Over 200 children from 14 rural primary schools in Conwy will be taking part in the Llanrwst Children’s Feast, a food festival designed to promote an appetite for healthy foods and an understanding of how our food choices affect the planet.
Building on the success of Gwledd Plant Conwy – Conwy Children’s Feast, over the last 4 years, staff from Conwy Healthy Schools Scheme and Appetite for Life are working together to organise a food festival for our primary schools.
Children will take part in a variety of activities on a food theme including: working with artists Eleri Jones and Tim Pugh and making a collage and still life out of fruit and vegetables, taking part in the Taste Adventure with students from the School Nutrition Action Group in Ysgol Dyffryn Conwy, learning about food through the senses, learning our food choices impact on the natural world, with Christian Aid and Fair-trade Schools and creating stories and poems to celebrate healthy eating with children’s authors, Gwen Lasarus and Angharad Tomos.
The festival takes a creative approach to promoting healthy eating and developing an understanding of the wider impact of our food choices, as well as introducing children to new tastes. In the afternoon children will see a DVD celebrating the impact of School Nutrition Action Groups in primary and secondary schools across Conwy.
Wendy Ostler, Conwy Council’s Healthy Schools Coordinator said, “Healthy eating is becoming a way of life for our schools in Conwy. Most of our schools now have after school cooking clubs and many of them have set up gardens to give pupils the experience of growing fruit and vegetables. As part of our Appetite for Life programme over 40 schools have set up School Nutrition Action Groups (SNAGS) who are working with their cooks, to market the healthy school meals on offer in Conwy. The food festivals are a real celebration and hopefully the mix of workshops on offer this year will add a new dimension to the work our schools are already undertaking.”
