Food and nutrition

The links below are a help to support food and nutrition.
Change4Life - Your first step to cooking healthier meals.
Food, a fact of life - Free resources for teaching young people aged 3-16 years about where food comes from, cooking and healthy eating.
Food for Life - Online Growing and Cooking courses
Get Set To Eat Fresh - For families and teachers, this is brought to life via Aldi, Team GB and ParalympicsGB. There are free resources and videos to download for recipe ideas, activities, competitions and more.
Healthy Futures Calderdale - To see some quick and easy low-cost meal ideas, visit their channel on YouTube: Budget Family Meals. Get Togethers are regular events that connect people from all ages and backgrounds through growing, cooking and eating good food.
Let's Eat - A Community Cookbook - If you love to cook or not, open this cookbook and give it a try, you will not regret it!
NHS - Eat Well Guide - This shows how much of what we eat should come from each food group to achieve a healthy, balanced diet.
Noah's Ark recipes with 'cooking on a budget' videos - The recipe booklet has 14 simple, healthy and low cost meals for a family to make. There are also videos to show you how each recipe is done.
Phunky Foods HAF free resources - The PhunkyFoods mission is to improve the dietary and physical activity habits of young children aged 2-11 years. It helps to create supportive learning environments for health in early years settings and primary schools. For more about this, visit: Phunky Foods recipes for cooking together.
- It is to help young people aged 5 - 14 to be curious and develop their love of healthy, sustainable food.
- Also, to give them the knowledge and skills they need to cook nutritious, low-cost meals.
Recipe Exchange - A way for everyone to share recipes and knowledge with the wider community.
School Food Plan - This plan is about good food and happiness. It is about the pleasures of growing, cooking and eating proper food. It is also about improving the academic performance of our children and the health of our nation.
Simply Veg - This website has great ideas, recipes, advice and resources to help support families to eat more veg.
Physical activities

Here you can find a list of resources to support physical activities.
- Active Calderdale.
- Sport England - Tips, advice and guidance on how to keep or get active. Join the Movement and share what you are doing during this time.
- NHS Physical Activity Guidelines.
- NICE physical activity recommended for children and young people.
Creative activities

Below is a list of resources to support creative and enriching activities.
Check out this video: Summer programme 2021.
For other events taking place during the school holidays, see: What's on.