Cooking in Yorkshire

INTERVENTION: Participants will be children aged 7 ‐ 9 years in UK primary schools. Schools based in North Yorkshire (in Harrogate or Selby) will be eligible to volunteer or self‐select to participate. Cluster randomization is at the school level. Randomization at the cluster level will be undertaken after baseline measures are collected so that stratified sampling can be used to minimize the imbalance between covariate means. Randomization will be to either the PhunkyFoods intervention group or to the Control (no intervention) group at a ratio of 1:1. There will be no masking for school and child participants, as the intervention is an experiential teaching programme and therefore cannot be masked. The PhunkyFoods intervention is a flexible programme of options for schools to select from, including whole school assemblies, staff training, classroom activities, school food policy development, after school clubs, student ambassadors, child and parent cook clubs and parent information events. CONDITION: Healthy dietary choices and prevention of obesity ; Nutritional, Metabolic, Endocrine PRIMARY OUTCOME: ; 1. Food literacy measured by the Tool for Food Literacy Assessment in Children (TFLAC ‐ UK) at baseline (T1) and at 8 months post‐intervention delivery (T2); 2. Cooking skills measured by the CooC11 child survey at baseline (T1) and at 8 months post‐intervention delivery (T2); SECONDARY OUTCOME: Fruit and vegetable intake measured using the Child Assessment of Diet Evaluation Tool (CADET) at baseline (T1) and at 8 months post‐intervention delivery (T2) INCLUSION CRITERIA: Children aged 7 – 9 years in mainstream primary schools