Grow it, cook it, eat it
Pop-up classroom kitchens. Farm visits. Families and teachers involved. Delicious, nutritious school dinners, cooked by school cooks with the status and training they deserve.
Developed over four years in Carmarthenshire, our whole-school approach aims to tackle some of our biggest health challenges: at the root. Change how children eat early, and the benefits ripple outward: healthier kids, a healthier planet, thriving local producers. Power over food, back in everyone’s hands.
This is what a whole-school approach to food looks like
Food shapes how children learn, feel and grow, so we don’t treat it as a single lesson or a one-off project. The whole-school approach weaves food into everyday school life, so healthy habits form early and last. When food is part of the whole school day, from classroom to kitchen to home, healthy eating becomes part of school culture rather than simply a message children are told to follow.
Six-week food discovery course
Making cooking and eating delicious, nutritious food fun, visiting a farm and building young tastebudsHands-on cook clubs for families
Welcoming families to Cook Club to help everyone cook and eat tasty and nourishing meals together at homeDeveloping food leaders in every school
Supporting teachers to weave food into everyday learning, developing school kitchens and gardensEmpowering our school cooks
Ensuring that feeding kids fantastic fresh food every day is a desirable, rewarding career, with the training, investment, and high status that these essential frontline jobs demandFreshly cooked school lunches for all
Putting delicious and nutritious meals on the dinner table, and backing Welsh farmers and growers along the way
