Grange Park
Primary School
Healthy Bodies for Healthy Minds
We take wellness seriously every day but on Wednesday, we go one step further.
Each Wednesday, the children from The Hive prepare healthy snacks that well sell during Wednesday playtime. Our Y6 children are then responsible for selling, serving and calculating change. This links with our aspiration curriculum and preparing the children for adulthood.
We serve a whole range of snacks including melon slices, breadsticks and hummus, ricecakes, carrot sticks and much, much more. Our pupils love having a healthy snack and, EVEN BETTER, the proceeds then go towards buying lovely books for our pupils to read. HEALTHY BODIES AND HEALTHY MINDS!
Two of our Y6 pupils are responsible for collecting in the money from the Wellness Wednesday snack sales. They take the money and work with our School Business Manager, Mrs Noble, to sort and count the money, place into money bags ready for banking, they call this "Profit Time".
The children calculate the total income that week, then deduct the costs of goods from the supermarket to enable them to calculate the profit. The details are placed into a spreadsheet to keep a running total of income, costs and profit.
As part of the succession planning for when our Y6 pupils move onto their secondary education, they are involved in the recruitment process for their replacements from the current Y5 class. With Mrs Noble, they designed an application form and then the Y5 class were invited to apply for the roles of seller and money counter. Following careful consideration, the next sellers and money counters are recruited and chosen to run Wellness Wednesdays from the following September.
This is the application form that our Fruit Volunteers made with Mrs Noble.
So far, our Fruity Profits have enabled the school to buy:
New bookshelves for the Key Stage One Library
A class set of Alice in Wonderland Books
A class set of Non-Fiction Shakespeare books
A class set of Lizzie Zipmouth
A class set of Kaspar the Prince of Cats
How amazing is that? Our Wednesdays are great for body AND mind!
An example of the spreadsheet our pupils use to calculate costs and profits.
