FFK30: What children learn through cookery, with Chris Lord

Food For Kids

This episode explores why cookery and food teaching is not just teaching a basic life skill although that is also very important, but how it is a vehicle for teaching lots of other parts of the curriculum and lots of skills that you wouldn’t necessarily think of as being related to food. So whether you have a child in pre-school, in a school, if you’re homeschooling, or if you just want to help your child to learn some things at home, hopefully this will interest you.

Back in July we had an episode with a food teacher called Chris Lord who has been teaching food and cookery for over twenty years in several different countries. I have another short interview with Chris today where he talks about how he has used food to deliver other parts of the curriculum in his schools, and then I run through some examples of other ways to use food in learning.

Links in the episode:

Food A Fact Of Life: https://www.foodafactoflife.org.uk/

Let's Get Cooking: https://www.bda.uk.com/food-health/lets-get-cooking.html

Chris's website about food and travels: https://www.lordysguide.com

Food for Life curriculum summary: https://www.foodforlife.org.uk/media/flzbu5ph/links-across-the-curriculum.pdf

Whole school ideas: https://www.foodafactoflife.org.uk/whole-school/whole-school-approach/curriculum-qualifications-and-frameworks/

Report from the school food plan: https://www.schoolfoodplan.com/report/cooking-in-the-curriculum/

BBC ideas: https://www.bbc.co.uk/food/articles/learning_through_cooking

Food a Fact of Life resources: https://www.foodafactoflife.org.uk/professional-development/ppd-toolkit/primary/

Taste education resources: https://www.tasteeducation.com/primary/

Homeschool resources: https://www.homeschoolnaturally.com/blog/homeschool-cooking-curriculum-kids

Music "Happy Days" by Simon Folwar via Uppbeat