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Developing Tuck Shops
Developing Tuck Shops
Facilitation Ideas
The following seven points have been broken down into key questions and
discussion points that you may wish to use when developing a tuck shop, this
can be adapted when changing an existing tuck shop
2. The problem
Introduce the problem i.e. you want their help to develop a tuck shop
Why should we to develop a tuck shop?
What is appropriate to sell (good for body and safe for teeth)?
4. Setting up
Where is the food going to be stored?
What preparation is needed, when will this be done and by whom?
When and where are you going to sell the food?
Who is going to sell the food (a rota may be required)?
What food and hygiene issues do you need to think about?
How much is the food going to cost the customer?
5. Promotion
Who do you need to tell?
What are you going to tell them?
How are you going to tell them?
Will you run some free taster sessions?
How will you spice things up? e.g. occasional exotic fruit, home made
smoothies.
7. Follow on
Has the tuck shop made a difference (eating habits, behaviour).
Does anything else have to change to support the tuck shop e.g. snack
rules in what children/young people can bring in to eat at break.
N.B: The setting up, running and evaluation of a tuck shop could be linked to
an enterprise project, maths lessons, IT lessons in school.
Main Messages:
Eatwell Plate
Safe foods for teeth
Food Safety
SFT Non-Lunch Standards 2007
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How to buy into the National School Fruit &
Vegetable Scheme:
To buy extra fruit from the School Fruit and Vegetable Scheme (SF&VS)
distributors, you need to set up an account with them directly for the
service/school to be invoiced for the additional fruit. The distributor is called
Minor, Weir and Willis (MWW) and their phone number is 0871 2882096.
Prices are approx £1.10 per bag (10 pieces of fruit / vegetables in each bag
so roughly 11p per. It is useful for MWW if you can find out your nearest
infant school that receives this already so they can identify the delivery route
you will be added to.
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