School Nutrition Action Group (SNAG)

Healthy Eating Workshop

Our SNAG Team…

Josh Timpson Year 6

Calvin Price Year 5Tanaya Shaw Year 5

Yasmin Aburas Year 4Demi Parry Year 4

Tyler Sullivan Year 3Max Trevett Year 3Shurain Hussain Year 3

A School Nutrition Action Group is a school-based team consisting of teaching staff, pupils and caterers who work together to review and improve the

school food service and promote healthy eating across the school.

We have worked hard over the last year to identify areas for development and promote the importance of healthy eating and nutrition around school.

We have: Conducted lunchbox surveys and analysed our findings in order to form

an action plan Promoted the importance of healthy snacking during break times Provided children with healthier options when deciding on lunchbox

choices Updated the school website with the outcomes of our meetings Designed SNAG logos that are identifiable around school.

What is SNAG?

What do you think a healthy plate

looks like? Use the colour codes to

divide your plate up into portions…

Protein – meat, fish, eggs

Fruit and vegetables

Carbohydrates – bread, rice, pasta

Milk and dairy

Foods high in sugar and fat

Healthy Snacking

From our lunchbox surveys we found that over 50% children did

not have a healthy snack to eat during break

times. There are lots of exciting snacks that are much healthier options!

What does a healthy lunch box look like?

What does a healthy lunch box look like? The results from our lunch box surveys showed that over

75% of children had healthy options in their lunchbox for example pieces of fruit, vegetables, wraps and pasta salads. However, 60% of children did have unhealthy snacks on top of this. It is fine to have a chocolate bar every now and then

but what we would like to see is a higher percentage of healthy options than unhealthy in the lunchboxes of

children at Glynoced.

Using the food on your table we would like to put together a healthy lunch, think about your decisions carefully as we

will be discussing them after!

Lunch box ideas click here! http://www.nhs.uk/Change4Life/Pages/healthy-lunchbox-picnic.aspx

The sneaky S’s – sugar and salt!How much is too much?

On your table there is a bag of sugar and a bag of salt – using the teaspoons and the cups provided measure out how much salt you think a child aged 7-11 should

have per day…

How much is too much?

But what about sugar?

You could make some sugar swaps

One last task…

We would like you to design a slogan for the SNAG that will be identifiable around school along with our logo. It needs to

be catchy and memorable!

School Nutrition Action Group (SNAG)

Thank you for coming to our Healthy Eating Workshop.

If you have any questions please ask a member of our SNAG team