Portfolio
Are you registered for the Food Teacher Professional Portfolio programme? Over 1,600 teachers and HLTAs are! 
“Excellent – a wealth of resources and training opportunities that can be accessed in my own time.”
All Meat and Education teacher CPD supports the aims of the FTPP programme and the Food teaching in secondary schools: A framework of knowledge and skills (BNF/PHE 2015).
To find out more and register, go to:

40. Meat and Education:
Resources that save you time, as ready to use and linked to curricula/ qualifications
Resources that are ready for new GCSE
Responding to teacher’s needs
“Just want to say thank you for the programme. It has saved my bacon many a time!”

41. And finally! Please help M&E to help you!
Meat and Education would love your feedback:
Format and content of future CPD
Topics for printed learning resources
Thoughts about the Meat and Education website:
Structure and ease of use
Content – is it appropriate?
Is anything missing?
Please help M&E to help you!

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