there are several steps that can be take to encourage brekfast consumption among students in school.Having school breakfast thet ensures a nutritious start everyday.School breakfast is the prefect option for students.Celebrate National School Breakfast Week
One of the easiest ways to promote breakfast is to celebrate National School Breakfast Week held annually during the month of March. Events such as a Breakfast Dress-up Day or a School Breakfast poster contest can be simple or elaborate. Be creative and do what works for your school!
Providing free breakfast during National School Breakfast Week may generate awareness of breakfast as a healthy option at school, as well as provide students with the opportunity to sample breakfast menu choices. Remember to estimate costs based on the additional participation that day or week. Promote this special event by giving out coupons to students for a free breakfast when they get off the bus, or send coupons home with them in a newsletter. This idea can be expanded to include the first day of school or the first week of school to generate awareness.
During National School Breakfast Week, enlist the support of homeroom, health, science, physical education teachers and coaches so they will act as positive role models. Encourage teachers to eat breakfast with their students or discuss the importance of breakfast in class. Distribute menus to teachers so they can mention the foods served in school. Collaborate with health teachers to highlight the message of breakfast and the importance of eating breakfast for a healthy start to the day. Offer coaches a decorated table specifically for their teams to eat breakfast together the morning of a big game.
Invite Parents to Breakfast
Parents understand the importance of breakfast and the impact it has on a child's ability to learn. Why not invite them for a parents' breakfast? Offer samples of the same breakfast items so parents can taste the food their children have at school. Give a tour of the food service department and provide family-sized recipes for parents to take home (if possible, include a nutrient analysis to show how the meals compare with nutrition standards.). Include a coupon for “One Free Breakfast” as part of your promotion materials that parents could redeem whenever is convenient for them.
Parents understand the importance of breakfast and the impact it has on a child's ability to learn. Why not invite them for a parents' breakfast? Offer samples of the same breakfast items so parents can taste the food their children have at school. Give a tour of the food service department and provide family-sized recipes for parents to take home (if possible, include a nutrient analysis to show how the meals compare with nutrition standards.). Include a coupon for “One Free Breakfast” as part of your promotion materials that parents could redeem whenever is convenient for them.
Contests
Contests can build awareness of your products and services, as well as generate excitement about giveaways or prizes. Consider details such as how students enter the contest, how staff will evaluate entries, will there be prizes for everyone or just one grand prize? Create entry forms and an eye catching collection box for the complete forms. Advertise with flyers and banners and include wording in your newsletters or announcements. After the contest, announce the winners and create publicity by taking pictures. Be sure to check school policies on contests and prizes.
Contests can build awareness of your products and services, as well as generate excitement about giveaways or prizes. Consider details such as how students enter the contest, how staff will evaluate entries, will there be prizes for everyone or just one grand prize? Create entry forms and an eye catching collection box for the complete forms. Advertise with flyers and banners and include wording in your newsletters or announcements. After the contest, announce the winners and create publicity by taking pictures. Be sure to check school policies on contests and prizes.
- Poster Contest
Students enjoy being creative and expressing themselves through various channels other than writing. Create an opportunity for students to design a menu for the month or a poster promoting breakfast at school. Create your own criteria regarding paper size, message and theme. You could also offer different grades different prizes so that each class has an opportunity to win. Display the winning posters in the cafeteria.
Choose a theme, such as designing a health message for breakfast. Posters can also be used to create a new image for breakfast at your school. Let students design names and a gimmick for a certain menu item and apply the winner's idea to the item after the contest. - Milk Contest
Have students create a milk mustache photo gallery. Give each student the opportunity to have his or her picture taken with a milk moustache and display each grade's results in hallways or the cafeteria. Each grade could vote on its favorite theme or costume. Select judges to choose which grade level's pictures are the silliest, which grade had the most participants, etc. - Cereal Box Design Contest
Have students create a cereal box for their favorite cereal and have celebrities, teachers, or local high school art students judge the boxes. Similarly, Food Service Staff can offer a new breakfast dish and have students create advertising and promotional materials for the item. Students can have their artwork published in the school newspaper or used in promotional materials to send home to parents.
Celebrity Day
Host an event in which local celebrities join your students for breakfast. These local celebrities are role models for students of any age. They can be mascots from sports teams, members from a university sports team, news reporters, a familiar local face, the mayor, or a city councilperson. Seek out people who are familiar to the children and bring about a positive image. Students listen not only to their peers, but to adults that they emulate.
Host an event in which local celebrities join your students for breakfast. These local celebrities are role models for students of any age. They can be mascots from sports teams, members from a university sports team, news reporters, a familiar local face, the mayor, or a city councilperson. Seek out people who are familiar to the children and bring about a positive image. Students listen not only to their peers, but to adults that they emulate.
Theme Days
Theme days spark interest in “checking out what's new” and provide the opportunity to serve new types of foods. Choose different themes for the cafeteria and serve food that supports that theme.
Theme days spark interest in “checking out what's new” and provide the opportunity to serve new types of foods. Choose different themes for the cafeteria and serve food that supports that theme.
Turn the cafeteria into a tropical paradise with a Hawaiian Day Celebration using cut out palm trees and grass skirts to decorate the serving counter, and have staff wear Hawaiian shirts and leis. Serve Hawaiian pizza (pizza with ham and pineapple) or luau muffins or serve pineapple as the fruit that day.
Showcase menus based on a holiday, culture or team to make school meals fun. Celebrate diversity with cultural sensitivity regarding your school's population.
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