World Food Day 16th October 2025

Today Wednesday 15^th October 4^th class led the senior assembly. Our theme for this assembly was World Food Day which is on tomorrow Thursday 16^th October.

 We learned the following:

• World Food Day is about hunger in the world

• Lots of people around the world say “I am hungry!”

• The First World Food Day was held in 1979 which is 46 years ago.

• Over 8 million people go to bed hungry every night

• Food Security is where people can easily access safe and nutritious food

• There is enough food made each day to feed everybody on the planet

• World Food Day is when we think about people who are hungry

• Over 150 different countries celebrate World Food Day

• Ways we could help – shop local, have a meat free day etc.

• Malnutrition is when people become weak and sick when they cannot eat healthy and nutritious food

• Christians sometimes say a special prayer before they eat called “The Grace”

• Other cultures have different ways of saying thanks for food – for example Some people in Japan say, ‘I humbly receive’ before they eat as a way of saying thank you for their meal.

• Our prayer was thanks for water because if we do not have water there would be no harvest

We watched a short video which told us  the story of the miraculous catch of fish found in Luke 5:1-11.  We also watched this year’s Food Day video from FAO – Food and Agricultural Organisation of the United Nations.