Tick off Bronze, Silver and Gold for... Sharing your Food for Life Partnership activities with other schools

 17 May 2011 – Do you share your Food for Life Partnership activities with other schools? Passing on your skills and knowledge through cooking, growing and farm links workshops and/or inviting schools in to witness the fantastic work you are doing is a great way to involve the wider community.

Criteria
• Bronze: We share Food for Life Partnership learning with local schools, the wider community and other partners.
• Silver: Our pupils share Food for Life Partnership learning with local schools, the wider community and other partners.
• Gold: We host regular visits about the Food for Life Partnership from other schools and stakeholders.

Resources

This ‘Pass it on’ event toolkit includes a checklist, agenda guidance, press release template, a sample evaluation form and lots more useful information to help your school organise a Pass it on event.

For ideas on how to involve parents and the local community in cooking and growing activities take a look at our cooking and growing activity resource.

Roast Dinner Day

After the whopping success of last year’s Roast Dinner Day, you are invited to take part in a second Roast Dinner Day on the 12 October. To take part, all schools have to do is serve a roast dinner and invite parents and the local community in to enjoy the meal. Check out these Roast Dinner Day recipes, poster and growing tips to make sure those vegetables are ready to harvest and serve on the day!

The first 200 schools to sign up will receive 10 free garden trowels and two packets of seeds courtesy of Harfield Tableware. Email Natasha Moseley, our events officer, if you would like to be involved: nmoseley@soilassociation.org

Case study

Four flagship schools in the east of England successfully ran a programme of Pass It On events at very low cost and with dazzling success. Forty schools attended across the four events. Read the case study.