Children in KS1 learned about food air miles and used food airmiloes website to work out where the food they had for lunch came from. https://www.foodmiles.com/ They learned that growing your own was better for the environment. Also growing food by the seasons which the school has done for the last 5 years. Ghe kitchen agrden contributing to school lunches and snack time was a positive to the schools carbon foorprint. The childrne looked tat packaged vegetables as well looking at where they had come from in the world related to Geography learning. Transporting the food from other countries to the Uk is bad for the enviroment and Climate Change, This increases green house gases and climate change.
The children used the food mile webiste to look at the food they had at home with their parents and see what changes they could make. Some children with their parents started to have a go at growing their own at home.