Krispy Kreme & West Hill School

[SoulKiss]

Originally Posted by krhall

Difficult that as you don't want your kids to feel left out, so it is almost peer pressure by stealth.

I just think it is wrong.........and I'm not too sure what to do about it?

What to do?

Write (as in pen and paper) a letter and post it using Recorded Delivery.

In that letter, ask why it is that, after the turn around to healthy food, they are inviting large corporations into their school with products that are possibly worse than how things were.

Ask for full details on the "deal" they have (not guaranteed you will get this but worth a try) and request that they reply, in writing, within 14 days, or you will send a copy of this letter to the local authority.

If they phone you, be polite, but insist on a written reply.

Originally Posted by SoulKiss

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Do you know any of the other parents? I suggest a few of you get together and go see the head teach' directly and voice your (rightly so) disgust ... .. that has to have more impact than a single leter ...

[SoulKiss]

Originally Posted by Blue_SV650S

Do you know any of the other parents? I suggest a few of you get together and go see the head teach' directly and voice your (rightly so) disgust ... .. that has to have more impact than a single leter ...

Ahh but the letter is for phase 2, the newspapers

Originally Posted by sarah

Sounds pretty bad form to me. Not only encouraging them to eat junk but advertising the brand too (which imo is much more harmful).

Agreed. I'd be really annoyed if I were a parent with kids at this school.

Not yet, the school is really bad for everything I hate it, but am thinking of writing to them.

When my little girl was in her first year at school, she lost 3 of her grandparents within a 12 week period, so being the concerned parents and knowing how much it had affected us, we decided to go and speak to the head teacher, which we did and asked her to mention it to her teacher so that she could keep an eye on her.

Anyway a few months later we went to a parents evening and asked the teacher if she thought Daisy had been affected too much by the events, too which she replied 'what events?'........................she had not been informed.

Later that month the school published a letter encouraging parent/school communications!?!

Anyway my point is the school is really poor.

Originally Posted by krhall

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I would like to find out exactly how much the school makes out of this deal, is there a way of doing so under the FOI act?

This page gives an idea how the 'Fundraising' schemes work:

http://www.krispykreme.co.uk/How-it-works

So at their recommended cost they would make £3.70 per 12 doughnuts sold - so that must be the price they are prepared to sell our kids health for?

Nice!

Originally Posted by krhall

So at their recommended cost they would make £3.70 per 12 doughnuts sold - so that must be the price they are prepared to sell our kids health for?

Nice!

it would seem that way?

and £1.10 for a dougnut..... i would not pay that, nevermind expecting a 9 year old to pay it

it is open to all children so from 4 onwards!!!!

[SoulKiss]

Originally Posted by hovis

it would seem that way?

and £1.10 for a doughnut..... i would not pay that, nevermind expecting a 9 year old to pay it

Thats why you pop in past, see that its £1.10 each, see the "Dozen for £8" offer and decide to go for the value option and buy some for the office - because if you spend more but get less you are not being ripped off - right?

Then you eat the dozen before you get to the office cos they taste sooooo good, well the 1st 6 did, and now you are getting sick of them, but now you CANT take them into the office - they will know you ate 6 - so you hide round the corner and force yourself to eat the rest before stashing the empty box under a parked car.