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Join the Real Food Rebellion: Give Your School the Edge

Imagine a classroom where your KS3 students don’t just learn about food. They outsmart the junk. They make choices that matter. That’s the promise of our ready-to-teach, evidence-backed, PSHE-ready six-lesson pack.

We believe young people deserve better than products engineered in factories. Because real food fuels brains, bodies and real futures.

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What if your students actually understood real food?

In this short film, Henry Wood speaks directly to teachers about the reality students are growing up in – a food system designed to boost profit not health. Real Food Rebellion gives schools the tools to change that.

If you want students to understand food before it harms them: Start here.

Background

Young people aren’t the problem, they’re the solution

Give them the truth about food – the science, the health impact, the food system story – and they’ll make better choices than most adults. Our mission is to equip a new generation with the clarity and confidence to say: “I want real food, thanks.”

of teens want clearer advice on how to eat better
75%
want food labels to be transparent
78%
don't get enough advice from school
2/3

Gen Z is waking up. They’re demanding honesty, not empty slogans. They want real food, real information, and real change.
If the food industry won’t step up, this generation may force their hand. Source: European Institute of Innovation & Technology

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Let’s be honest. The world of food is noisier, faster, and more confusing than ever. Most of what’s marketed to young people is churned out in factories with ingredients that you need a degree in chemistry to understand. And the uncomfortable truth? Teenagers now eat at least two-thirds of their daily calories from ultra-processed products than real food.

More young people are now obese, diagnosed with Type II Diabetes and suffer mental health crises than ever before. And what we eat, shapes more than our weight. It affects energy, focus, mood and how well students attain in school. And there’s plenty of clinical evidence to support this.

If schools don’t step in, the food system will keep stepping over young people. Start here.

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We’re the rebel team from UK charity Public Health Collaboration (1171887 / SC052248), which is dedicated to improving public health and saving the NHS money through lifestyle changes.

The Real Food Rebellion programme was developed with secondary school leaders, NHS doctors, dietitians and scientists working at the frontline of nutritional and metabolic health – people who see, every day, what the modern food system actually does to young people. And real life tested with over 700 students.

 

Don’t take our word for it. Hear from some of our school rebel leaders:

The John Warner School, Hertfordshire

“We started with the Real Food Rebellion this week with our potential GCSE Food and Nutrition students, and they have really enjoyed it so far.  It has opened up to lots of questions and really got them thinking.  I am now teaching my students in a completely different way, and I focus on their future and how detrimental ultra-processed foods are to their future health. We have completed the first PowerPoint lesson and it was a great success. We will definitely be taking this forward to teach next year with our new Year 9’s.”

Ysgol Aberconwy, Wales

“The feedback from the sessions so far has been incredibly positive so I was looking to roll this out to the whole of KS3 to address concerns raised about food and nutrition by our School Health Research Network (SHRN) report.”

Hungerhill, South Yorkshire

‘The students were pretty positive about the impact it had on them. Very few of them knew what an ultra-processed food was, and by the end of the lesson, all could identify what they are and state something they had learned about them. Many of the students said it shocked them and would make them think twice before buying.”

 

If you believe schools should be part of the solution, this is where you start.