All you need to know to get fresher, healthier and greener food into your child's school - from nurseries to primary and secondary schools
… How to campaign for better school food Laura Sevier | 25th March 2010 … Food And Farming Health Soil Association School Food Matters Jackie Schneider Organix Better Nursery Food Now School Food Trust Jamie Oliver …
More and more educational establishments are becoming environmentally friendly, thanks to the Eco-Schools scheme. Is this our road map to sustainability?
… Eco-schools scheme help to 'green' schools Nick Kettles | 13th March 2009 News Eco-schools Schools Eduction Sustainability …
Cutting the car out of the school run has health, social and environmental benefits for pupils, parents and teachers. Here's our guide to making it happen...
… School travel plans: how to successfully get your kids walking and cycling to school Laura Laker | 13th October 2010 … Health Society How To Make A Difference Schools Transport Cycling Sustrans Walk To …
Do co-operative schools (trust schools and academies) provide a democratic community based alternative? Mervyn Wilson, Principal of the Co-operative College – which has been at the heart of the development of co-operative schools - explains why co-operatives are proving so popular
… The rise and rise of co-op schools Mervyn Wilson | 6th August 2012 Comment Cooperative Schools Co-op Schools Education 2012 International Year Of …
School buildings, food, waste - even the curriculum itself should all support a connection to, and appreciation for, the environment. Here are some resources to get you started
… How to green your school The Ecologist | 10th February 2010 … Change Society How To Make A Difference Schools Eco Schools Soil Association Food For Life …
Vocal school food campaigner Jackie Schneider on parent power, the importance of cooking from scratch and why free school meals would be the most cost-effective solution
… March 2010 Comment Food And Farming Health School Food Campaign Better Food For Schools Food For Life School Dinners Education jackieimage.jpg Vocal …
Survey finds that school children are being exposed to harmful pesticides, but schools claim safer alternatives would be 'uneconomic'
… Contractors using dangerous pesticides in UK schools The Ecologist | 14th January 2010 News Food And Farming Schools Pesticides Health pouring chemical.jpg Survey finds that school children are being exposed to harmful …
Production line education is creating clones and stifling the imagination of our children. Is it any wonder they are stressed and unhappy?
… | 2nd February 2009 News Education Children School Creativity Schooling Education Children Society … Leave Them Kids Alone, upwards of 3,500 UK schools are fingerprinting their students, …
Tips for passing on green fingers, and a taste for vegetables, to your sprogs
… Green Living Food And Farming Gardening School Food Soil Association Roots And Shoots … to December on the website . The Growing Schools website has a fantastic search … small groups into the apiary when visiting. School rules What kind of food messages does …
Children are an indicator species for the health of our communities, writes Melissa Henry - and they are being forced off our streets by traffic. This adds further to traffic and pollution as children are driven everywhere, depriving them of exercise. It's time to break the vicious circle!
… fundamental shift in how our children get to school, particularly primary school. When I was a child in the early 70's, … of ten 7 to 9 year olds walked and cycled to school on their own. Now 8 out of ten are …
Ask those involved in public food procurement if they would like to see fresh, local ingredients on menus and they will say yes. Then they will list all the reasons why it wouldn't work. Not so, argues Maria Cross - and here's how
… Food And Farming Public Procurement School Food Soil Association procurement.jpg … is that public sector institutions, including schools and hospitals, have been given the … food in public institutions, including schools. The year before, the Italian Ministry …
Teacher Jamie Feilden came up with the idea of bringing at-risk students to his family's Somerset farm for a week in 2004. Six years on and the results are breathtaking...
… morning, he'd normally be getting ready for school. But today, it's into the waiting truck … Jamie Feilden was teaching at a South London school with a high rate of exclusions and … brought two lambs from his family's farm to school. The reaction of the students surprised …
Our prophet becomes a parish pariah for daring to challenge the orthodoxy of the educational system
… | 21st November 2008 Comment Education Schools Parish Council Civic Responsibilities … main cause of the crisis was that American schools were too large. It is a conclusion … Whatever their label, they all want bigger schools. The school attended by the jailed …
Libby Grundy, Food for Life Director at the Soil Association, talks to the Ecologist about the food challenges facing the planet and what's inspiring her work...
… And Farming Soil Association Blogs childrenschool.jpg Libby Grundy, Food for Life … missed. On a more positive note, the School Food Plan due to be launched any day by … Department for Education, should finally give school food and food education the emphasis it …
The Eden Project has launched a website for young job-seekers aimed at helping them land the green jobs of the future
… June 2010 Activism How To Make A Difference Schools Eden Project Green Jobs Society … will be lending a hand in local primary schools. None will be doing anything that … of the quality of careers education in schools more generally. A recent report by the …
Awareness of pesticide-use in public areas used by children is low but the health dangers demand our attention
… Ban pesticide-use in public parks and school grounds - campaigners Tom Levitt | 25th … talking about pesticide use in parks and schools. We want to get health groups and … Contractors using dangerous pesticides in UK schools Survey finds that school children are …
While recovering from illness, qualified teacher Barry Bennett took the time to ponder on how he could share his love of nature with young people, and encourage them to engage with their environment. The result was The Amazing Places Project ...
… Ethical Living Education Society Gardening Schools amazingplaces.jpeg Some kids had their … experience of gardening on the roof of their school While recovering from illness, … project, with the aim of going into schools and community settings and getting …
The Apricot Centre in Essex is a unique project that uses organic horticulture and animal husbandry to heal, inspire and educate children from diverse backgrounds, and kindle love for the natural world, writes Martin Large. Now it's expanding to Devon, to establish a second, much larger biodynamic smallholding near Totnes and Dartington.
… nature and growing healthy food on a farm, a school garden or an allotment then in the long … with children "by accident" when setting up School Farm at Dartington Hall in the 1980's. … on the 8-acre site. Every day the local pre-school group would wend their way after lunch …
Letting children learn flexibly and organically creates rounder, more educated human beings, says Mike Fortune-Wood
… | 15th March 2009 Ethical Living Education School Home School House Humans Beings Education Children … Home education is nothing at all like school. There is an old home-education joke …
From school dinners to farmers' markets and GM crops, SATISH KUMAR explains why our relationship with food is so important and what he thinks makes food really wholesome.
… Organic Food Organic Farming satish.jpg From school dinners to farmers' markets and GM … some other helpers, I established The Small School in Hartland. The very first day, when … and teachers gathered, I asked how this school would be different from any other. The …
Palestinian children as young as 11 work on Israeli farms in the occupied West Bank, an HRW investigation reveals. While the EU buys produce worth $300m a year from the illegal 'settlements', undocumented child labourers are exposed to pesticides, paid well below the minimum wage, enjoy no employment rights, and toil long hours in hot fields and greenhouses.
… agricultural industry. Many drop out of school and work in conditions that can be … One 18-year-old said that he quit school in Grade 10 because, as he explained, … we interviewed said they had dropped out of school. Teachers and principals told us that …
Public will not have to be notified when crops, fields or parks are being sprayed with pesticides potentially harmful to their health, despite warnings from the British Medical Association
… in areas used by vulnerable groups, such as school playing fields and parks, will also be … use of pesticides in the locality of homes, schools, children’s playgrounds, hospitals and … NEWS Ban pesticide-use in public parks and school grounds - campaigners Awareness of …
Faced with the potential use of a dangerous pesticide methyl iodide to spray crops in their backyards, a group of Californian teenagers decided to stand up to the might of industrial agribusiness. Rosie Spinks reports
… to thank for that. 'When I came home from school and told them about it, it was the … lunch table at Watsonville's Renaissance High School on a bright Tuesday morning, Carolina … things you would expect to hear from high school seniors—homework deadlines, graduation, …