Tick off Bronze for... Offering taster sessions for parents and carers

29 November 2011 – Do you offer taster sessions for parents? Offering parents opportunities to taste the great food you’re serving will dispel myths about soggy semolina and help increase school meal take up. 

Food Leadership and school food culture criteria
Bronze: We consult with our pupils and parents on school meal improvements
Bronze: We keep parents informed of lunch menus and Food for Life Partnership activity and invite them to attend school lunches

Resources 

These sample questionnaires can be used as templates for asking parents, staff and pupils what they think of the school meals as they taste them!

This information sheet on packed lunches offers guidance on how to discourage parents from including unhealthy snacks in their lunchboxes, which is one of the criteria for achieving Silver.

School blogs

Potterhanworth Church of England Primary School in Lincolnshire arranged for people to sample school meals at a parents evening, which worked extremely well. Parents had something to do as they waited for their appointments, and they didn’t have to come to school especially for a school meal tasting session. Read the blog.