Tesco’s Farm To Fork Trails Proving A Great Success With Local Schools

Primary school children from the Beverley area have been learning about where food comes from through Tesco’s Farm to Fork trails, which forms part of retailer’s Eat Happy Project.

The initiative has been set up at Tesco stores nationwide, and the trails are designed to help children find out more about the food on their plate and how it gets there.

Tesco’s Morton Lane store has been welcoming schoolchildren since the project started in April this year and so far pupils from Lockington, Walkington, St Mary’s and Leconfield have all taken part.

Each trail lasts for two hours and a specialist guide, assisted by colleagues across the store, help the children discover where their food comes from through demonstrations, discussions and curriculum-linked materials.

Previous classes have had the chance to go into the store’s bakery and learn how to bake bread, been shown where all the different fruit and vegetables come from and learnt all about the wonderful varieties of fish and cheese.

Farm to Fork Trail Leader Emma Marks said;

“We’ve had some fantastic feedback from the schools, and the children have had a great time touching, tasting and exploring various foods as well as having lots of fun around the store.”

Craig Elder, Assistant Head Teacher at Leconfield Primary School, whose year six pupils visited the store on 30th September said;

“It was a great experience for all the children and staff alike; they learnt lots about the different food groups, origins of their food and the amount of work that goes into preparing food ready for sale. However, the highlight was tasting a variety of foods-even chocolate cheese!”

Tesco would be pleased to welcome other local schools to take part in the initiative. Please contact Emma on 01482 408720 or else via e-mail at beverley@eathappyproject.com