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FoodTalks !. Victoria Williams. FoodTalks !. Food Matters Food Matters is a not-for-profit social enterprise that works to create sustainable, equitable food systems. Food Matters has a national remit with a local focus. Community Engagement and Participatory Appraisal. FoodTalks !.
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FoodTalks! Victoria Williams
FoodTalks! Food Matters • Food Matters is a not-for-profit social enterprise that works to create sustainable, equitable food systems. Food Matters has a national remit with a local focus. • Community Engagement and Participatory Appraisal
FoodTalks! • What is Participatory Appraisal • Gives children confidence • Children listen and are listened to • It’s fun and engaging • Grounded in peoples’ experiences • It differentiates between real experiences and saying the ‘right thing’ • Food Matters Training • All our work with communities is rooted in PA • PA is engaging • Effective when working with children
FoodTalks! • Why FoodTalks? • King’s Fund report ‘Kicking Bad Habits’ • So many interventions crowding the school agenda • Who’s asking the children? • The need to involve the whole school community- parents in particular
FoodTalks! Developing FoodTalks • Funding – • Communities for Health 2009-10 • Awards 4 All • Piloting the project in two schools • Head Teachers were progressive • In areas of moderate and high levels of deprivation • Year 6 - Transition issues for Year 6 pupils • FoodTalks supports PHSE and SEAL agendas goal setting etc
FoodTalks! • What is FoodTalks - • Two term intervention • weekly sessions - 1 ½ hour • Each session is centered on 1 key question • Healthy snack and drink each week • 1 or 2 activities with the wider school community • Cartoon workshop • Outcomes • School Action Plan • Individual Pupil Action Plans
FoodTalks! • So what’s involved in typical a session? • Post-it notes! • Visual, practical activities • Discussion, questioning, debate • Listening! • Action planning • SNACKS
FoodTalks! SESSION 4 Which actions are the most effective and highest priorities for you? Which actions would you like to try to do more of? • An example of a session • Personal focus on priorities for changes in behaviour. • Identifying actions that could be implemented. • Understanding barriers to implementation and ways to overcome them. • Identifying who else may have responsibility for taking action. • Exploring ways to present the Actions. ACTION STEPS Assessing and prioritising (using dot-voting) suggested actions from the BODY MAPS. ‘Foot-step’ charts presenting personal ACTION STEPS.
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FoodTalks! • THINGS THAT ARE EMERGING • FOR KIDS: • CONFIDENCE – UNDERSTANDING • KIDS ARE REPORTING BACK CHANGES THAT THEY HAVE MADE • CROSS REFERENCING • WHAT WE ARE LEARNING: • SAY WHAT THEY THINK THEY WANT YOU TO HEAR
FoodTalks! • CONCLUSIONS SO FAR • WHAT THEY SAY AND WHAT THEY DO IS NOT THE SAME • THEY KNOW THEY SHOULD EAT 5 A DAY BUT THEY ALSO KNOW THEY AREN’T • KIDS LOVE BEING LISTENED TO AND WHAT THEY HAVE TO SAY IS WORTHWHILE– HELPS THAT WE ARE OUTSIDERS
FoodTalks! • ARE MORE AWARE OF WHAT THEY ARE EATING- (FROM TEACHER) • KIDS WON’T UNDERSTAND ABOUT HEART ATTACKS ETC BUT THEY WILL GET SPOTTY SKIN OR SMELLY BREATH
FoodTalks! What next? • IT IS LABOUR INTENSIVE • HOW TO EMBED PROCESSES IN EVERYDAY SCHOOL LIFE • DEVELOP TRAINING THE TRAINER FOR HEALTHY SCHOOLS PRACTITIONERS • SCHOOL FOOD CHAMPION
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