Tick off Bronze, Silver and Gold for... Holding a summer fair

 28 June 2011 – Have you held or are you thinking of holding a summer fair? Organising a food-themed event for parents and the local community is a great way to involve parents in cooking or growing activities as well as sell food from the school kitchen and/or garden. And you could find yourself ticking off ALL of the Bronze criteria for Community and Partnerships.

Criteria

• Bronze: We hold an annual event on a food theme for our pupils, parents and the wider community.
• Bronze: We actively encourage our pupils and their parents to grow and cook their own produce at home.
• Bronze: Our pupils share Food for Life Partnership learning with local schools, the wider community and other partners.
• Silver: We hold events to involve parents and/or the wider community in growing and cooking activities.
• Gold: Our parents can buy or collect organic and/or local produce at our school, or we direct them to alternative local outlets.

Resources

This template invite and poster on the Food for Life Partnership website is available for you to use to promote your community events or lunches. You can replace the images with your own photos and school logo.

School blogs

Holton Le Clay Junior School in Lincolnshire raffled off a hamper full of produce from the school garden – such as potatoes, herbs, strawberries and tomato plants – as well as school-cooked goodies from the cooking club at their summer fair last week. Read the blog.

The Snag team at Old Hall Junior School in Derbyshire has made up 47 cookie jars to sell at the summer fair. Each jar contains the right amount of ingredients for making cookies and costs £2. Read what the Snag members have to say in their blog.