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Merriwa Primary School - Pride themselves on being a healthy school |
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At Merriwa Primary School we pride ourselves on being a healthy
school. Below, the wide range of activities that we
did in 2008 to promote a healthy lifestyle to our students and
community.
- Brownes - Fontera provided 640 free Cali Yum flavoured yoghurts
to every child in the school on Tuesday 6th May to promote this healthy
food which is low in sugar, low in fat and high in calcium. These
are available for purchasing from the canteen on a regular basis.
- Our school canteen uses the traffic light system which ensures
that only healthy foods in the green section of traffic lights are sold
in the school.
- We have a Crunch & Sip Policy which encourages the eating of
fruit and veg each day in class and to drink water during physical
education and sports classes. All students in the school received
a Crunch & Sip water bottle to use. Funding that was
received as part of the Crunch & Sip Policy was used by the canteen
to provide plates of veg and fruit for every class over a week.
- We run a fortnightly healthy eating raffle which encourages
teachers to hand out a raffle ticket for each child that has healthy
food in their lunch boxes. The raffle tickets then go into a draw
at the fortnightly assembly and a prize is given to three students;
one each in upper, middle, and lower primary.
- We are a Sun Smart school and every child in the school has a
wide brimmed school hat and is not permitted in the playground or at
sport without their hat. All students are also required to wear
sun protective clothing and sunscreen for all camps, appropriate sports
and excursions. We provide shade at all sporting carnivals and
outdoor events.
- Our music teacher has introduced the ‘5 Portions A Day’ song as a
community song which is regularly performed at the assembly. This
song suggests a range of vegetable and fruit that could make up the 5
portions.
- Our school P&C are encouraging healthy life styles through running a lap-a-thon in term 2 to fund raise.
- Our PE teacher runs a cross country running club which attracts
students from years 4 to 7 to train before and after school.
These students also enter the City To Surf Fun Run and complete the 5km
stretch of the run. A local business has regularly volunteered to
provide a free lunch (Subway) for every adult and child that
participates on the day.
- For the Social and Emotional well being of our students we run a
School Volunteer Programme with approximately 9 volunteers who come in
to the school and mentor a number of children each week. During
these mentoring sessions the child and mentor complete school
activities, craft projects or educational games. The impact this
programme has had on a number of children who suffer loss or lack
confidence is very positive. This has been running for the past 5
years and has helped and supported over 100 children.
Helen Fiebig
Deputy Principle
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No Spray Zone at North Albany Senior High School |
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In 2006, North Albany Senior High School identified the need to ban the use of aerosol deorderants at school. Many of our staff and students have asthma and several are highly sensitive to aerosol deoderants which act as a trigger to an (often) serious asthma attack.
To create change we have used a whole of school approach. We have featured information in the newsletter articles (for parents) and regular bites of information in the student notices to raise awareness of the issue. Students designed a "NO SPRAY ZONE" poster which is displayed all around the school. Staff are asked to confiscate aerosol deoderants and hand to the deputy principal. If a student is found spraying at school they are to see the prinicpal! I have spoken at year assembleys requesting students not to bring these items (and why) to school and offered alternative options to smelling nice - using roll on! It will take time to make the shift for students to not bring sprays to school, but continued awareness raising activites will facilitate the process.
Jennifer McRae
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Halidon Primary School - Gobble Way Day |
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I am the Canteen manager at Halidon Primary school in Kingsley WA.
We are holding a "Gobble way" Day. Our Canteen is called Gobble'n'Go. Hence the name.
On
this day we do abit of a take off of subway, each child gets a fresh
bread roll (/ two pieces of bread if the are young and can handle a
roll) in which they choose what they wish to put in it chicken, ham,
egg, cheese then they add their choice of salad lettuce, grated carrot,
beetroot, cucumber, tomato, onion, rosted capisum, olives then their
choice of sauce mayo, ceaser, sweet chilli or sour cream.
Along
with that they recieve a frozen low Gi Wild Berry juice Granita and
fruit Muffin. It is amazing what some children will eat when all their
friends are eating them too. We have parent help to serve the children,
they come through in a class group line up choose their food and the
parents place the food in the roll.
We are trying to offer
healthy choices when ever possible and to get the children to see that
a healthy option is not a tasty option.
Gaye Johnson
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