Resources for schools
Our fully curriculum-aligned resources give you everything you need to teach food, fibre and bean-based learning with confidence — including structured lesson plans, clear PowerPoints, assemblies, teacher notes, activity sheets and engaging videos for pupils, staff and your wider school community.
Designed to meet the National Curriculum for England and the Curriculum for Excellence across Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, they’re enriched by inspiring partnerships with Leiths Education, and TastEd, bringing fresh expertise straight into your classroom.
National Curriculum for England and the Curriculum for Excellence across Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland
Sciences/World Around Us: Animals, including Humans (KS1& 2), Living things and their habitats (KS1) and Plants (KS1 and KS2) lifecycles)
Design and Technology/Technologies: Cooking and Nutrition
RSE and HE (Personal Development) -Primary Health and Wellbeing – Healthy Eating Core competencies for children and young people.
Look below for a full programme guide, a guide to send to parents, assembly, lesson plans, cookalong activities from Leiths Education, activity sheets and arts & crafts.
Guides
Download our guides to running the programme here:
Schools’ Guide
Everything you need to know about the Discover Beans programme is included in this guide. It’s the best place to start and to share with colleagues.
Parents & Carers Guide
Send our digital flyer home to parents and carers at the start of the programme, so they can make the most of the online expert resources we have to help them to get their families eating more fibre and more beans.
Social Media Toolkit
A handy guide with details and suggestions for sharing your amazing bean moments on social media + a collection of images and videos you can share.
Design Kit
Here’s a full design kit & style guide for making your own assets including illustrations, backgrounds and fonts.
Assembly
Last year’s assembly was a hit with schools:
Discover Beans Assembly
Our Discover Beans Assembly is a great way to get things started. Featuring Sam the Explorer challenging the children to go on a bean hunt. Click the button for the PowerPoint with the video embedded and the assembly script. Please do adapt as suits your plans.
Lesson plans
Designed to meet the National Curriculum for England and the Curriculum for Excellence across Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, and Food teaching in Primary Schools, this year they are enriched by inspiring partnerships with Leiths Education, bringing fresh expertise straight into your classroom.
NEW for 2026: This autumn, pupils can answer the call to action to become Bean Explorers as they go on a journey to discover beans both in the school lunch hall and in the classroom.
Our brand‑new videos complete with accompanying lesson plans and activities, bring the fibre superpower of beans to life — showing how these bean heroes help tummies stay full, brains stay focused, and gut microbes stay happy.
KS1 (P1-P3) Discover beans – An introduction to beans
Pupils to explore the many types of beans available , where to find them and the tasty meals they appear in.
Lesson plan, PowerPoint, activity sheets and all resources available to download
Linked to National Curriculum / Curriculum for Excellence (Wales Scotland/ NI)
Science/ The World Around Us: Animals including Humans, Plants (lifecycles)
Design & Technology/Technologies: Cooking and Nutrition
RSE and HE (Personal Development) – Primary Health and Wellbeing – Healthy Eating
Geography/ Social Studies: provenance, food miles
Core competencies for children and young people
KS2 (P4-P7) Discover Beans – the science, nutrition and geography of beans
Pupils to explore and research the different types of beans we eat and how and why they help the planet.
Lesson plan, PowerPoint, activity sheets and all resources available to download
Linked to National Curriculum / Curriculum for Excellence (Wales Scotland/ NI)
Sciences/ The World Around Us/ Animals including Humans, Plants (lifecycles)
Geography/ Social Studies : sustainability, provenance, food miles
Design & Technology/Technologies : Cooking and Nutrition , IT research skills
RSE and HE ( Personal Development) -Primary Health and Wellbeing – Healthy Eating
Core competencies for children and young people
English oracy, research and presentation skills
KS1 (P1-3) Feel the Fibre – the Great Gut Safari
Pupils to explore what is fibre, why it matters and the types of food that can keep our stomachs healthy and happy.
Lesson plan, PowerPoint, activity sheets and all resources available to download
Linked to National Curriculum / Curriculum for Excellence (Wales Scotland/ NI)
Science/ The World Around Us Animals including Humans, Plants (lifecycles)
Design & Technology Cooking and Nutrition
RSE and HE ( Personal Development) -Primary Health and Wellbeing – Healthy Eating
Core competencies for children and young people
KS2 (P4-7) Feel the Fibre – the Great Gut Safari
Pupils to explore what is fibre, why fibre matters, and simple ways to add more fibre to your daily diet.
Lesson plan, Video, PowerPoint, activity sheets and all resources available to download
Linked to National Curriculum / Curriculum for Excellence (Wales Scotland/ NI)
Science/ The World Around Us Animals including Humans, Plants (lifecycles)
Design & Technology/Technologies Cooking and Nutrition
RSE and HE ( Personal Development) -Primary Health and Wellbeing – Healthy Eating
Core competencies for children and young people
Here’s our 2025 lesson plans, our survey of teachers shows they found them effective:
EYFS: Let’s explore beans!
A carousel of activities and ideas for introducing and exploring Beans in EYFS.
With ideas linked to all the ELGs and the Characteristics of Effective Teaching and Learning.
ALL YEARS: Big Bean Boost warm up
A bean inspired warm up for all years for PE lessons or simply when you need a movement break.
Linked to PE National curriculum.
ALL YEARS: Supermarket pulse mission
Help your pupils become real-life “Pulse Patrol” detectives with this downloadable task sheet to investigate Beans in the supermarkets.
Links to Maths, English, Geography and Science.
YEARS 1 – 4: The Big Bean Boost Orchestra
Pupils to explore rhythm, tempo and patterns in this Big Bean Boost orchestra lesson with percussion instruments.
Linked to Music National Curriculum.
KEY STAGE 1: Bean mandala art
Pupils to explore and create Mandala patterns using beans and clay.
Linked to Art National Curriculum.
KEY STAGE 2: Beans, art and Arcimboldo
Pupils to explore the use of food in Arcimboldo artworks and create their own portrait using beans.
Linked to Art National Curriculum.
KEY STAGE 2: Beans, art and Pointillism
Pupils to explore the paintings of Georges Seurat and Pointillism and create their own using lentils.
Linked to Art National Curriculum.
Cookalong with Leiths Education
Bring the joy of cooking into your classroom with a bean-themed cookalong from Leiths Education! Packed with flavour and easy-to-follow steps, these hands-on sessions are designed so any teacher can lead with confidence—no prior cooking experience needed. Leiths Education have provided expert video guidance and ready-to-use resources, including ingredient and equipment lists. Your pupils will be peeling, tasting, and learning in no time.
Curriculum links to Design & Technology/Technologies: Cooking and Nutrition, RSE and HE (Personal Development) – Primary Health and Wellbeing – Healthy Eating and core competencies for children and young people.
There are two recipes—Mexican Rainbow Wrap and Rainbow Bean Poke Bowl— bursting with colour, nutrition and suitable for all.
If your pupils love cooking along head over to Leiths Education for even more hands-on food fun.
KS2 (P4-7) Rainbow Bean Poke Bowl
Perfect your peeling skills and build a brilliant Rainbow Bean Poke Bowl — a fresh, crunchy, bean packed dish that proves just how easy (and tasty) it is to make veg the star of lunch or dinner.
KS1 (P1-3) Mexican Bean Wrap
Get peeling and create something brilliant — this Mexican Bean Wrap is quick, colourful and packed with power. A tasty lunch or dinner that shows just how easy it is to bang in some beans.
Activity Sheets
Download these fun bean activity sheets
Boogie
Doodles, Top 5s and a cheeky chickpea challenge.
Choppa
A very tasty code cracker, word game and spot the difference.
Rumble
Doodles, menu fun and a delicious drawing challenge.
Scoopa
Go colour crazy with a brilliant bean mandala, future-predicting and joke puzzle fun.
Squidge
Step by step drawing, search and find and a very beany wordsearch.
Toot
Imaginative bean art and super silly sentence builders.
Colour, stick and draw!
Get creative with these monstrously cool activities
Boogie
Choppa
Rumble
Scoopa
Squidge
Toot
Bean mandala
Print out and spend some relaxing beany time colouring in!
Make your own monsters!
Use your stickers to make your own monsters, or just draw your own details in and add some colour.
