The Hungry Ears Programme
A Whole School Approach
Hungry Ears is a ready-to-use food education programme for children aged 3–7, designed to make healthy eating fun, memorable and meaningful.
Through 30 original video stories featuring Magnolia the harvest mouse, children explore fruit, vegetables and seasonal foods through storytelling, sensory play, tasting and creative activities.
Aligned with EYFS and KS1 frameworks, the programme helps schools deliver engaging food education with minimal preparation, while supporting wider wellbeing and healthy schools approaches.
Weekly food themes can be shared with families and dining halls to encourage a consistent whole-school food culture.
Become a Wellbeing Leader
Hungry Ears supports schools in delivering meaningful food education while helping to evidence wellbeing provision across the school.
To minimise workload, Hungry Ears includes a simple reporting tool to support evidence gathering throughout the year. Schools can record curriculum coverage, pupil engagement, teacher observations, parent involvement and healthy eating activities in one place.
Through a whole-school approach to food culture, schools can build positive habits that pupils, staff, governors and parents can see in action; from the classroom, to the dining hall and into the home.
This helps schools demonstrate provision, celebrate impact and support wider wellbeing approaches, including frameworks such as Well Schools, school self-evaluation and Ofsted Personal Development evidence.
What you receive
Your annual Hungry Ears subscription gives schools access to:
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30 original video stories: following Magnolia on her seasonal food adventures.
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Ready-to-use lesson plans and downloadable activities: curriculum-linked resources designed to support teachers and save valuable preparation time.
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Teacher tasting guidance: to help children get the most from sensory food exploration.
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Weekly food themes for SCHOOL and HOME: helping classrooms, dining halls and families create a shared healthy eating culture.
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Reporting and reflection tools: to help support evidence gathering across the year.
Annual subscription: £299 per school
(Group discounts available for MATs and Local Authorities).
Designed to fit flexibly into the school day; during lessons, assemblies or snack time.
Schools can involve their kitchen team by linking weekly themes. For example, serving apple crumble during “Apple Week” or sweetcorn during “Sweetcorn Week”, helping children connect classroom learning with real-food experiences.
*Schools provide their own fruit and vegetables for tasting sessions using simple, seasonal ingredients that are widely available and budget-friendly.
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