TastEd at the Department for Education Early Years Foundation Stage Event

Fran2023-07-04T08:25:19+01:00 Engaging the Senses With Practitioners. When the National Food Strategy was published we were delighted to see Henry Dimblely and his team recommend that sensory food education should be added to the Early Years curriculum. Since then we have been working with the Department for Education (DfE) Early Years Foundation Stage...

GUEST BLOG: TastEd Comes to Sheffield!

Fran2023-05-05T16:58:43+01:00 Eat Smart Sheffield is a Whole School & Settings Approach to Food and Nutrition programme commissioned by Sheffield City Council and developed and delivered by Learn Sheffield. Focused on encouraging and supporting pupils, families and the community to adopt healthier eating behaviours, it has two main aims: To give schools the...

TastEd wins prestigious BBC Food and Farming Award

Fran2023-02-03T11:55:30+00:00 Back in the middle of 2022, TastEd was shortlisted as a finalist for the BBC Food and Farming Awards under the Innovation category. These awards, running for over 20 years, each year celebrate the incredible work to promote good food across the UK food system, so to be shortlisted in...

How can you teach the Great Fire of London through Food Education?

Fran2022-08-08T14:42:17+01:00 The idea that food education is important and that it should be about exploration and finding joy in healthy food is not a controversial one. However, there’s one big barrier that comes up over and over again when we speak to teachers, and that’s time! Teachers tell us it’s hard...

In Memory of Lesley Mackley

Fran2022-04-22T15:20:14+01:00 Lesley Mackley was one of the quiet heroes of both food education and food writing in the U.K. We were so sad to hear of her death in March this year and were extremely moved and grateful when Lesley’s family (Tilly, Mark and Henry) contacted us to say that instead...

TastEd Receives Extremely Generous Donation of £100,000 from The Jane Goodman Trust

Fran2022-04-08T16:36:17+01:00 If I had to choose just one word to describe my friend Jane Goodman, it would be ‘generous’. If you gave me two words to describe her instead of one, I would go for ‘extremely generous’. Jane Goodman lived and worked in Islington. She was a paediatric dental specialist. She loved...

TastEd comes to Islington

Fran2022-03-02T09:55:44+00:00 Our year at TastEd got off to a great start. Ever since we formed as an organisation at the start of 2019, our dream has been to help as many children as possible in the U.K. benefit from sensory food education. We believe that taste education should be a universal...

Sharing TastEd with School Families and Communities

Fran2021-12-17T16:49:41+00:00 As part of Prendergast Primary’s Food Week, each class from Reception to Year 6 experienced a different TastEd lesson every day. But, lessons weren’t exclusively for children. Parents and carers in years 3-6 were invited to a Food Week Assembly as part of the Harvest celebration for a taste of what...

TastEd and The University of Cambridge Primary School

Fran2021-11-11T12:56:55+00:00 One of the projects that we’ve been most excited about over the past few months has been a collaboration with the University of Cambridge Primary School. The school is one of the first (along with Washingborough Academy in Lincolnshire) to adopt TastEd in every year group and the feedback from...

TastEd receives a £12,000 grant from The Jane Goodman Charitable Trust

Fran2021-11-10T14:11:00+00:00 TastEd would like to say a huge thank you to the Jane Goodman Charitable Trust for its generous grant which has enabled us to make a number of videos to help schools get started with TastEd, working with talented and award-winning film-maker Tom Perry (https://www.tomperryfilms.com/). Thanks to this grant we were...