Summary: The Scottish Curriculum For Excellence

Above all, The Scottish Curriculum for Excellence (CfE) requires all teachers to cover experiences and outcomes from health and wellbeing that address information on food and nutrition. In the early and first level experiences and outcomes teachers are required to educate pupils on foods that contribute to a healthy diet and how different foods keep children healthy. In addition to this, healthy eating is embedded within all areas in the curriculum such as in literacy, maths and physical education (Education Scotland, 2014). Through the teaching of CfE, “children will acquire knowledge and skills to make healthy food choices and help to establish life long healthy eating habits” (The Scottish Government, 2014). More over, children will learn about the origin of different foods and receive the opportunity to choose, taste and prepare different foods (Education Scotland, 2010). The CfE experiences and outcomes ensure that all children are provided with the correct knowledge and understanding on the importance of healthy eating and in addition, teachers are able to provide children …show more content…
(2006) carried out research on Latino parents who monitored their children’s diet. The research concluded that parents who supervised their child’s fat intake were less likely to have children who were overweight in 2 years than parents who did not supervise their child’s fat intake. The findings also showed that parents who monitored their child’s sedentary activities and kept them to a minimum, helped prevent their children from becoming obese. Additionally, parents who reinforced the importance of healthy eating had an increase of children eating healthy snacks. Overall, this research highlights the importance of parental influence and supervision on a child’s health. It emphasises the influence parents can have on a child’s diet and furthermore, the precautionary measures parents can implement in order to prevent their child from becoming overweight or