Green fingered colleagues interested in sharing and supporting the joy of nurturing plants from seeds, are invited to bring seeds from your garden or allotment to our Seeds Library and to take some seeds home with you. The Seeds Library is based within our Library and Health Promotion Resource Centre at Lynfield Mount Hospital.
If there’s a plant that brings you joy – why not share it with others? Browse the seed catalogue of flowers, herbs and veg and have a think what you could add. Download the Seed Library Catalogue below or also available in the Seeds Library and can be provided upon request.
Visit the library to take & donate seeds to share the joy of nurturing the nature. For more information please email: library.lynfield@bdct.nhs.uk
Lynfield Library offers a selection of models, teaching packs, games and charts free to borrow for anyone promoting health within Bradford District. The Library is open and staffed Monday to Friday.
Resources cover topics including:
• Drugs & Alcohol
• Anatomy
• Contraception and sexual health
• Healthy eating and exercise
• Mental health and emotional wellbeing
• Oral health and personal hygiene
• Parenting, pregnancy and breastfeeding
• Dementia reminiscence
• Safety
• Self-examination, screening and cancer prevention
• Smoking
• Free leaflets/posters from a range of organisations such as British Heart Foundation, Cancer Research UK etc
To contact please call 01274 223900 or email: library.lynfield@bdct.nhs.uk
The Natasha Allergy Research Foundation
Allergy School offers free, practical resources to help teachers create inclusive and safe environments for children with food allergies. Our resources empower educators to protect every child and foster confidence and understanding among pupils, ensuring those with food allergies feel supported. Resources are for nurseries, primary schools, and out-of-school clubs for children aged 3-11, featuring Arlo, the friendly food-allergic armadillo who makes learning about food allergies fun and engaging.
Resources include:
• Films
• Lesson plans
• Assembly packs
• Self-assessment checklist
• First aid advice and more
(free)
Belly Bugs curriculum is for EYFS, KS1 and KS2. These lessons teach children about their gut microbiome and how looking after their Belly Bugs significantly improves their health. All lessons fit the National Curriculum with the ELG's. Lessons are cross curricular with maths, english, science, art & DT, PA and PSHE. Every lesson is backed by the latest research. It goes without saying that both teachers and pupils love Belly Bugs lessons.
Resources include:
• Teacher plans
• Lessons
• Teacher support
• Menu posters
• Songs
• Games
For any questions or to get started and gain access to the programme/teachers area please email: zoe@bellybugs.co.uk
(free)
Research consistently shows that having a nutritious breakfast is hugely beneficial for children’s health and learning.
Scope of existing resources:
• School Food Matters: Breakfast Club Guide - handy tips & tricks to make your breakfast offer nourishing & healthy!
• British Nutrition Foundation: Good Breakfast Guide (a guide to healthy breakfast for school-aged children) & National Schools Breakfast Week Guide
• Magic Breakfast: meeting the nutrition challenge
• Food a Fact of Life: Breakfast Clubs & Breakfast Search
• NHS Better Health, healthier families: Healthier Breakfast Swaps & Healthier Breakfast Recipes
(free)
The Healthy Start scheme helps eligible families to buy cow's milk, healthy foods and infant formula milk, plus free vitamins.
Staff Briefing Sessions:
• The scheme has undergone a number of changes over the last few years, want to learn more? Please click here.
Families:
• You could qualify if you are pregnant or have children under 4 years, if you are on benefits, or if you’re pregnant and under the age of 18.
• Please click here to apply, check your eligibility or by asking your health visitor.
• Please click here for details on Bradford Healthy Start vitamins.
Living Well Schools
It is important that children have nutritious food at lunchtime, so we have worked with a nutritionist to develop this toolkit for packed lunches. To ensure children have a nutritious, tasty and well-balanced packed lunch, to keep them focused and to maximise their learning. Please download the free toolkit below.
Other healthy lunchbox resources:
• Living Well – healthy lunch boxes
• NHS Better Health, Healthier Families – healthier lunchbox recipes
• Food a Fact of Life – healthy lunchboxes
(Free)
School Food Matters
Sharing guidance and tips on running successful breakfast clubs that serve tasty, nutritious food.
Blog support includes:
• Full recording Better Breakfasts webinar (download slide deck below)
• Introduction to ‘early adopters’ scheme
• Benefits of a great breakfast (evidence-based)
• Best practice
• Meeting school food standards
• Different models of breakfast provision
• Breakfast Club Guide - handy tips & tricks to make your breakfast offer nourishing & healthy!
• Please click here to read full blog post.
(free)
ProVeg UK
This education programme teaches children about the food they eat: where it comes from, how it is made, and its impact on our health and the planet. Each of their 24 lessons is aligned to the national curriculum and ‘ready-to-go' and come with an evidence-based plan, engaging presentation and additional resources.
Resources topics include:
• ProVeg School Plates
• Pro Taste
• Pro Health
• Pro Justice
• Pro Animals
• Pro-Environment
Email: martin.skingley@proveg.org
(Free)
Our campaigns are aimed at people living and working in Bradford district. We want to make it easier for everyone to live healthier, more active lives and our innovative campaigns are designed to show people how to get started and find local support.
Campaigns your school could get involved in:
• 20 Minute Movement
• Swap Well to Eat Well
• Grow Well to Eat Well
• You CAN quit - We CAN help!
• New Year Resolutions 2025!
(Free)
It is a difficult time for everybody right now. The rising cost of everything, from groceries to utilities, is making it difficult to make ends meet.
This does not mean that you have to be in crisis to be struggling, and it is affecting all of us, not just the lowest earners.
Take a look at their Cost of Living support, there might be something here that helps you get through it and keep checking back, we’ll be adding new content regularly.
(Free)
TastEd is a charity dedicated to transforming food education in schools and nurseries across the UK. Our mission is to help children develop a lifelong, healthy relationship with food through sensory food education: a fun, pressure-free way to explore fruits and vegetables using all five senses. We offer primary schools a fully funded scheme of work designed to give children the chance to experience new vegetables and fruits in a positive way.
Resources include:
• A teacher training video
• Teacher guides
• 50+ lesson plans
• 50 + Powerpoints
• Student worksheets
• HAF activity plans
• Continuous provision ideas for EYFS
(Free)
British Nutrition Foundation
Free resources for teaching young people aged 3-16 years about where food comes from, cooking and healthy eating. The programme meets the requirements of food and nutrition curriculum across the UK.
It also aligns with other subjects including:
• design and technology
• health and wellbeing
• science
• numeracy
• literacy
• geography
• religious education
• RSE and health education
(Free)
Making it easier for everyone in Bradford District to live healthier more active lives.
Find support on:
• Smoking
• Mental health
• Eating well
• Drugs and alcohol
• Physical activity
• Long term conditions
• Pregnancy and health
• Family health
• Teem health hub
Soil Association
Food for Life Learning and Skills Hub have developed a wide range of resources and inspiring case studies to support you in running food and farming related activities. Browse the different sections on farming, climate and nature, cooking, growing, nutrition and early years education. Resources include downloadable PDFs, films and even some online interactive activities.
Categories include:
• Cooking and Nutrition
• Farming, Climate and Nature
• Kitchen Garden Projects
• Growing
• Early Years
(free)
Directory of support and help.
Offering a wheel of support on:
• Make friends
• My money
• My mind
• My family
• My health
• My work and skills
• Finding other support
Welcome to Families and Young Persons Information
A free, impartial service offering advice, information and signposting to children, young people and families within the Bradford district. Here you can find information and advice pages for all aspects of family life, a service directory and a guide to local activities and events. If you can't find what you are looking for, we are here to help!
Free lesson plans, guidance, and activities.
We exist to support schools to take their pupils outside for learning and exploration. On this page we’re sharing a selection of useful lesson plans, gardening and nature-based activities, plus videos and guidance to support even the most cautious teacher to take their class outside.
• Food Growing
• Online tutorials
• Nature-based Learning
• Outdoor Learning
(Free)
University of York
Working to transform the Yorkshire food system to provide healthy, sustainable and tasty food for children with less harm to our planet.
Join by completing this 10 minute survey & get access to:
• Data to compare your school’s approach to food compared with others in your area
• Free resources and ideas to support teaching about food in schools
• Notification about national and regional food initiatives
• Opportunities for school trips, to engage with farmers and other events
• Chances to win prizes for your school
If you have any questions please email: fixourfoodinschools@york.ac.uk
(Free)
Veg Power
Our mission is to inspire kids to love vegetables and to share that joy with their parents today and their own children tomorrow. Aiming to lead to an increase in nutrition education in children, families, and teachers and subsequently increased vegetable intake.
Our campaigns to get involved in:
• Eat Them to Defeat Them
(whole school - community sponsor)
• Growing to Love
(classroom - community sponsor)
• Eat The Rainbow
(classroom/HAF - cost)
• Simply Veg
(parents/carers - free)
Get help for your charity, community group or school. The Neighbourly platform is free to use and connects you with businesses that have volunteer time, money or product surplus to donate. The first step is to create your page and tell us what kind of help you need.
Product surplus - connecting you with local stores and distribution centres that have quality surplus to give, for free. We’ve supported the donation of millions of meals and thousands of tonnes of products from companies like M&S, Lidl, Aldi, Sainsbury's and B&Q.
(free)
A healthy breakfast supported by physical activity can help regulate emotions, improve memory, and cognitive function, leading to better learning.
Here are 10 tips for how to set-up and develop Active Breakfast Clubs to optimise
these benefits, which is reinforced by compelling research.
Emergency food parcels and low-cost food markets
Find out more information on:
• Emergency food
• Low-cost food
• An emergency meal
(free or low-cost)
A guide for looking after your baby's teeth
Find out more information on:
• Your baby’s teeth are important
• Visiting the dentist
• Eating and drinking
• Brushing your baby’s teeth
• Maming brushing easier
• Family or friends
(free)
The Supervised Toothbrushing Toolkit
Optimising toothbrushing programmes in nurseries and schools. Supporting supervised toothbrushing programmes to reduce tooth decay in young children. This toolkit was developed to bring together new and existing resources to help support the implementation of supervised toothbrushing programmes and clubs.
(free)
Supporting Whole School Approaches to Food
A free resource to help busy primary schools develop their whole school approach to food policy. Try out their free self-review tool for you to measure your current level of implementation, with generated text that you can use on your school website.
(Free)
A selection of practical tools and key resources for schools produced by the School Food Plan team on behalf of the Department for Education.
Resources include:
• School Food Standards
- Guidance
- Summary/Poster
- Checklist for school lunch
- Checklist for school food other than lunch
- Portion sizes and food groups
• Checklist for Headteachers
• Ofsted and School Governor Guidance
• Training Resources: The Importance of a Good School Food Culture
• ‘What Works Well’ Recipe Hub
• Small Schools Toolkit
• The School Food Plan
(Free)
Useful resources and practical tools for schools produced by the School Food Plan team on behalf of the Department for Education.
Resources include:
• School Food Standards
• Food Education Toolkit
• Universal FSM Toolbox & FSM Evidence Pack
• The School Food Plan
• Checklist for School Lunches/Food
• Ofsted and School Governor Guidance
• Training Resources
• The Importance of a Good School Food Culture
(Free)
Department for Education
Resources to help schools plan and provide healthy food in schools and practical guidance on how to apply the school food standards.
The resources include:
• School food standards poster
• School food: guidance for governors
• Advice on creating a culture of healthy eating
• Headteacher and school lunch/food checklists
• Guidance on food groups, portion sizes and allergies
• Preparing varied and tasty menus
(Free)
A revolution in food education, teaching the next generation about food, health and sustainability. A game-changing programme designed for KS1, KS2 AND KS3. Short films designed for teachers by teachers to cultivate a lifelong understanding of food and nutrition in young minds.
(Cost)
Department for Education
Guidance on the standards for planning and providing food in schools.
It includes information on:
• Planning and provision of school food
• The school food plan
• The provision of milk
• The free fruit and vegetables scheme
(Free)
Public Health England
Support for primary schools to implement the requirements for food teaching within the new National Curriculum for Design and Technology (D&T) in England and the Core Competences for Children and Young People.
(Free)
Department of Health & Social Care
Welcome to the new home for School Zone. Our look has changed but you can still find our flexible teaching resources for both primary and secondary schools. They cover a range of topics including nutrition, physical activity and mental wellbeing.
You will need to register for an account and sign in to download School Zone resources.
(Free)
Living Well Schools
Supporting all children with a view though the perspective of the poorest child in school. A document providing guidance and case studies around Bradford practice on pupil support.
For this document in a "Word" format please contact:
schools@mylivingwell.co.uk
(Free)
Living Well Schools
Seeing additional opportunities though the perspective of the poorest child in school. A document providing guidance and case studies around Bradford practice on additional opportunities.
For this document in a "Word" format please contact:
schools@mylivingwell.co.uk
(Free)
Living Well Schools
Seeing school food though the perspective of the poorest child in school. A document providing guidance and case studies around Bradford practice on school food.
For this document in a "Word" format please contact:
schools@mylivingwell.co.uk
(Free)
Living Well Schools
The pupil voice survey is designed to gather pupil perceptions and insights across three key elements of health and well-being: physical activity, eating well, and emotional well-being.
For this document in a "Word" format please contact:
schools@mylivingwell.co.uk
(Free)
Food Active
GULP is a campaign from Food Active which aims to raise awareness of the health harms associated with consuming too many sugary drinks, and promote milk and water as the best sources of hydration. As part of the campaign, a range of free resources are available for schools to use to promote these messages to KS2 and KS3 pupils including assemblies, activities, games, posters and policy toolkits.
For more information please contact: info@foodactive.org.uk
(Free)
We are the national body for PSHE education. PHSE Association has lesson plans, slides, accompanying resources and teacher guidance covering:
• Physical Health (includes food choices, physical activity, balanced lifestyles, drugs & alcohol education, first aid, sleep and dental health).
• Mental Health
• Growing and Changing
• Personal Safety
• Relationships and Sex Education
• Bullying and Discrimination
• Media and Digital Literacy
• Money and Careers
• Community and Responsibility
Skills 4 Bradford is the Traded Services Hub of Bradford Council bringing together a comprehensive range of services for schools and early years providers in Bradford and beyond. These teams of professionals have significant experience and expertise working in Education and Early Years for Bradford Council. We can cover all your school's / provider's needs in a professional and cost-effective manner.
For general queries please email: Info@skills4bradford.co.uk