A Healthy Packed Lunch

This idea will develop a knowledge and understanding of health and wellbeing, applying this knowledge in a real life context. Young people will work in teams as members of a healthy food company with the task of researching, planning and creating an affordable healthy packed lunch for school learners for consumption in school or on outdoor visits e.g. to the Clyde waterfront. Consumer tasting session will follow - for peers and school lunch providers for feedback.

This idea will develop a knowledge and understanding of health and wellbeing, applying this knowledge in a real life context. Young people will work in teams as members of a healthy food company with the task of researching, planning and creating an affordable healthy packed lunch for school learners for consumption in school or on outdoor visits e.g. to the Clyde waterfront. Consumer tasting session will follow - for peers and school lunch providers for feedback.

Broad Outcomes of learning

• Subject knowledge gained and enhanced: learners know and understand that taking exercise and eating the right types and amounts of food helps us to keep healthy
• Subject knowledge gained and enhanced: healthy eating, nutrition, food, dietary disease, exercise, lifestyle
• Employability skills enhanced: application of knowledge in a real situation by working for a healthy food company, to research, plan and create a healthy packed lunch menu
• Enterprising skills improved by developing creativity, confidence, positive attitude; increasing motivation to learning; taking responsibility and making decisions; consideration of others through group work and discussion; raising achievement and fostering ambition
• Develop employability skills of communication, planning, organisation, time management, researching, co-operating, contributing, sourcing, negotiating, analysing, negotiating, costing, presenting
• Develop confidence of working independently from teacher-led lessons; learners will construct and describe the components that make up a healthy packed lunch versus an unhealthy packed lunch, able to identify the different food groups included and think logically on how to make improvements
• Pupils take responsibility for their learning through making decisions about the content of their packed lunch based on their knowledge and understanding of Health & Wellbeing
• Learners have developed enterprising skills identified as 4 capacities of CfE

Relevance to curriculum

• Supports CfE Health and Wellbeing
• Supports Health Promoting Schools - ' Being Well - Doing Well', Hungry for Success
• Supports Governments National Nutrition Standards (Sept 2006)
• Relevance of how curriculum topic on Health and Wellbeing is relevant to work and life and how this subject knowledge is put into practice in a real situation through the planning and creation of an affordable, healthy packed lunch menu