A GROUP of Scottish teachers have been applauded for gaining Good Food Champions professional recognition, awarded by the General Teaching Council for Scotland.
The teachers, who come from Lanarkshire, Glasgow, Dumbarton and Argyll schools, were awarded due to sharing the programme's soil to plate journey with their pupils, which covered all aspects of good food education, from planting and harvesting to manufacturing, food preparation and tasting.
Participants went on trips to working farms, conducted their own research and attended educational seminars and tasting sessions, while the teachers also engaged with local experts and organisations, and are now successfully championing food-related learning in their schools.
The participating teachers were awarded their qualifications by Education Scotland and GTCS at the Museum of Rural Life, Kittochside, and where RHET learning and development coordinator Sara Smith said: “This course aims to engage teachers in all aspects of the food supply chain and they now have the skills and networks in place to move food education forward in their own settings, and the teachers have already started sharing knowledge, through the delivery of their own training sessions."
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