Check out the fantatsic activities that are happening at Singleton Primary School in the area of health and fitness:

• Runners club - more than 80 participants brave the cold morning each Monday and Wednesday at 8am
• All classes take part in physical activity for atleast 20 minutes each day
• A 0-4 years program has been developed and involves 30 minute sessions devoted to fundamental movement skills. The program builds on an already established reading/library program that encourages young parents to engage with the school, staff and resource centre to enhance their parenting skills. The new 0-4 program hopes to encourage young families to make use of the school as a community resource.

For more information about the activities at Singleton Primary School please contact Bevan Ripp, School Principal on (08) 9537 3199.

The Healthy Active Australia Community and School Grants Program was launched on Friday 11 May 2007.  This program promotes healthy living at a local level, encouraging an increase in physical activity and healthy eating in schools and communities across Australia. Grants from $10,000 to $200,000 are available.

More information on the school grants that are available can be found on www.healthyactive.gov.au

Closing date for grants is 26 June 2007.

Healthy Schools Day is on the Wednesday 21 May 2008.

This is an opportunity to promote what schools are ALREADY doing to improve the health of students and the whole school community.

Is there something "healthy" happening in a school you know of?

Why not tell us about what your school is doing to promote school health! We'd love to share it on our website!
 
Also, we encourage you to seek local media and other promotional opportunities to raise the profile of the school and the positive activities that it is doing within the community. We encourage you to make the day as exciting and interactive as possible, encouraging students to actively participate by displaying, demonstrating or and presenting elements of the program.

To support you in the promotion of the health promotion program(s) that you implement, the WAHPSA has provided you with a media release template.

You may also wish to contact the coordinator of the program that you are implementing (for example the contact person within the School Drug Education and Road Aware program) for further support and ideas about how to promote your school as part of Healthy Schools Day.

Read about some of the great ideas from other schools, or for a list of other WA agencies that are committed to improving school health, please visit our members page.

The WAHPSA would like to thank you again for your involvement in Healthy Schools Day and your dedication to the health of your students and your school community.

• 'Health promotion: Better health, better learning'
• Making school health effective. Lawrence St Leger, 2006 (ppt)
• Protocols and guidelines for health promoting schools, IUHPE 2006
• WHO report on the effectiveness of health promoting schools, 2006
• Healthy child care centre menus: updated guidelines
• Walk and Talk', 'Games for Out of School Hours', 'Be Active Take Steps'