Free webinar – Monday 9 March 2026, 7:00-8:00pm. Practical cookery from KS1–KS5: discover new Leiths courses, pricing, and how to bring exciting skills and delicious recipe-led learning into your school.
Free webinar – Monday 9 March 2026, 7:00-8:00pm. Practical cookery from KS1–KS5: discover new Leiths courses, pricing, and how to bring exciting skills and delicious recipe-led learning into your school.
Tell the children that you have forgotten how many seasons there are. Can anyone help you by holding up the correct number of fingers? Once four is established, discuss and explain the seasons with appropriate imagery as per class needs. Also unveil/draw a poster showing the four seasons with their months. The seasons are defined as spring (March, April, May), summer (June, July, August), autumn (September, October, November) and winter (December, January, February).
Show an image of a bare fruit tree in winter and a tree full of fruit. What is the same? What is different? Use the discussion to establish that different foods grow better in different seasons because the weather is different.
Look up a guide online to seasonal food in the UK to select a range of foods for each UK season (or month) to show the children. Ask children if they know in which season they were born. Group them according to ‘their’ season.
Tell children that they are going to find their ‘birthday food’. Look at the pupil sheet to show them how images of foods have been grouped according to the season in which they grow. They are going to list and/or draw ‘their’ foods. Show them how with ‘your’ foods.
Share examples of children’s work. Ask questions to reinforce key concepts and vocabulary. For example:
Finish with skills vocabulary/actions if you have time.
Art – Create 3-D trees with and without fruit
English – Apostrophes for singular possession e.g. The teacher’s season is autumn
Geography – Identify seasonal and daily weather patterns in the UK and the location of hot and cold areas in the world in relation to the Equator and the North and South Poles
Maths – Investigate temperature for different seasons
Music – Appreciate great composers: listen to Vivaldi’s ‘The Four Seasons’
Science – Observe changes across the four seasons
Create four areas on the playground/field, one each for spring, summer, autumn and winter. Call out a month and children to run to the correct season.
Give your school completely free access to the full Leiths Primary Curriculum through the Leiths Education Portal, delivering structured, hands-on cookery education across the primary years.
The full course includes:
A 32-session scheme of work across KS1 and KS2
Chef-led cook-along videos for every recipe
Detailed lesson plans, teaching notes and PowerPoints
Printable recipes, pupil worksheets and scalable shopping lists
Clear progression in cookery skills, food knowledge and safety
Cross-curricular links exploring seasonality, provenance and food choice
Everything needed to deliver high-quality cookery education, all in one place.
