Building on the success of Gwledd Plant Conwy / Conwy Children’s Feast over the last 2 years, staff from Conwy Healthy Schools Scheme and Appetite for Life are working together with the Conwy Feast team 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 artist Luned Rhys Parri in Conwy Castle to create a medieval feast
- learning about the balance of good health and making a collage out of fruit and vegetables with students from the School Nutrition Action Group in Ysgol Aberconwy
- learning about food in World War II with the National Trust
- learning about healthy eating through dance
- cooking a variety of healthy dishes on the Cooking Bus
- listening to stories about food from Cath Aran and Mair Tomos Ifans
- sampling food from the Tudor period with Cadw
- learning how our food choices impact on the natural world, through working with local beekeepers, Christian Aid, Fair-trade Schools and the RSPB.
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 Theatre in Education production ‘Personal Best’ which shows how our food and exercise choices impact on our personal health.
Wendy Ostler, Conwy’s Healthy Schools Coordinator said, “It is quite a challenge to offer innovative approaches to food for our schools in Conwy. Most of our schools now have after-school cooking clubs and many of them have set up vegetable and wildlife gardens.”
“As part of our Appetite for Life programme over half our 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.”
