Tipperary primary school teachers attend Food Dudes awards ceremony

Primary school teachers from Counties Clare and Tipperary, recently joined teaching colleagues from across the region for a Food Dudes Presentation Day to celebrate the achievements of completing their four-year participation in the award-winning Food Dudes Programme.

The four-year curriculum-linked programme, run by Bord Bia and funded by the EU, includes a year of intervention, followed by three in-school Food Dudes Weeks, aimed at promoting health eating habits amongst primary school children.

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The healthy eating programme encourages children to eat more fresh produce and is based on repeated tastings of fresh fruit and vegetables, rewards and positive role models.

This school year, Food Dudes, will deliver over 2.5 million portions of fresh fruit and vegetables to over 200,000 primary pupils right across Ireland.

More information about the Food Dudes Programme can be found at www.fooddudes.ie.

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Pictured are: Back Row (L-R) Trish Nugent, Maria O'Connor, Ailish O'Neill, Neill Crowley, Marie Whelan, Triona Dunne, Conor McKenna, Susan Frawley.

Front Row (L-R) Gill Mounsey, Patricia Cunningham, Patricia Cunningham, Patricia Cunningham, Patricia Cunningham, Monica Lillis, Monica Lillis.

Picture: MAXWELLS