Case Study Fallin Primary School Lunch Club

An example of good practice of engaging pupils in food preparation and learning the social skills of eating together.

Aim of the project

To encourage children to learn about how to store and prepare food that they could eat for lunch, tasting new and alternative foods and learning about the social aspect of enjoying preparing and eating food together. The food activities take place in the school hall for 6 weeks for each group of 6 children, 2 groups running each year. This is an ongoing project and the food activity grant from NHS Forth Valley was used to buy cooking equipment and the ongoing food purchase costs was and will continue to be met from the school's budget.

Who benefited? 24 Children

Benefits achieved:

as well as their extended families as the children share their learning experiences at home. Increased children's knowledge around food hygiene, safe storage of food. Introducing and tasting new foods. Developing children's food preparation skills and techniques. Social interaction and experiences developed when the children were cooking and eating together.

Children could take home their learning experiences and share them with their extended families.

I learned to be safe when cooking and how to use sharp knives properly. I also learned how to be safe around the cooker when we are using them and boiling water

Lunch club was a happy place with lots of fun

I learned how to chop an onion properly. I was a bit scared using the sharp knives

I learned to make basic food that I can try to make at home

I loved making the cheese and ham toasties