Sanday school pupils on the food trail
Children from Sanday Community School swapped their classroom for a fishmongers and a supermarket yesterday for a food fact-finding mission to Kirkwall.
The Sanday children are among the first from Scotland to take part in a ‘Farm to Fork Trail’, a Tesco-led initiative to help children find out more about the food on their plate and how it gets there.
When they arrived, pupils aged 5-8 from the Orkney school were treated to a behind the scenes lesson on how Scottish Salmon are prepared for sale at Jolly’s Fish. The trail then continued at the Kirkwall Tesco store to learn about how different types of bread is made, to see how the Salmon from Jolly’s Fish is sold, and to investigate the taste, smell and origin of different fruit and vegetables.
Backed by Diabetes UK, the Children’s Food Trust and the NFU amongst others, Farm To Fork is the first initiative of Tesco’s Eat Happy Project, a major new food education programme that is committed to improving children’s relationship with food.
Offered to every primary school in the UK, Farm To Fork will see food suppliers across the country opening their farms and factories to teach kids how, for example, milk is produced, where eggs come from and how lettuce grows.
Specially trained staff in more than 700 Tesco stores across the UK will also be teaching children about different foods and giving practical demonstrations, for example, baking bread, tasting new fruits and vegetables and learning all about fish.
To view and download video content of children taking part in a Farm To Fork Trail, please go to https://www.youtube.com/watch?