Food Forum - Baking Teacher Guidance

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Bringing baking to life

Guidance for teachers

Food matters
Learning about food and having an interest in it encourages children to take responsibility for the foods they eat. It also helps them to make informed decisions as consumers. This is a good foundation to lay since it promotes food as an enjoyable part of everyday life, but also teaches that "we are what we eat", so what we eat matters for our health and well-being.

As with all food topics, those of flour, bread and baking present numerous opportunities for fun learning, especially the principles of primary and secondary industrial practices and practical food skills.

In case you get stuck for ideas, here are a number of resources for you to try:
Activity sheets	Information sheets	In the F-files
There are a number of 'Bringing Baking to Life' activity sheets available on this site. They have been produced for use with 7-11 year olds and can be edited, downloaded and printed for use in schools. They are: Being a bread detective: finding out about bread Use your loaf: trying out different ways of using bread Get toasting: making a toasted sandwich Having a go with bread: baking with bread mixes	A background information sheet is also available: How does a bread mix work? explains the action of yeast in bread making What's going on? explains the underlying science of bread making Curriculum links To get a full sense of the curriculum opportunities presented by this topic, refer to the Bringing Baking to Life Grid which maps opportunities for learning about flour and bread across the curriculum, and by age. Parental involvement It is also worth checking the Guidance for Parents on this topic, which provides ideas for parents wishing to extend children's learning at home. Other useful website links www.wrightsflour.co.uk www.bakersfederation.org.uk www.fabflour.co.uk	To encourage an understanding the world beyond home and school: A real-life case study as part of the Bringing Baking to Life' materials. The case study, on Wright's Bread Mixes, is designed for 14-19 year olds. It can be used in school as part of work planned by the teacher, for homework or as part of students' own self-supported study. It tells the story of milling and manufacturing at Wright's, presents students with things to think about and do, and signposts additional resources for finding out more.
		Curriculum matters
	Make it! Bake it! resources supporting practical food work.	PowerPoint Resources to support the topic of bread: Allied Bakeries Warburtons Investigating bread

Making the most of home school links

Let parents know what children are learning about bread and baking in school.

Do they have time spare? Are they willing to help out, egs. with practical work, accompanying a class on a visit.

Encourage parents to collect information that might be useful for a topic and send this into school, egs. photos, magazines, books, wrappers or packaging, historical items.

Do any parents have experience of working with in the food industry from which children could benefit?
Children could interview them, or they may be prepared to do a presentation or talk to the class.

Are parents able to provide any first hand experience of the topic children are learning about at school, egs. visits to museums, shops, in-store bakeries.
Encourage children to share that information back at school, egs. by putting together a scrap book that the class can look at, by producing a multi-media presentation of their visit.