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junk amnesty

junk amnesty

How many packs of crisps, bars of chocolate and bottles of fizzy drinks are coming into your school unchecked? Do you, as a teacher or parent, really know how much junk food your kids are actually eating?

I organised a junk amnesty in Greenwich to see how many rubbish snacks the kids were bringing in and the results were frightening.

Here’s how to organise a junk amnesty in your school:

1. Plan the day with staff in advance but keep it secret from kids and parents. Involve everyone in your school: teachers, dinner ladies, lunchtime supervisors.

2. Sort out an incentive for handing in the junk, so the kids get an immediate reward. In Greenwich, we gave them a free voucher for our new healthy midday snack service which turned out to be a great way to get if off to a good start.

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How many of your local councillors or MP have had a school dinner? Do they know how much a school dinner costs, who provides the food, and what the dinner ladies get paid? If there’s no hot meal service, do they know what kids are getting for lunch? Or what’s being done in their council to change things?

How many local councillors and MPs are taking responsibility to make sure the government money for school dinners is being spent effectively? Are they making sure that schools are getting all the help and funding they need?

Why not email your local councillors and MP and find out? Using your postcode, our friends at Write To Them can tell you who your MP and councillors are, and then allow you to send them a message directly from their website.

No pens, no paper, no stamps, no cold walks to the post box. It's easy. Please do it today!

For more help with this, download the full instruction below.

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