Food as a context for Learning for Sustainability

Published 01/01/2017.  Last updated 09/07/2025
sourcePractice exemplars schoolHealth and Wellbeing (HWB) categoryLearning for Sustainability

In this video, staff and pupils from St. Eunan’s Primary, Clydebank, describe how applying for a Food for Thought grant to keep hens in school has provided an interdisciplinary learning context that has supported the development of their whole school approach to learning for sustainability.

Reflective questions

  • Does your school have existing space to facilitate 'live' learning?

  • If not, how could you adapt your existing premises to introduce 'live' learning?

  • Which of the Sustainable Development Goals could be targeted through undertaking a project such as this?

Food as a context for Learning for Sustainability

Published 01/01/2017.  Last updated 09/07/2025
sourcePractice exemplars schoolHealth and Wellbeing (HWB) categoryLearning for Sustainability

In this video, staff and pupils from St. Eunan’s Primary, Clydebank, describe how applying for a Food for Thought grant to keep hens in school has provided an interdisciplinary learning context that has supported the development of their whole school approach to learning for sustainability.

Reflective questions

  • Does your school have existing space to facilitate 'live' learning?

  • If not, how could you adapt your existing premises to introduce 'live' learning?

  • Which of the Sustainable Development Goals could be targeted through undertaking a project such as this?