Impress the Hairy Bikers and Michaela Strachan by taking part in British Food Fortnight's School Challenge - every Pre & Primary school that enters receives a FREE DVD with teacher notes - Secondary schools win the opportunity to cook for royalty!

This year's British Food Fortnight's School Challenge (18 Sept - 3 Oct 2010) is the biggest yet.

Pre and Primary school children: the Challenge is to design the ultimate school smoothie and is being judged by children's TV presenter, Michaela Strachan. Every school entering the competition will recieve a FREE Tractor Ted Goes Milking DVD with teacher notes worth £12.99 - a real life film showing where milk comes from. The winning school will receive the full Tractor Ted DVD, book & toy collection worth £250 and a visit to their school from Tractor Ted and his little Activity Shed. Secondary schools: the Challenge is inspired by the Hairy Bikers' recent 'Mums Know Best' television programme. Design and cook a meal based on recipes that would have been used in your school's part of the country by previous generations.  The winning school will be invited to come to London to cook their chosen meal for HRH The Duchess of Cornwall and a very exciting celebrity!  

Competition details and entry forms are on http://lovebritishfood.co.uk/blogcategory/teachers-take-part/. 

The site also offers a new downloadable resource, 'Putting the Ooo back into food - The Case Studies': 100 inspiring case studies of how schools have taken part in British Food Fortnight in previous years, plus lots of other classroom resources and details of organisations representing 9,000 chefs who can come to your school and help you teach children how to cook."The British Food Fortnight resources are fantastic."  School Meals Development Officer, Wolverhampton City Council "A wonderful resource!  Saved me hours of work this weekend." Subscriber to TES "We love this year’s British Food Fortnight School Challenge." Dave Myers and Si King, the Hairy Bikers!  

We so look forward to hearing how your school takes part!

 

British Food Fortnight Putting the 'Ooo' back into food Dates of this year's event: 18 Sept - 3 Oct 2010

Tel: 020 7840 9292 Email: info@lovebritishfood.co.uk

See www.lovebritishfood.co.uk for all the latest advice on how to take part including: our film on why it is best to buy British, the 'Buying British' pages and our 'Want to buy British' service to help you find British food in the supermarkets.