Tick off Bronze for... Setting up a SNAG
7 June 2011 – By adapting your school meetings, you can create a School Nutrition Action Group (SNAG). It’s a vital step towards achieving your Bronze award.
Criteria
• Bronze: Our School Nutrition Action Group has led a review of food culture in our school, and actions have been agreed.
Resources
Check out our reference guide to those Frequently Asked Questions about setting up a SNAG.
These tips and activities are designed to help you involve and engage pupils in SNAGs.
School blog
The SNAG at Helpringham Primary School in Lincolnshire visited local businesses to find out where the school fruit comes from and how to make sausages. Read the blog.
Competition and prizes
Encourage SNAG members to blog about your school’s Food for Life Partnership activities and you could win a £10 voucher to spend at Delfland Nurseries. Simply log onto your school’s webpage to get blogging. If you have forgotten your password, email fflp@foodforlife.org.uk for a reminder.
There’s still time to enter the Film Education Take Action! Competition for a chance to win £1,000. To enter, schools are asked to devise a publicity campaign around food production, healthy eating, or growing, cooking and serving organic produce in school meals. The campaign could be in the form of a poster, letter and video. For more details visit the Film Education website. The deadline for submissions is Friday 17 June.
