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We all know how important it is to educate children about healthy eating.

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I learned lots of things, like how to make bread. I really liked it. I wish we could come again. Rory, aged 8

We have developed all of our materials with teachers, education professionals and nutrition experts. They are age appropriate and linked to the national curriculum. Our Farm to Fork Trails offer plenty of interactive, educational fun. Children get to smell, touch and taste their way through the intriguing would of food.

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The Tesco Eat Happy Project is our long-term commitment to help children have a healthier and happier relationship with food. We believe that if children understand more about food and where it comes from, they can make better decisions about what they put on their plates when they grow up.

I loved trying all the different fruits and telling the differences between them. Antoine, aged 10

The Tesco Eat Happy Project so far... In February, our Farm to Fork Trails kick-started The Tesco Eat Happy Project. Since then, children from all across the UK have been on a trail in our stores, exploring the freezer areas, baking bread rolls and tasting stilton – some even liked it! As well as going behind the scenes in our stores, children have pulled on their wellies and visited our suppliers’ farms and factories. They’ve seen how eggs are collected and graded, how mushrooms grow in the dark and how farmers keep their crops healthy. Since June, classes have been using Google’s connected classrooms technology to be transported to Naples to chat to Giuseppe about how he makes pasta and link up with a banana grower in Costa Rica. Children particularly enjoyed handling the food that they were learning about and trying to incorporate it into a recipe.

During the summer holidays, thousands of 5 – 13 year olds learnt to cook healthy and nutritious meals at one of our 50 pop-up cooking courses. We joined forces with the Children’s Food Trust to offer free cooking classes in our store cafes. The feedback has been really positive and parents are especially pleased when their child now offers to help with cooking dinner!

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IN STORE TR AILS Each class spends around two hours with one of our specially trained Farm to Fork Trail Guides, learning all about different types of food and hopefully trying some new ones! The trails are completely free and we even help cover the cost of travel. TESCO PORTRAIT INSTORE SHEETS v2_Layout 1 10/02/2014 12:36 Page 1

Trail Guides can tailor the visit to include a topic the children are learning about in the classroom. Just discuss your requirements

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Make bread rolls in the bakery

Do a mini treasure hunt around the fruit and veg aisle

Learn all about different types of fish

Get a behind-the-scenes look in our chillers

Visit tesco.com/eathappyproject to book your Farm to Fork Trail

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New for this school year, children can see another stage of the journey our food takes to get from farm to fork. Trail Guides will be showing small groups of 7 – 11 year olds the inner workings of our distribution centres. The sheer size of these buildings will enthrall and amaze children and they’ll even get to sit in a lorry! As well as being a fun and unique learning experience, distribution centre trails are designed to be cross-curricular and can include: •  Exploring the site, helping children to identify the diverse technology needed and how it’s used • Interviewing a lorry driver to find out how vehicles are used to distribute products to store • Discovering the importance of food quality control and how we check our produce • Looking at the logistics of delivering food to city centres and remote towns

If your school is near one of our distribution centres, we’ll be sending you more details soon.

Book a distrib ution centre trail at : Avonmouth

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Not sure a Farm to Fork Trail is right for your class? Our Trail Guides and Supplier Partners are happy to discuss what you’d like to get out of the visit. Let them know the age of your pupils and what they’re learning in the classroom. Perhaps you’d like to spend more time in the bakery so you can link yeast and the proving process with their science lesson, or help bring geography to life with a trip around Europe at the cheese counter. You’re in control of the visit. You choose a time and date that suits your class.

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it? Why not take your class to visit a farm or factory so they can see for themselves how the food on their plate starts its journey? Our Supplier Partners are inviting children to see, up close, where their food is grown and how it’s made. Just enter your school postcode on our website to find a farm or factory near you.

To whet your appetite, here’s a selection of farm and factory trails and what children can learn:

Tangmere Airfield Nurseries, West Sussex

Muller Wiseman Dairy, various sites across the UK

Skea Eggs, County Tyrone

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viewing gallery or on the production floor.

Visit tesco.com/eathappyproject to book your Farm to Fork Trail

ONLINE FIELD TRIPS Visit farms and factories without leaving the classroom! Join a Farm to Fork Online Field Trip and visit a factory floor, board a fishing boat or stand in a muddy field without putting on your wellies! We’re bringing food producers from around the world into the classroom so children can talk to a rice expert in Thailand or a potato farmer in Lincolnshire. This term children can find out how many bees are needed to make a jar

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of honey, see what sweetcorn looks like on the cob and learn everything there is to know about the autumn heavyweight – pumpkin.

How your class can take part An unlimited number of schools can watch the live event, and participate in activities in your classroom. Just sign up to Google+ and RSVP by choosing the event you’d like to attend. You’ll find associated lesson plans on our Resource Hub. A small number of schools can ask questions and talk face-to-face with farmers and producers in each Online Field Trip. Space is limited to four schools per event, and registration closes at least two weeks before the event to ensure time for the technical checks needed.

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It was wonderful being able to see other schools who were participating - that was part of the excitement for us! We learnt so much about sardines and were trying to relate it to our life in Foula, as we’ve never seen fresh sardines before.

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Visit tesco.com/eathappyproject to book your Online Field Trip

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We’ve worked with teachers to create ageappropriate lesson plans, complete with crosscurricular activities that are linked to the national curriculum. They are ready to use or can be adapted to suit each class and there’s a range of activities to suit all learning styles.

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The resources cover all kinds of food, from bananas to sardines, and include lesson plans, recipes, videos, activities and lots more to discover and download on the Tesco Eat Happy Project website – for free!

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You can filter by subject too, which we hope will make it easy to add a healthy eating theme to any lesson. Secondary Consumer

How about teaching maths with strawberries, science with a fishy theme or geography using the world banana map? Take a look at the resource hub on tesco.com/eathappyproject

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il? ra T rk Fo to rm Fa r u o y k o o b to y Read 1. Go to tesco.com/eathappyproject and click ‘Register’ 2. Fill in a few key details and confirm your email address. 3. Now you’re logged in, you can find a trail near you. Just enter your school postcode on the Farm to Fork Trail page to see what’s nearby and request a visit. 4. The Trail Guide or Supplier Partner will contact you to arrange your Farm to Fork Trail. Then all you need to do is get your class there - we’ll even contribute to travel costs!