eco schools scotland

Food and the EnvironmentEve Keepax

Food and the Environment Officer

How the Eco-Schools programme

works� Schools register on-line

� Three Award levels� Bronze – self assessed

� Silver – self assessed

� Green Flag – assessment visit to school

� Schools renew Green Flag status every two years

� Seven Elements & Ten topics(litter, waste, energy, water, health, school grounds, biodiversity, transport, global citizenship, food and the environment)

The 7 Elements

1.Eco-Schools

Committee

2.Review

3.Action Plan

4.Monitoring

&

Evaluation5.Curriculum

Work

6.Informing

&

Involving

7.Eco-Code

10 Environmental Topic Areas

• Health & Well Being

• Waste Minimisation

• School Grounds

• Sustaining our World

• Food and the Environment

• Litter

• Energy

• Transport

• Water

• Biodiversity

Website navigation

Topic sections in online guide

What is contained in this topic?

Food and the Environment Topic

Objectives

Hands

• Reconnect children and young people with raw foods and ingredients and their processes of production.

Heart

• Foster an appreciation of local distinctiveness and the intimate associations between place and food.

Head

• Develop awareness of the impacts on the environment of different methods of food production and processing.

Head - heart - hands

• Develop an awareness of the links between our food choices, the environment and people and places elsewhere

Curricular Mapping - Third Level

Food and the Environment

Eco-Schools Scotland Website

Food and the Environment Topic

Actions• Growing and Harvesting

– Range of produce, animal husbandry

– Soil science, local distinctiveness

• Using Food– Preparing and eating

– Procurement

– For sale or distribution

• Food Waste– Canteen

– Packaging

• Wider Issues– Food Miles

– Ethical choices

– Food culture

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