Four Rosyth schools engage in the EATS Educates program, fostering a love for nature, healthy eating, and teaching vital life skills by growing food.
The EATS Educates project teaches kids outside, promoting healthy eating and care for nature. Young people plant, harvest, cook, and eat veggies. Schools now have gardens and growing areas, including fifteen raised beds for the children.
The project shows kids where food comes from and teaches them to care for the environment. Joe Oxley-Glenister works with EATS Rosyth.
He said the kids are eager to eat fresh food. The project teaches kids about our food, helps nature, and gives kids responsibility.
EATS Educates teachers give weekly lessons, and these lessons match the Scottish curriculum. Lynn Colagiacomo leads King’s Road Primary; she said the sessions help the pupils a lot.
Activities are easy for all learners and build important skills for life. Kids enjoy the outdoor lessons, working well alone and with each other. Each week, they gather and share what they learned, telling the whole school during assembly.
This helps everyone feel excited about outdoors. So far, kids have sown wheat, onions, and beans.
They’ve also built homes for bugs and hedgehogs. Forth Hedgehog Hospital gave two boxes. Camdean Primary kids put them in place. The boxes give hedgehogs a safe place to sleep safely during winter.