#FirstClass Avanti West Coast on my way to Food - a fact of life British Nutrition Foundation conference. Start as we mean to go on!

Really proud day at the annual British Nutrition Foundation foundation conference and lucky to get to meet this lovely lot Haydn Bettles Mrs Alison Cavanagh as well as HRH Princess Royal. Back to reality and school in the morning 🥰 #teachersdayout #inspired #thankyou

Well, last week was amazing!!! Met HRH, met some amazing food teachers who are at the top of their game at the moment, and picked up an award for "championing and demonstrating excellence in Food Education". Henri le Worm Cegin Mr Henry MCR Healthy Schools Love British Food

My life skills group absolutely smashing it again this week. Learning all about the kettle, how to keep safe around a kettle and making a perfect cup of tea. #lifeskills #skillsforlife #SafetyFirst

Cooking isn't just making a dish, it's using a range of skills as well. Year 1 child and our focus was fine motor skills.....no problems!! Garlic butter made and a small bread roll. (Cutting herbs, squashing butter in our fingers, rolling bread dough). #skills #Food

Gardening intervention today with a few children. Sowing some micro greens ready for some of our dishes in food lessons. Fine motor skills, gardening skills, food skills and just pure enjoyment!!! #foodeducation #gardening

Tandoori chicken wraps in todays food lesson! Yes we're a primary school, yes a 8 year old child has made that! So easy and so many skills! So many children could be making dishes like this in Primary schools!

Broad beans are in the ground. Lets see how we get on! #muddyhands #outdoor #outdoorlearning

After 2 years of working with the Chartered Institute of Environmental Health We can now say our #resources aimed at #primaryschool children are now available to download for FREE. Please feel free to use, share and download. The more the merrier!

I have created some amazing resources with Chartered Institute of Environmental Health , the resources we created are now live and FREE and they are ready to share and download! Join the germs as they take you through 10 child-friendly lessons on food safety and hygiene!

A year away from twitter and in that time I have a new school/ job, a new role, and 2.2 acres to develop into the ultimate outdoor learning experience. Here goes....

The new allotment site is all planned out. Our new growing lanes are all coming along as well. We have; 5 (4x2m) 8 (4x1m) 1 (4x4m) Plus the new greenhouse too!! Can't wait to get some Growseed seeds in the ground #nodig #Allotment #community #growinginschools

It's arrived! No-Dig gardening is something we really want to push at school and will be key in the development of our new allotment area. Available for all the children, and will be used in Guided Reading sessions too! Karl Horne @charlesdowding #nodig #schoolallotment

Like Christmas has come early!! We've got some of our seeds for this year from Growseed as we do every year. The value for schools is incredible in terms of price and germination rates! Highly recommend. @RHSSchools

The start of our new pumpkin patch begins today. 3 different varieties, with seeds from the amazing Growseed #allotment #nodig #Halloween

Here it is... 300m² #nodig allotment. Cardboard laid and compost on top, with wood chip for the walkways. It's hard to get your head around just how simple this is! @charlesdowding Updates to follow...

Our free school resources for teachers, developed with Haydn Bettles aim to help young learners to take in and digest food safety and hygiene practices. Look at our lesson plans and easy to digest materials: cieh.org/what-is-enviro… #TeachSafeFood #WorldFoodSafetyDay

Nasturtium in our #nodig #allotment at school. Part of our companion planting to try and detour caterpillar away from brassicas. The children came up with the idea and wanted to try it, they have voted if it will work or not. Now time will tell... @charlesdowding

We've invested £20 (plus dismantling and ensemble time) in another green house. Just need to add the panels and then it will be the home for our peppers and chillies. @charlesdowding #nodig #organic #schoolallotment

So proud to be Chester Zoo Conservation Educator of the year in recognition of all the hard work we have done in our school grounds. @nathan_pardoe @charlesdowding