Allergy Safe Food Lessons – Checklist for Schools
For children with allergies, food lessons provide and opportunity to explore how to plan, prepare and cook allergy-safe, nutritious meals. Having children with allergies in those classes also helps the wider student population recognise the challenges they face, and build awareness of ways they can take a role in keeping their friends safe.
Often teachers are forced to make the choice to keep children with allergies out of the classroom because of inadequate time to plan, budget and prepare – or insufficient space to keep the student safe. Often the only food teacher within a school, it can be hard to be heard, and for Headteachers, Governors and Academies it can be difficult to know what the right thing is to do.
This checklist provides a practical guide to ‘what good looks like’ in managing allergies safely in food lessons, and should be used to ensure all measures are put in place to ensure children with allergies can access this important part of the curriculum.
