Roy Ballam, managing director and head of education at BNF, said it was designed to support pupils, parents, carers and educators now learning and teaching at home.
“It highlights the importance of teaching about food and healthy eating within the school day, especially while the country remains in lockdown.
“Over the past few weeks it has been fantastic to see the emergence of a range of educational resources and support for teachers, students and parents, which has now culminated in the wider government initiative, the Oak National Academy.”
The FFL Classroom hosts a range of free, easy-to-access resources which focus on key food themes within curriculum areas, such as where food comes from, cooking, and healthy eating.
The resources aim to encourage cross-curricular learning by using food to provide engaging learning through subjects such as numeracy, literacy, humanities, science, PHSE/health and wellbeing, design and technology, religious education, and art.
Ballam added: ““While everyone is teaching and learning at home, the importance of teaching about food and healthy eating as part of the school day is even more pressing.
“All year round the ‘Food – a fact of life’ website provides limitless resources to help teachers across the country embed food education into their classes and, while the nation is under lockdown, we’ve adapted some of these resources so they’re easy to apply to home learning.
“While food and healthy eating should be a key part of a child’s education, it’s also important to remember that food should be fun! As such, we’ve developed a number of easy-to-follow activities that can be enjoyed as part of the school day as well as in the holidays.”
The new batch of BNF resources brings the total number of activities in the FFL Classroom up to 160, includes 45 different activities. They are categorised by complexity and time to complete and most are supported by worksheets, videos, food cards or interactive tools.