This article has been brought to you by Slough Borough Council's Senior Programme Officer for Public Health Tim Howells, for the attention of all primary schools.
What We Are Trying to do Through the Active Food Swap Challenge?
Educate parents and children about the benefits of making small changes to their food choices and inspiring them to try for themselves.
How We Are Doing This?
Challenging parents and children to participate through a 4-week challenge at home as part of the Active Movement programme.
How the Active Swap Challenge Works?
It is a competition for individual families. Children/parents are supplied a series of food swaps each week that they should try to complete. They are also sent a Discovering Food chart to try and complete. Each home can select a child as the Active Swap AMBassador whose job is to help parents complete the swaps. Anyone who returns all 5 completed sheets with parent name and class name written on each back to the school (by hand or by post) or to Active Movement (by email) is entered into a prize draw.
What We Would Like Schools to do?
- Supply to parents a copy of the briefing email with the Discovering Food chart/ first week’s Swap Challenge sheet/Active AMbassador Swapper children pledge
- Send each week the Active Movement parent/AMbassador email/weekly Swap Challenge sheet
- Organise collection of the final set of Swap Challenge sheets and Discovering Food charts from the parents by teachers upon return to school or promote the scanning and emailing of entries to peter@activemovement.co.uk
- Send out a post-programme questionnaire to evaluate the programme’s effectiveness
Incentive/Notification
Active Movement is offering three prizes (£75/£50/£25) of food vouchers at a local retailer
If you would like to sign up please email peter@activemovement.co.uk.