Bygrove Primary School
Made a 20 page recipe booklet, 10 Easy and Healthy Recipes. Eight children from Years 3-6 and parents learnt to prepare and cook healthy recipes chosen by Sherin, Reception Teacher and Nursery Nurse. The choice of recipes was based on Sherin’s experience of working with parents and knowledge of local need. Parents also chose one recipe and another was personalised by the children.
The sessions were held in the Family Room where parents and staff often dropped in, sharing the delicious dishes the children had made and helping spread the word on healthy eating. The kitchen staff were also invited to visit and include one of the recipes in the school menu.
Children recorded recipes with drawings, photos, and writing, designed icons on the computer using Inkscape and collected healthy tips for their recipe booklet. They were ambassadors for Banana Bytes, sharing their knowledge with their classmates and parents in class and assembly. Their booklet was designed and laid out by Charlotte at DK Books and then tested in school with parents for its appeal and clarity of recipes & information.
1,000 copies were printed and distributed to all families in school and then to the local community through Newby Health Centre and Idea Stores Chrisp Street and Bow. The children presented 500 copies to Chrisp Street Health Centre.
See their Recipe book
here
Mayflower Primary School
Made two folded concertina recipe booklets – SNACK RECIPES 1 & 2 with healthy versions of popular snacks plus ideas for very quick snacks and healthy tips. The recipes were contributed by parents, children and staff. 32 children in Year 4 took part with their teacher.
Year 4 ran the Mayflower Masterchef Competition with two Masterchef Challenges. The competing parents and children cooked at home, photographed the making of their dishes and then brought their dishes into school for the Masterchef Competition. The children tasted and photographed the Masterchef dishes, made fruit sculptures, designed logos for their recipe leaflets, laid out recipe sheets on the computer and learnt to use Brushes on ipad. Each child contributed a drawing of their favourite healthy snack. Six children took part in a cookery class in school with creating healthy versions of two dishes which they then shared with classmates.
The recipes included in the Mayflower Recipe Sheets are a selection from the recipes contributed by parents and children to the competition and were chosen by the Class Teacher, Healthy Schools Advisor and ArtSpokes with the advice of the Schools Nutritionist. 1000 copies of their Snack Recipes were printed and given to every family in school. Children also presented 500 recipe booklets to Newby Health Centre in their Assembly when prizes were also awarded to the Masterchef winners.
Try one of their recipes
here
Woolmore Primary School
10 children from Years 3-6 and their parents took part in Banana Bytes. They learnt how to make healthy dips, breads and chutneys for snacks and lunch boxes withTasneem, Parent Co-ordinator.
Celebrity Chef, Rakesh Ravindran Nair from The Cinnamon Club made a special visit to Woolmore School. He talked about his work as a chef and demonstrated making his delicious coriander dip and chickpea bread in the school kitchen. Other visitors to the project included Dr Husain from Chrisp Street Health Centre, Laura from Healthy Lives Team and the Limehouse Health Trainers.
The children made the Hidden Sugars video revealing the high sugar content in popular ‘healthy’ foods. They chose Ribena, Kelloggs Healthy Cocoa Pops, Tesco Value Apple Juice, Fruit Yoghurt and Lucozade Sports Drink. The project also focused on ICT and Presentation skills, parents and children making a PowerPoint presentation to document the project and share what they had learnt with other families. The PowerPoint presentation and video were shown to the whole school and later at an event in Chrisp Street Market and other venues. Their video was shown at four Idea Stores (libraries) and on Bangla TV.
Watch their video
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Marner Shine School
Sixty children age 7-10 took part in Banana Bytes over six days. Ten children and their parents also enjoyed an after school GP talk and sushi making session with Japan Club volunteers. The theme of their Banana Bytes project was unhealthy FAT, highlighting Chicken n Chips, known locally as PFC (Perfect Fried Chicken). The project was informed by two talks by a local GP, Nurse and Health Worker.
The children made the Chicken n Chips video and took part in a Japan Day with sushi making, origami, calligraphy and haiku poetry. A haiku poet led workshops inspired by fruit and vegetables from Chrisp Street market and a Japanese volunteer demonstrated calligraphy. The children designed digital posters to help promote Banana Bytes using their fruit and veg haiku poetry and photos of their origami. Some of the children later visited Chrisp Street Market, met the market vendors and took part in the Spring Festival helping demonstrate healthy recipes in the Pavilion.
Their project was supported by the Japan Society and visitors included the Japan Society volunteers, Dr Beccy Scott from Bromley-by-Bow Health Centre, Nurse Marium Begum and Lutfa Begum, Health Literacy from St Andrews Walk-in and Health Centre. Their video was shown at four Idea Stores (libraries), the Genesis Cinema and on Bangla TV.
See their video here See their haiku here