Curtain up on food safety

The importance of healthy eating and food safety will be promoted in Primary Schools across the district as part of this years National Food Safety week which takes place during 11 - 18 June.  

Stratford-on-Avon District Council in conjunction with South Warwickshire Dietetic Service is working in partnership with Stratford-upon-Avon College performing Arts Department to deliver healthy eating and food safety plays to primary schools across the district.   

Eighty students have been given a brief on healthy eating and food safety and will be creating 8 different pieces of theatre as part of their Theatre in Education project and work experience.  This is a significant project for the college as it provides the students with an important and valuable workplace opportunity and has made a significant contribution towards the college attaining Grade 1 status in performing arts.  

The plays will include messages on the importance of 5-a-day and the five food groups required for the balance of good health.  Personal hygiene messages which will include the importance of hand washing will be delivered to 47 primary schools across the district reaching in the region of 20,000 small hands.  

Given the rising levels of childhood obesity, this is a significant project which aims at getting important information to our children and through them to parents, siblings and carers.