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Dear Parents

We will be holding a “Food Week” from Monday 2^nd October to Friday 6^th October. Children will be learning about various aspects of food across a variety of curriculum areas – we will be discussing what makes a healthy diet, how food is grown/produced and transported, how much it costs to buy. We will be tasting food from other countries and cultures, reading and writing recipes, making our own food, sketching fruit and vegetables, etc, etc.

During the week, a number of events and visitors have been planned. At 3 pm on Monday 2^nd October Tracy Bainton (school nurse) and a colleague will share ideas with parents about how to prepare a healthy and appetising lunch box, please bring any ideas you have too. Veronica Quinn from Warwickshire County Caterers will also be present to talk to you about recent changes to school dinners and cafeteria choices and to answer any questions you may have on these issues. We will take care of any school-age children until the talk is finished.

 On Tuesday 3^rd October we will be having Harvest Festival services at the church ( 9.30am – KS1, 11am – KS2) which parents are welcome to attend. We are asking children to bring either fresh fruit or vegetables, tins or packets, a cake or loaf of bread. These items will be sold in a Harvest Produce Sale at 3pm that day and the proceeds will go to the charity Food Aid which helps to provide solutions to hunger and poverty in thirty of the world’s poorest countries. Gym club will take place outside that day – if it is raining I’m afraid it will have to be cancelled. We would appreciate some help in preparing for the sale (setting up tables, packaging food into hampers) – please let us know if you are available.

Other visitors for the week will include an organic farmer to talk to some of the KS2 children and Eddie Stephens who cooks for the GB Olympic sailing team. If you have any other contacts or would like to be involved yourself please let us know! We would welcome any parents or friends of the school to come and talk to or cook with classes or smaller groups of children during the week.

We have decided to have a fancy dress theme for the final day – Friday 6^th October - on the theme of food. In return for wearing fancy dress children are asked to bring in an item for the tombola for the Autumn Fayre which takes place on Saturday 14^th October. The Friends are going to compile a recipe book to be sold to parents – please send in a favourite recipe before Friday 6^th October. The book will be illustrated by the children.

As well as Food Week it is also “Walk to School Week” – please encourage your children to walk or cycle to school ( at least some of the way if you live at some distance from the school) – we will be giving out badges and certificates for effort.

This is the first time we have held a Food Week – please help to make it a success by supporting our events!

Yours sincerely,

I plan to attend the talk on healthy lunchboxes and school meals on Monday 2^nd October. Number of seats required ________________

I am / am not available to help with the produce sale on Tuesday 3^rd October.

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