Feeding staff at parents’ evenings

Before each parents’ evening (there are six each year), your local churches could bring sandwiches and baking into the school, set it up and serve tea and coffee. The food can be provided mainly by individuals from the local churches and Christian parents. It’s great to be able to support and encourage the teachers in this way and get to know and build relationships with them. It gathers the staff in one place before what can often be difficult evenings for them and helps them feel valued. It can make a great impact yet is such a simple thing to do!

How could you start this yourself?

• Ask the Senior Management Team if food before parents' evenings is something they would appreciate (if you have a team with the skills to provide food).

• Demonstrate your awareness of basic food hygiene for preparation, storage and transportation of food. Those serving food don’t need to be parents. Having students or grandparents there arouses curiosity and opportunities to explain your motivation.

• No strings attached. No tracts or obligations. Be relational.

• Pray. We have a growing email list of people who pray for the school and we tell everyone when we are taking food in and ask them to pray.