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Curriculum Links 

  • KS2 D&T - Cooking and nutrition: Understanding where and how ingredients are grown, reared, caught, and processed. 
  • KS3 Citizenship - The role of organisations and policies in promoting sustainable living and ethical consumer choices. 
  • KS3&4 Geography - Place and space: Global food production and supply chains, environmental responsibility, and sustainability. 
  • KS4 D&T (Food & Nutrition GCSE) - Food provenance, sustainability, and animal welfare standards in commercial food production. 

Learning Objectives 

  • Knowledge that products can be traced back to their sources, and that standards such as RSPCA Assured exist to ensure animal welfare and sustainable production. 
  • Understanding of how customer choices and company policies (like sustainable sourcing) can affect the environment, animal welfare, and global food supply chains. 
  • Skills in critically evaluating information about food provenance and sustainability. 

Discussion and Activity Ideas 

KS2 

  • Where does our food come from? – Talk about how different foods get from their source to store shelves. 
  • Should animals have space to play, roam, and behave naturally? Why might this be important? 
  • Create a world or UK map showing where different foods come from. 
  • Take on the roles of farmer, fish supplier, supermarket, and customer to discuss what matters most (price, welfare, sustainability). 

KS3 

  • How does buying RSPCA Assured or sustainable fish affect farmers, fish suppliers, and the environment? 
  • Research one food product (fish, chicken, milk, beef, or fabric) and trace its journey from source to supermarket, including environmental impacts. 
  • Compare conventional farming/fishing with higher-welfare or sustainable approaches (e.g., cost, quality, environmental impact). 
  • Create posters or digital campaigns encouraging people to buy sustainable products, researching products to find supporting facts. 

KS4 

  • Debate whether sustainability is the responsibility of government, businesses, or consumers. 
  • Audit your own household’s shopping and assess how sustainable/traceable the products are. Then suggest improvements.