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 …
Pancake Day
Shrove Tuesday always falls the day before Ash Wednesday (the first day of lent in the Christian calendar). Traditionally pancakes were eaten on Shrove Tuesday to use indulgent ingredients such as milk and eggs up before the start of the 40-day fasting season. Pancakes make …
World Book Day. March 2nd 2023
Here at PhunkyFoods, we love books! Books can educate, entertain, inspire and allow us to experience new places and situations. There are so many other books relating to food topics from recipe books to traditional tales to children’s story books. We have our very own …