Food Discovery at Thornhill Primary

PLEASE HELP US!!

UPDATE:
Thanks to a generous pledge of £2500 and wonderful offline donations totalling £1175- we now have a new fundraising target of £1603!!! :) Thank you everyone. Please keep donating!

We now need to raise £1603 in total by the end of term to ensure that we can proceed with a Food Discovery programme at Thornhill Primary, Southampton in the New Year-  we know that with your help the programme will go ahead!

A bit about Food Discovery…
We teach pupils how to grow vegetables and herbs, and how to cook cheap, healthy delicious meals from the crops they are growing and other simple, nutritious ingredients. They explore and taste new foods visit local farms to see food growing at a commercial scale, run a Playground Market and finally cook up a celebration Harvest Feast to share with their friends and families. The simple act of sowing seeds and nurturing them enables children to experience patience, wonder, success and responsibility. Resilient children have a bank of happy memories, and experiences of success to draw on when faced with change, challenges, or failure. Cooking a meal to take home to their family gives children an enormous sense of pride, and parents who might be reluctant to engage with the school, may support a gardening session or come to the Harvest Feast to celebrate their child’s involvement in Food Discovery.

• 97% of teachers agree that Food Discovery enables children to make more informed decisions about what they will eat.
• As a result of Food Discovery, over three quarters of pupils think they will eat more fruit and vegetables from now on.
• Teachers unanimously respond that Food Discovery creates lots of opportunities for pupils to try new things – addressing a significant need for those pupils from most disadvantaged backgrounds.
• Teachers believe that taking part in Food Discovery provides opportunities to contextualise classroom learning and contributes to closing the attainment gap for those in receipt of Pupil Premium.
• Teachers are able to link all elements of Food Discovery back to the curriculum, providing a real-life platform for learning.
You can see our Food Discovery evaluation report here: www.countrytrust.org.uk/what-we-do/evaluating-our-effectiveness 

A bit about us:
The Country Trust is a nationally recognised charity that receives no government funding. We are entirely reliant on the generosity of our supporters to fund our programmes.
The charity delivers Food Discovery Programmes, farm visits and residential breaks to schools with an above average percentage of pupils receiving Free School Meals

We would love to let Thornhill Primary know they can have the programme that we promised them before the end of term!

Thank you!

http://www.countrytrust.org.uk/