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=Healthy Eating = =In a country where you can find a Mc Donald's more easily than you can find a library, it is important to learn about healthy eating and why healthy eating is important. There are many food choices that we have to make every day and it is important that you make healthy decisions. We have designed a unit for the classroom that will teach you not only about healthy eating and healthy food, but also about the importance of healthy eating in schools. It is essential that growing children are provided with healthy food options and that they understand why healthy eating is important. Therefore over the next six weeks we will be looking into healthy eating in school. We will be evaluating the things that we eat, learning how to improve foods that we eat and creating and new and improved canteen menu that is full of healthy food options. =

**WHAT?** Students of year 5, you have been chosen out of hundreds of students to design a new canteen menu for the school.

**WHEN?** Over the next several weeks you will be working with Miss Davies and Miss Peebles.

**WHO?** Some of the tasks will require you to work in pairs, others you will do on your own.

**WHY?** Because you are the future, students in your class have the chance to make a difference and provide the opportunity to create a menu that encourages the school to make healthy eating decisions.

**HOW?** By following the directions of this wiki space you will discover and learn everything you possible can about healthy eating in schools, you will learn about why it is important, what sort of foods are on menus and how to make food healthier. All of this will prepare you to be able to create your own healthy canteen menu and understand exactly why you are doing it!