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This video, although an advert for a learning resource, shows the importance of mealtimes for developing social and language development. Watch from the beginning for three minutes. Is there anything you are already using in your setting, and are there any new things you could try?
Table of Contents
- Tutorial Video
- Reading Materials
- 'The Eatwell Guide: Helping you eat a healthy balanced diet’ produced by Public Health England.
- 'How to get more fibre into your diet’ from NHS Choices
- 'Hydration for children’ from the British Nutrition Foundation.
- ‘Change4Life’ from NHS
- ‘Government Dietary Recommendations: Government recommendations for energy and nutrients for males and females aged 1 – 18 years and 19+ years’ published by Public Health England.
- Laser Reading Text – ‘Healthy eating’.
- Example menus for early years settings in England: GuidanceClick to access menus and useful information for early years settings to help them to meet the Early Years Foundation Stage welfare requirements for food and drink.
- Example menus for early years settings in England: Recipes
- Presentation
- Good Practice Example
- Good Practice Example
- Good Practice Example
- Interactive Quiz
- Evidence Opportunities
- Extended Learning
- Click to read ‘Fish and shellfish’ from NHS Choices. This article gives more information about the different types of fish, and current recommendations on how much to eat.
- Teach Early Years has a useful article on ‘Health concern: Hydration’.
- 'Start4Life’ offers families information about breastfeeding, first foods, and 'Healthy Start'.
- On the Kids Health website this article looks at ‘Healthy eating’. Click and read all three pages, and any of the further information that is relevant to your role.
- Click to read ‘ Voluntary food and drink guidelines for early years settings in England – A practical guide’, which was produced by the Children’s Food Trust.
- These school food standards are intended to help children develop healthy eating habits and ensure that they get the energy and nutrition they need across the whole school day. They are included in the document ‘School food standards: A practical guide for schools, their cooks and caterers’.
- ‘School food in England: Departmental advice for governing boards’ was produced by the Department of Education.
- This section of the NHS website includes information on ‘Young children and food: common questions’
- Think And Challenge
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