What is Food and Fun?
Food and Fun is a school-based education programme that provides food and nutrition education, physical activity, enrichment sessions and healthy meals to children during the school summer holidays.
Starting as a pilot run by Cardiff Council in 2015, Food and Fun has developed into a national, fully funded Welsh Government programme administered by the Welsh Local Government Association (WLGA).
Starting Blocs is very proud to be supporting the Food & Fun programme in 2025.
If you are looking to book on to our free online Food and Fun teacher training session .Or would like to register an interest in paying for an athletics coach to come into your school.
Starting Blocs Food and Fun Offer 2025
We are looking at two different offer types for this year’s Food and Fun Programme.
- Free online training for Teachers/Teaching Support to learn the basics of using our game cards and some focused coaching strategies. This offer will also include free access to a selection of our game cards so that you can run your sessions.
- Paid coaches will run your sessions for you. There are limited numbers of coaches, so please enquire about availability. The price is upon request.
Resources
Once you have signed up for the Online Teacher Training, you will receive a digital copy of a selection of our game cards. The Online session will explain how to use these cards as well as giving coaching pointers to look out for.
These game cards are user friendly and very easy to follow. They break each game down into easy to understand explanations of how to run each game and then adjust it to your children’s needs.
The elements on the cards are:
- Equipment Required
(All simple sports equipment found in schools) - How the rules of the game work.
- Teaching points to look out for.
- Differentiation.
- STEP instructions on how to make each game accessible for all.
- Coloured Letters.
These link to our 10 Physical Literacy Competencies. Each game card covers multiple competencies, and the selection of cards you will receive will address all 10 of these skills.
