Sainsburys Active Kids Get Talking

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If you want to get people involved in your consultation you need to make sure they know it's happening.

Here are a few tips what you need to let everyone know about the consultation:
What you need to let everyone know about the consultation:

• It's about what you want in your school or group.
• Sainsbury's will use your ideas to help every school or group in the country.
• The best ideas will win prizes for our school or group.
• What the five Active Ideas are:
• Active Time – break time and after-school clubs
• Active Sports – new and different sports
• Active Enterprise – learning about how business works
• Active Cooking – creating tasty, healthy food
• Your Active Idea – a completely new idea from you
• When and how people can tell you their ideas.
• When you will let them now the results.

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Assemblies

these are a great way to talk to a lot of people at once school or group, but you need to make sure what you say is interesting, clear and that you say it in an engaging way. We've all turned off in assemblies, so think about what would make you sit up and listen. There's help in Assembly.

Posters

posters all around your school or group building will remind people that about the consultation. You could do a different poster for each of the Active Ideas. Make sure you put them in places that everyone will see, like in busy corridors and the dining hall.

Website

put a notice up on your school or group website and computers log-in pages, you could ask your teachers or group leaders to show it on their interactive whiteboards. You could even include a link to your on-line survey. Are there other website people at your school or group use? Could you put up information about the consultation on them?

Leaflet

handing out a leaflet to everyone in the school or group will make sure they all have lots of information. Make sure you think about the design as well as what you write.

Stall

set up a table in the playground and decorate it, maybe play some music, when people come over to find out what is going on you can tell them about the consultation. If you have leaflets you could give them out at the stall.

Notice boards

make sure your school council/forum notice board and any other notice boards around the school or group have information about the consultation on them.

Class and year council meetings

make sure you tell people about the consultation in your class council meetings at least a week before it happens so they have time to come up with ideas. You might want to ask people o volunteer to help out with the consultation.

Newsletter

if you have a school or group newsletter put a story in about the consultation.

Letters

if you want to get people outside your school or group involved (parents, local business people, etc.) send them a letter telling them why is a good idea. Ask your school or group if you can use their headed paper.