Archive for March, 2009
Food: their future conference
We were there and met some very interesting people from the British Nutrition Foundation and Licence to Cook.
We also got some great feedback about the Program and suggestions for how we can improve which is always good to hear.
March 18, 2009
30 user school account.
We have recently removed the student, individual and 30 user student account.
The reason is we have decided to invest a lot of money in improving the Nutrition Program to ensure we get the most out of the latest technologies as well as keeping the program up to date with ingredients and nutritional data, therefore it is no longer economical for us to sell the small user accounts. Subjects such as Science, PSHE, Sport and Catering can use the program for their qualifications which could help share the subscription cost.
To view the current subscription options, please click here.
Add comment March 16, 2009
What subjects can use the Nutrition Program?
The main subject areas using this program are Food Technology and Home Economics.
BUT – there are many other subjects and school areas which study nutrition, recipes, meals and diets, and their students could share your extra users.
1. Healthy Schools Initiative – use the program to look at school meals, tuck shop food, student diets.
2. School Meals – by September 2009, your school meals must meet government guidelines for nutritional standards. Our program provides the facility to check the meals.
3. Licence to Cook – analyse the recipes used on this course to see how healthy they are.
4. Hospitality, Leisure and Tourism courses – they need to analyse menus and provide healthy food.
5. Health and Social Care – BTECs and others learn about diet and health
6. PSHE – teaching about diet and health
7. Science – needed for KS3 and KS4 where they learn about balanced diets and nutrients
8. Physical Education and Sport – the GCSEs look at healthy eating and diet analysis and want students to do practical tasks.
9. ICT and Maths – both subjects need to use real data that is meaningful for students – and students really want to know if their diet is OK. There is a lot of Maths in the program and in my experience, students can’t understand the meaning of % and bar charts!
Click here to download examples of GCSE’s and other qualifications.
Jenny Ridgwell
Add comment March 3, 2009
