Join NFU Education as we introduce you to four exciting speakers from a range of careers and organisations who will guide you through how you can transform your Primary Science curriculum using one of the most relevant issues of our time: our food and where it comes from.
Jennie Devine is a former primary school teacher and Maths leader. She will be explaining how
Farming STEMterprise, NFU Education’s range of free cross-curricular STEM projects, can be used to reduce teacher workload, inspire reluctant learners and deliver key objectives from the Key Stage 2 STEM curriculum. Farming STEMterprise engages reluctant learners through real-life, meaningful problems as part of engaging cross-curricular projects. The projects take children through each stage of setting up a farm shop business: considering seasonality when deciding which crop to grow, growing their own ingredients, considering nutrition when designing their recipes, using market research to test their ideas out with potential consumers, working within a budget when buying additional ingredients, learning knife skills when making their products, calculating expected profit, designing responsible packaging and much more
@jennie_devine @NFUEducationNathan Atkinson, a former primary school head teacher, is on a mission to improve health and wellbeing outcomes for children, young people and communities by changing the way we think about food whilst also working towards the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals.
The
RETHINK FOOD FUTURES growing tower is used by schools to help teach the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals alongside a growing programme. This programme introduces innovative, soil free technology using water and liquid nutrients to grow food. The tower increases yields by as much as 30% and triples the speed of growth, while using only 10% of the water and space. The grow lights on the tower garden allow you to grow plants indoors all year long. There’s less hassle and clean up because it doesn’t use soil. You can wheel the tower from the classroom to the playground, or the kitchen to the dining room. This creative and innovate curriculum engages learners of all abilities and backgrounds and makes precise links to the National Curriculum. Participants begin their journey as scientists, then learn to be farmers before becoming chefs and finally consumers.
@RethinkFoodUKTom Martin is a farmer from Cambridgeshire producing your bread, beer, lamb, oil, and Malteser’s. He studied Natural Sciences at Durham University, and worked in consultancy, news & magazines, and latterly in film before becoming a farmer. He founded the free initiative
Farmer Time (formerly ‘FaceTime a Farmer’) three years ago, and today over 300 British farmers video call their own paired classroom once every few weeks to share what is happening in the countryside and to link that to what the children have been learning. With a strong social media following as ‘Farmer Tom', Tom is passionate about using technology to show people what happens on the other side of the farm gate, and to educate the next generation not only of consumers, but decision makers, and food producers. Tom is an excellent and lively communicator and is looking forward to presenting this exciting initiative to you!
@Farmer_Tom_UKHaydn Bettles is a teacher with a passion for food and for good reason. Before entering the classroom as Food Education Co-ordinator at
Armitage CE Primary School in Manchester, he could be found in the restaurant kitchen working alongside Michelin starred chefs. Haydn has utilised all of the projects within this session as part of his whole school approach to food and farming. Not only that, but in the last year he has also turned his school into a farm, launched parent cooking clubs, introduced ‘Watermelon Fridays’ and won an outstanding contribution award from the Food Teachers’ Centre.
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