A Carlisle primary school pupil has been awarded a top prize in a national competition after designing a new food for children.
Maeron Rai from Brook Street Primary School was a national runner-up in the ‘Design a Healthy New Food’ competition, organised by Discovery Education and Switzerland’s Alimentarium Foundation. Open to primary schools across the UK, the competition asked pupils to design a nutritious food, meal or snack, and create a fun advert to promote it.
Maeron, 9, impressed judges with her design for ‘Fantastic Fantsdry’, a special bread made with vegetables and topped with colourful flowers! The delicious loaf was part of a two-course meal invented by Maeron, featuring healthy ingredients and colourful details to appeal to young eaters.
As part of her prize, Maeron’s advert for the meal will feature on the award-winning Discovery Education Espresso website. Accessed by thousands of schools as a daily learning resource, the advert will encourage children everywhere to make healthier eating choices. Maeron has also been presented with a special certificate and goody bag.
Nicola Bardgett, Maeron’s teacher at Brook St Primary School said: “Maeron’s design showed great imagination and we’re proud that she was chosen as one of the national runners up! Our pupils really enjoyed taking part in the competition and they learned a lot about nutrition and healthy eating. They’re excited to see Maeron’s amazing advert online!”
Christine Major, Director of Educational Partnerships at Discovery Education said: “It’s never been more important to educate children about nutrition, and to help them make healthy choices. We were really impressed with the calibre of competition entries and especially the creativity of Maeron’s entry. We hope that our partnership with the Alimentarium Food Museum will ignite children’s interest in the science of eating and bring nutrition to life in a fun and accessible way.”
The competition was launched as part of a 3-year partnership between Discovery Education and Switzerland’s Alimentarium Foundation, delivering nutrition resources to primary schools across the country via Discovery Education Espresso’s award-winning digital learning service. Exciting new content launching this month will help children to learn about food sustainability and the environment. From farm to fork, pupils will explore how the food they consume is reared, grown or caught – both today and throughout history.
To find out more about Discovery Education visit www.discoveryeducation.co.uk. Schools interested in a free trial of the Discovery Education Espresso service can request one here.
