The 2010 challenge has now closed
To view the 2010 Special Challenge winners gallery click here.
To enter the 2011 Active Kids Get Cooking Special Challenge watch out for the details which will be published on the website in the autumn with a closing date in April 2011.
The Active Kids Get Cooking Special Challenge is an annual cooking competition for primary, special and secondary school pupils across the UK.
It is also open to British schools abroad.
Each year the challenge requires pupils to create a healthy, innovative menu. The challenge always takes on a new focus and in the past has included:
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Impress your friends by designing and making a sustainable spread;
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Breakfast inspired from around the world;
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Local and regional food;
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Best of British with a twist;
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Tea-time snacks and meals;
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Dishes that promote the use of wholegrain and/or oily fish.
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The entry is quite simple and it does not create a lot of extra work for you. Each teacher chooses the entry to be submitted from their school. But every entry receives a special certificate claimed in the usual way. Why not make it special and have a local judging panel that includes your headteacher, the school cook or local chef
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There are prizes of £100 for the regional winners in England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales. The winners are invited to collect their cheque at a special celebration event in London. At this event they find out if they have become overall UK winner. We try to make it a day to remember for you and your pupils, so make sure you enter next year! Overall UK winners receive a prize of £500! For the last two years we have produced a cookery book of all the winning entries which was given to all those who attended the London event as a souvenir of the day. The book contains a selection of winning recipes and a copy can be downloaded by clicking on the image below.
2009 Winners cookery book
2010 Winners cookery book
Active Kids Get Cooking July 2010