Young people in Northern Ireland
FSA Northern Ireland has worked with schools and universities to find out young peoples’ attitudes to food, and produced support materials to help them make healthy and safe food choices when they leave home. A number of fun games are also available for primary school and post primary school children, as well as other teaching resources.
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Food competences for young people
Food competences can help young people to choose, cook and eat safe healthy food. The food competences are set out as a framework of core skills and knowledge for children and young people. This helps to set out the essential building blocks so that schools and community-based organisations can provide young people with a consistent set of food skills and knowledge.
Survival guide to food
Welcome to the Survival Guide to Food, for all 6th form students. So, you want tips on cheaper cooking, food safety, and basic cooking advice? Take a look at the different sections to find out lots of helpful advice to help you eat well and be well.
Calling all teachers!
FSA Northern Ireland is calling on all teachers in Northern Ireland to register their details to receive updates and information on the latest healthy eating tools for schools in Northern Ireland. The Agency has developed some useful and fun ways to help young people to choose, cook and eat safe healthy food. These are available free of charge.
Teaching tools for Northern Ireland
Resources developed to help teachers throughout Northern Ireland enable young people to learn how to choose, cook and eat safe healthy food.
Go bananas
'Go bananas' is a collection of nutrition and food safety games for 3–12 year olds. The games incorporate key FSA messages about diet and nutrition, and food safety. The aims and objectives have been designed to support the learning outcomes of the curriculum and the FSA food competences.
Food and cookery clubs
'What's cooking?' is a practical guide to setting up and running community and school food clubs. It's aimed at anyone who would like to help young people choose, cook and eat safe, healthy food.
Myfoodspace
Myfoodspace is an interactive DVD-ROM developed to help teachers engage young people (9 to 11 years) in learning about food labelling within the background of healthy eating and a balanced diet.
Play eatwell bingo
The eatwell bingo game is a fun way of encouraging players to get the balance of their diet right by using the eatwell plate. The aim of the game is to use the eatwell plate model in an interactive bingo game that makes learning about healthy food choices interesting and fun. Instead of calling out bingo numbers, the game features nutrition messages where players find out food facts along the way.
Beat the Bingo Bug!
To help stop the rise in food poisoning in the over 60s caused by the food bug listeria, the Food Standards Agency Northern Ireland, safefood and district councils in Northern Ireland have produced a game packed with hygiene messages. The game is called 'Beat the Bingo Bug!'
Student attitudes to food
In November 2005 the Agency employed ARK (Northern Ireland Social and Political Archive) to undertake a food attitudes and behaviour survey among university students in Northern Ireland.
Fresher Food
A university student survival guide to food.