Setting up a tuck shop
At fruit to suit we are passionate about providing healthier snacks and educating children into making a healthier choice.
We train your Tuck Shop Team, through a series of meetings and workshops, to set up and run their healthier tuck shop independently. Right from the start, they have complete ownership of their fruit to suit Healthy Tuck Shop business. They gain invaluable business and enterprise skills and the pressure is taken off already overstretched and overworked teaching staff! We can return year after year, retraining your new Tuck Shop Team. All the children in your school will eventually have the opportunity to be fully trained to run their own business.
Read here what one of our Wirral Schools had to say about our program.
Training
We offer two options for your training:
1. We train a whole class or year group, we recommend Year 5 as Year 6 have a lot of commitments. We can return year after year training the Year 5’s, eventually giving every child in your school the opportunity to be trained to set up and run their own business. The workshops are approximately 40 minutes in length but we can tailor them to match your individual lesson plans. There is very minimal staff input required as all the Tuck Shop Team tasks are monitored by your fruit to suit representative. There is a small charge for this option.
2. We train a small group of children, usually school council, in three half hour visits. All of the Tuck Shop Manager tasks will have to be monitored by a member of staff to ensure that the tuck shop is set up and an assembly and launch organised. This option is free.
Initial Meeting with Staff
This is an opportunity for you to meet your fruit to suit representative and discuss the stages involved in setting up and running a healthy tuck shop.
Points of discussion:
· Training
· Snacks supplied
· Further costs
· Nut allergies
· Finances
· Staffing
fruit to suit Sales Pitch
We market our company to your chosen Tuck Shop Team.
Points of discussion
· fruit to suitthe company
· Our characters
· Our products we supply
· Nut allergies
· Our workshops
We give the children the opportunity to question us, and finally, decide whether or not they would like to use our company.
To help the workshops run smoothly we give the children a list of the Tuck Shop Management roles and their job descriptions to look at before the first workshop.
Workshop B How to Set up an Run a Business
This is a brainstorming session with the Tuck Shop Team looking at what decisions they need to make and what they need to have in place to set up and run their own business.
Points of discussion:
· Staffing – the children vote, in secret, on which children are sbest suited to the Tuck Shop Management roles
· Business name
· Where the tuck shop will be held
· When it will be held
· What prices they will charge
· What they will do with their profits
Every Workshop tasks are assigned to the Tuck Shop Management team to be completed before the next workshop. The tasks are explained to the managers and they are given a worksheet which contains their task, ideas and prompts.
For example:
· The Tuck Shop Manager has to arrange the dates, times, venues and resources for the remaining workshops
· The Finance Manager has to organise the sale price of the snacks
Workshop B Market Research
This is a taster session for the Tuck Shop Managers. They taste all the snacks and rate them. The Purchasing Manager scores the snacks and informs the fruit to suit representative of the top five snacks. These will be the five snacks the tuck shop starts with.
Workshop C Marketing
Marketing and its importance to a business is explained to the Tuck Shop Team.
We discuss and demonstrate what makes a good advert and the Tuck Shop Team make their own adverts to be placed around the school.
The Marketing Manager writes a letter to parents explaining when and why they are having a healthy tuck shop and what products they will be selling.
Workshop D Stock Control
We demonstrate how spreadsheets can be used in business, why they are so useful and, finally, produce one with the Tuck Shop Team which they can use to calculate:
· The money they should have collected
· The profit they have made
· How many of snack they have sold
· How many of each snack they need to order
Assembly and Launch
The children, through their assigned tasks, organise an assembly to inform the rest of the school about the tuck shop and the launch.
Continued Support
fruit to suit continues to support the healthier tuck shop with visits, presentations, snack tasting, promotions and competitions to ensure that the tuck shop remains dynamic and exciting.
The benefits of a healthier tuck shop
A healthier tuck shop:
- helps your school to fulfil the criteria for achieving the Healthy School Status Award
- helps your school to meet at least four of the five outcomes for children and young people as
identified in the Every Child Matters Agenda: Being Healthy, Enjoying and Achieving through
Learning, Making a Positive Contribution to Society and Achieving Economic Well-being - reinforces the curriculum and helps to give consistent messages about healthy eating
- enables children to use their ICT skills for advertising, stock control and placing orders
- encourages children to eat more fruit and vegetables - a very nutritious snack providing vitamins, minerals and fibre, and it is recommended that children eat at least five portions a day. Most children currently eat less than this
- provides children with the opportunity to try a wider variety of fruit and vegetables
- is proactive in the prevention of excess weight and obesity in children
- helps promote positive peer pressure to snack healthily
- helps develop good eating patterns which the children will carry through into adult life
reducing the risk of coronary heart disease and some cancers - provides an ideal opportunity to promote Fair Trade produce to your children
- raises funds without compromising children’s health