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Free school council resources from Sainsbury's by Asher Jacobsberg
Over the last few years Sainsbury's Active Kids vouchers have allowed schools to get all kinds of free sporting and cookery equipment and experiences, but Sainsbury's wants to make Active Kids even bigger and better and they want school councils to tell them how to do it.
Sainsbury's want Active Kids to help pupils in lots of different areas, not just sports and healthy eating, but all kinds of after-school and lunch-time activities. They also want Active Kids to give pupils experiences in enterprise, music and green issues.
But Sainsbury's knows that the way to develop the best Active Kids programme is to get pupils, through their school councils, to help them.
So using the toolkits, or other methods you already use for getting opinions from your school your school council could run a consultation on what support your school would like from Sainsbury's. |
| Consultations and surveys can be a great way for a school council to raise its profile and at the same time find out from the people who matter what the council should be doing. But you need to make sure that people know what is going to happen to their suggestions:
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As well as the free toolkits, Sainsbury's are also giving out some great prizes to the schools that make the best contributions. You can win loads of School Councils UK resources, Active Kids vouchers and the chance to become Active Kids Consultants. Consultants will get to go to regional events with training and the chance to write the Active Kids Manifesto.
At the same time as asking your school about what Sainsbury's can do, you could also be finding out what they want your school council to be doing. You can usually slip in a couple more questions whether you're doing a questionnaire, online-survey, interviews or assemblies - just be careful not to make it too long!
So, to get involved check out Sainsbury's Active Kids Get Talking website: www.get-talking.co.uk