COMPLIMENTARY AUDIT

Unlock Your School's Potential with a Customised Behaviour & Learning Audit

Unpack the vital link between food, learning, behaviour, and explore integrating school literacy can improve your schools performance and support your school improvement plans. 

Your Behaviour and Learning Audit is a transformative session designed specifically for school leaders, assistant principals, and wellbeing coordinators. 

In just 45-60 minutes, we will delve into the powerful connection between food and its impact on learning, behaviour, school performance and sustainability. This audit not only helps unpack these vital links but also showcases how integrating food literacy can be a strategic tool in achieving your school's improvement goals.

Join your Certified Instructor and complete your audit to unlock the potential within your school community.

In this valuable audit, we will cover:

Assess Your Concerns

We’ll start by exploring the specific challenges your school is facing by delving into areas such as student behaviour, concentration, absenteeism and more.

Through a structured audit, you'll rate your level of concern across various metrics, enabling us to identify the most critical issues impacting your school environment.

Identify Opportunities

Together, we'll evaluate existing initiatives like breakfast club, brain breaks and school canteen, plus consider the goals on your school improvement plan.

This process will highlight opportunities to strengthen these initiatives and uncover additional resources that can enhance your school's overall performance.

Support Your Goals

We will explore different options to support your school's specific goals and based on the initiatives you already have planned or are planning for the following year.

We will draw on proven strategies and insights we've gained from our experience of collaborating with schools across Australia over the past decade.

About your Presenter – Belinda Smith

Having personally experienced the impact food had on her depressed husband and anxious daughter’s ability to regulate their mood and participation in day-to-day life, speaker, and author, Bel Smith is on a mission to raise awareness that nutrition is at the heart of health, learning, behaviour, resilience, productivity and protecting the planet.

Bel Smith is one of Australia’s leading independent voices for Children’s Health, Author of The Lunchbox Effect, founder of The Root Cause and creator of Making Friends With Food by The Root Cause™.

Bel travelled Australia for 2.5 years visiting 100 schools, communities and businesses, empowering children, parents, teachers, and teams to make better food choices. Her programs have now reached over 260 schools and 60,000 children. She has been featured on Australian national and regional TV and radio, has a weekly family wellness segment on ABC Radio Broken Hill and her work has been mentioned in Australian Parliament.

Bel loves supporting forward thinking leaders in schools to create lifelong nourishing friendships with food. 

The Root Cause is a trusted education partner, with more than a decade of experience collaborating with schools.
We keep things fun, while sparking conversations about food, health impacts, education, sustainability, and the environment.

Partner with us as we guide you on your journey to empower your whole school community. We meet you wherever you are and take you to where you'd like to be. 


The Root Cause acknowledges the Traditional Owners of Country throughout Australia.
We recognise the continuing connection to lands, waters and communities.
We pay our respect to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures; and to Elders past, present and future,
for they hold the memories, traditions, the culture and hopes of Indigenous Australia.