New Start to healthy eating

  • A seven year program for each Year Level of the Primary School (K – Yr 6)
  • 21 clearly set-out units for teachers, for all grade levels 
  • Over 90 pages of student activity sheets at graduating levels of difficulty
  • Includes a Biblical perspective to maintaining good health
  • 55 recipes
  • student food and fitness diary
  • food additive decoder

Introductory Power Point Presentation pdf

New Start creates a whole-school focus and involves the whole school community.
Overview:

Lower Primary

  • Choosing the best foods
  • See how we grow
  • My marvelous machine
  • Where does food come from?
  • What’s good for you?
  • Shopping for healthy food
  • Food from around the world
  • Feasts from around the world
  • Safety in the kitchen

Middle Primary

  • The taste of food
  • Planning a healthy meal
  • Let’s get fit
  • The amazing properties of fruits and vegetables
  • Classifying food plants
  • The miracle of seeds

Upper Primary

  • The problem with food
  • A balanced diet
  • The Great Temptation
  • Cultural foods
  • Body systems (1)
  • Body systems (2)

More about New Start:
This free program teaches about:

  • eating naturally prepared foods
  • the importance of fruits and vegetables
  • how to maintain a balanced diet
  • healthy alternatives to junk food
  • the importance of drinking water
  • the importance of exercise
  • what makes a healthy breakfast and school lunch
  • preparing a balanced meal
  • how to identify and minimize potentially harmful food additives

Download teaching curriculum for Lower Primary
Download activity sheets for Lower Primary
Download teaching curriculum for Middle Primary
Download activity sheets for Middle Primary
Download teaching curriculum for Upper Primary
Download activity sheets for Upper Primary
Download recipe book
Download student diary
Download food additives decoder

Fun characters, Supermax and Sniffer, guide the children through the activity sheets 

About Supermax

sleek and fit full of energy can run fast and leap high always healthy makes his own healthy food
About Sniffer

knows the best foods to eat detects problem foods reads food labels makes wise judgements chooses carefully

Sample pages
sample recipes
sample student activity sheets
sample teacher’s notes – lower primary
sample teacher’s notes – middle primary
sample teacher’s notes – upper primary

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