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Robert Burns Interactive
A new Robert Burns Interactive website from the Scottish Government
The spirit and personality of Robert Burns has been brought to life through a new online space celebrating the National Bard’s work, history and global significance.
The Scottish Government, working with The Leith Agency, Whitespace Design Agency and Gate Films, has created an interactive guide to celebrating Burns Night.
The virtual Robert Burns guides viewers through different sections painting the Burns story in a contemporary light. Go to the website
National food discussion begins
The Scottish Government launched this week a national discussion on food.
This is the first step towards a national policy on food, designed to boost jobs and business, help make food healthier and minimise the environmental impact of food production, manufacture and retail.
The discussion paper, ‘Choosing The Right Ingredients’, covers a wide range of potential areas for change.
Hungry for Success – Further Food for Thought
HM Inspectorate of Education (HMIE) has now published a second progress report on the Hungry for Success initiative.
Hungry for Success set out seven principles, supported by recommendations to improve the quality of school meals in Scotland. This second report evaluates progress up to July 2007 in implementing these key recommendations in primary and special schools, as well as reporting for the first time on progress made in the secondary sector.
This report finds that Hungry for Success has been successful in meeting many of its aims. There have been notable improvements in the quality of school meals in Scotland. Improvements in the nutritional quality of meals have been accompanied by greater encouragement and opportunity to eat healthily. In particular, primary schools have continued to make good progress in achieving improvements and establishing healthy eating firmly within the context of heath promotion.
Progress in secondary schools has been slower. The Foreword to the report indicates that ‘in part this relates to a lack of priority and urgency in implementing Hungry for Success in secondary schools. In part it relates to the influence of adolescent culture with its increased peer, societal and commercial pressures and greater freedom to go beyond school grounds at lunchtimes’. For further information see the report here.
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