Tick off Bronze for... Agreeing actions with the SNAG

22 November 2011 – Is your School Nutrition Action Group (SNAG) looking at ways to improve food culture in your school? Agreeing actions such as setting up a healthy tuck shop or visiting a local restaurant is a great way to get the children enthusiastic about food and will see you tick off one of the Bronze criteria.

Criteria
Bronze: Our School Nutrition Action Group has led a review of food culture in our school, and actions have been agreed.

Resources

These SNAG FAQs answer some of those niggling questions, including how to make sure meetings are interesting and worthwhile for all those involved.

These SNAG evaluation forms for primary and secondary schools can be used to find out if the meetings are working well.

Here are some suggested SNAG activities, including icebreakers to quizzes.

School blogs

Marlowe Academy, a secondary in Kent, bows down to pressure from the SNAG to put up notice boards around the dining area. Thanks to posters and photographs of FFLP events, everyone at the school knows about the Food for Life Partnership. Read the blog.

James in Year 6, and a member of the SNAG at Tillingbourne Primary School in Surrey, is excited about decorating the dining hall in the theme of an Indian restaurant for the school’s Indian Food Day. Read the blog.

Ingoldmells Primary School in Skegness has worked out an action plan for each of the SNAG members. Blade will be updating the school display; Dillon is going to write up the school blog, and Keaton is going to eat home grown strawberries! Read the blog.