A South African school, St Joseph of Royal Mount High School in Lesotho has joined together with its Global partner school, St Cenydd Comprehensive School in Wales, to compare their different picnicking habits. The activity came about as part of St Cenydd's drive to develop certain areas of their curriculum, such as global citizenship and sustainable development as well as firming international links with their partner school.

The pupils who comprise the Eco-Committee of  St Elizabeth's Primary School, Hamilton, have such a flair for entrepreneurship that no doubt they will appear on Junior Apprentice  before too long.  As they wait to hear if their application for a fourth Green Flag, a coveted award from the Eco-schools programme, has been successful, it is only right to honour such a pro-active and focused team of young people, led by enthusiastic teacher Christine Emmett.

Pupils from Malsis preparatory school, in Cross Hills, North Yorkshire, have christened their new cookery room with cooking equipment they won in British Food Fortnight's School Challenge last year and help from two award-winning chefs. The co-owner of The Bull at Broughton, Michelin starred chef Nigel Haworth, adapted some mouth-watering canapé recipes for the school, whilst the award-winning Head Chef of The Bull, Richard Upton, helped the pupils to put them into practice.

Fourth-year Home-Economic students from Meldrum Academy, Oldmeldrum have been given a fascinating insight into milk and rapeseed oil production.

5-a-day, the British way was the theme for the delicious lunch created by pupils of Spring Common School, a special school in Huntingdon.

Trenance Infant School in Cornwall invited staff from the local Crantock bakery to teach over 240 pupils how to make a Cornish pasty, a dish which was born out of the local area.

Students opened a restaurant for the day at at Ruswarp Church of England Primary School in Yorkshire, using seasonal vegetables grown in the school garden.

From cookery demonstrations and visits by local celebrity chefs to dressing-up and sourcing local produce, here are just a few of the exciting activities pupils have been involved in for British Food Fortnight 2009.

Delicious fish dishes using seasonal produce were created by Food Technology students in Year 11 at St Bartholomew's School in Berkshire, whilst the Nursery and Year 1 pupils at Marlborough House School in Kent enjoyed visiting local farms as part of British Food Fortnight 2009

This month we look at what pupils at Dunning Primary School in Perthsire and Bury Church of England Primary School in West Sussex did during British Food Fortnight

Year 10 students at Aylsham High School jumped at the oppotunity to work with the chef and catering staff at The National Trust's Blickling Hall in Norfolk as part of an 'Apple Dash'.

Planning a locally sourced meal triggered a plethora of food projects at St Francis Church of England Primary School in Oxford.  More than sixty children were involved in preparing for the Local Lunch.  The menu was Vegetable Soup with homemade bread followed by Apple and Blackberry Pie.  It was served to fifty staff and pupils as an alternative to school dinner.  In fact some pupils were so disappointed not to be able to cook that they cleared up afterwards!