The calendar of 2024 features several different awareness days relating to the hot topic of Food Waste… UK Compost Week took place back in early March, Food Waste Action Week was held between 18-27th March and the 17th April marks Stop Food Waste Day! Food …
World Maths Day 2024
World Maths Day is a great way to ensure children have fun when learning maths skills. It’s an opportunity for children of all ages to get excited and enthusiastic about looking for patterns, spotting connections, making predictions and solving problems. Children get a real buzz …
Slow Cooker Sessions at Coppice Valley Primary, Harrogate
Back in Autumn 2023, the Family Support Worker for Coppice Valley Primary School approached their local PhunkyFoods Engagement and Development Coordinator (EDC), Beth, to work together on a family engagement programme. This aim of the initiative was to support families with their health and wellbeing, …
World Religion Day – Sunday 21st January
The 21st January is World Religion Day, a chance to learn about and celebrate all religions. This provides a great opportunity for pupils to find out what makes each religion unique and special, including the various ways that religious beliefs can influence food choices, dietary …
The Homeless Helpers in West Sussex
The PhuunkyFoods Healthier Communities project encourages and allows pupils to come up with ideas and implement them to help their communities lead healthier lives, putting in to practice everything they’ve learnt with PhunkyFoods. They can address an issue that they’ve encountered, or that someone else …
International Wholegrain Day 2023
What are wholegrains? Many carbohydrate products are made using cereal grains. Standard or white carbohydrates such as bread or pasta are made using the endosperm part of the grain, this is the starchy part. The germ and the bran are removed during the milling process …
Richard Taylor Primary Go To The Farm
On Monday 16th October, a class of children from Richard Taylor Primary School in North Yorkshire, visited White Quarry Farm in partnership with LEAF education to explore where our food comes from and how farmers manage their land. When the children arrived at the farm, …
Taste It Don’t Waste It- A Healthier Communities Project
This month we have been finding out more from Richardson’s Dee’s Primary School who have been working with Phunky Foods to come up with their own project to benefit the community. Here’s what the children have to say about their project. TASTE IT DON’T WASTE …
Healthy Me at Handcross Primary
This term, Handcross Primary School in West Sussex have been working on a ‘Healthy Me’ topic across Key Stage 1. Caroline Cotton, our EDC for the Crawley area, was able to spend two days with the school supporting this topic work, …
Summer HAF 2023
What a great 4 weeks we’ve had! Purely Nutrition have been back in Wiltshire supporting the delivery of the Wiltshire FUEL holiday programme over August. These camps provide free activities and hot food to children during the summer holidays. We’ve worked across 12 camps to …