Resources by NFU Education

Year 2 - Stage 1

In this activity children choose a name and logo for their pizza business. They then learn where a range of food that comes from and role play simple food chains. They then build their own food chains.

This is the first in a series of activities where children work towards an end goal of setting up a pizza...

Year 2 - Stage 2

In this activity children learn about what plants need to grow. They also find out where the ingredients to make pizza come from.  They then set up an investigation to see which plants grow the fastest during ‘The great ingredient race’ activity.

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Year 2 - Stage 3

In this activity children are introduced to the idea of market research as an engaging and meaningful context for Maths learning. Through this, they learn how to design a simple survey to understand their potential pizzeria customers’ preferences and construct a pictogram to display their findings.

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Year 2 - Stage 4

In this activity children think about eating healthily and the nutrients included in each food group. Using this learning, they are then challenged to use a range of seasonal ingredients to design a food flag pizza that they can sell in their British pizzeria businesses.

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Year 2 - Stage 5

In this activity children make the food flag pizza that they have designed using the ingredients that they have been growing. This is an excellent opportunity to apply maths in a real-life context.

This is the fifth in a series of activities where children work towards an end goal of setting up a pizza...

Year 2 - Stage 6

In this activity children design and make takeaway packaging and promotional material for their British pizzerias. Cross-curricular English opportunities are built in when the children plan and perform their own television advertisement.

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Year 2 - Stage 7

In this activity children set up their pizzerias and practise working with money and paying for items using different combinations of coins. To add more real-life context, this stage could be completed as an after school event that parents could be invited to.

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Year 2 project outline

This resource provides an overview of the Year 2 STEMterprise project, in which children learn about science, D&T, maths and English as they work through a series of activities with an end goal of setting up their own pizza business. There are 7 lessons in which children find out about the needs of all living...

Year 3 - Stage 1

This resource provides a lesson plan and supporting resources that help Year 3 pupils to identify and describe the different parts of flowering plants. Children will revise previous plant knowledge and the session gives plenty of opportunities for practical learning and the meaningful application of mathematical...