Welcome to The Curious Nutritionist!
Join me to transform and empower school communities to become food curious.
Curious Information for Schools
The Curious Nutritionist endeavors to support school communities to learn about food, bodies and health through online resources and products. This aims to provide practical and simple tools to enrich families and schools to build healthy relationships with food, promote physical activity and body positivity along with learning to navigate wider health messages.
Curious Information for Teachers
The Curious Nutritionist supports teachers and schools in understanding evidence based information about food and nutrition in a practical and realistic terms. Teacher professional learning, learning design as well as personal development is offered from a range of topics and can be tailored to suit your school’s needs.
Curious Information for Parents
The Curious Nutritionist delivers a variety of food, nutrition and health presentations to parents on childhood food relationships, nutrition and body esteem. The aim of these presentations is to assist parents and school communities in providing home-school links that promote health in practical and realistic ways.
Primary School Incursions
The Curious Nutritionist works with primary schools to provide nutrition and health programs that promote healthy eating through engaging students with practical ‘hands on’ learning experiences.
Curious Articles
Teachers and parents, let’s stop talking about lunch boxes
Teachers and Parents, It’s that time of year again! We’re approaching the start of the school year, which can bring about the parent lunch box
Who is to blame for lunch box policing?
The contents of a lunch box is a contentious issue. Parents battle with what to pack to meet school policy and guidelines; children don’t always
‘Healthy’ is what’s OUTSIDE the lunch box
Are you ready for it? It’s the beginning of the school year here in Australia and I’m holding my breath for the onslaught of the
What happens when a child’s teacher is the lunch box police?
Perspective of a teacher and nutritionist The beginning of the school year is the peak season for the lunch box debate. I’ve been a teacher
Modern day superheroes in PE lessons: empowerment or oppression
Just under three years ago I started a new role as a physical education specialist teacher. Like in my previous role as a classroom teacher,
Creating Calm Classroom Mealtimes
How to implement trauma-informed care when returning to school after isolation Trauma can have a long lasting physical and mental impact. Adverse experiences and events
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