What is a Healthy Promoting School ?
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A Healthy Promoting School endeavors to do the following
• Promotes the health and well-being of pupils • Enhances the learning outcomes of pupils • Upholds social justice and equity • Provides a safe and supportive environment • Involves pupil participation and empowerment • Links health and education issues and systems • Addresses the health and well-being issues of school staff • Collaborates with parents/guardians and the wider community • Integrates health into the schools’ ongoing activities, curriculum and assessment standards • Sets realistic goals built on sound evidence • Seeks continuous improvement through ongoing monitoring and evaluation |
HEALTHY IDEAS |
The Healthy Promoting School Committee 2015-2016
We are the Healthy Promoting School Committee, If you have ideas or want to talk to us about how we can improve the health and lifestyle of the school , come and talk to us !!
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Operation Transformation 2016
O.T. want to see Irish children’s lunchboxes transform over the next few weeks so they are asking schools to support their healthy lunch box initiative. To help parents and children alike, Safefood have created a Healthy Lunchbox leaflet with everything you need to know.
http://www.rte.ie/static/tv/ot/Safefood%20Healthy-Lunchboxleaflet.pdf
O.T are also encouraging lots of fun exercises routines that you can enjoy at home...try out their "It's your move" dance routines.
Dance Tutorial Part 1
Move 1: Clap 4 times
Move 2: Bounce left and right
Move 3: Shoulder dust
Move 4: Dance into a straight line and stamp
Move 5: Slide left and right
Move 6: Fist over head to the ground
Now put it all together.
Dance Tutorial Part 2
Move 1: Kick out pas de bourett
Move 2: Reebok
Move 3: Kick out pas de bourett
Move 4: Slide forward and bounce
Move 5: Knee bounce
Move 6: Snaps
Move 7: Wave to side
Move 8: Triangle (side drop)
Move 9: Snaps
Now put it all together and try do Part 1 and Part 2 altogether!
http://www.rte.ie/static/tv/ot/Safefood%20Healthy-Lunchboxleaflet.pdf
O.T are also encouraging lots of fun exercises routines that you can enjoy at home...try out their "It's your move" dance routines.
Dance Tutorial Part 1
Move 1: Clap 4 times
Move 2: Bounce left and right
Move 3: Shoulder dust
Move 4: Dance into a straight line and stamp
Move 5: Slide left and right
Move 6: Fist over head to the ground
Now put it all together.
Dance Tutorial Part 2
Move 1: Kick out pas de bourett
Move 2: Reebok
Move 3: Kick out pas de bourett
Move 4: Slide forward and bounce
Move 5: Knee bounce
Move 6: Snaps
Move 7: Wave to side
Move 8: Triangle (side drop)
Move 9: Snaps
Now put it all together and try do Part 1 and Part 2 altogether!
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What Is WOW week ???
We wonder can anyone guess what WOW week is ???
Need Ideas for Healthy Lunches ?
Good food habits set early in childhood can last a lifetime. Lunches provide around one third of our daily nutritional needs, so it’s important to put some thought and planning into them. Here are some tips on how to prepare a healthy lunchbox.
Seven steps to creating healthy, varied and interesting lunchboxes
Seven steps to creating healthy, varied and interesting lunchboxes
- Include a wide variety of foods - starchy foods, protein, dairy, and fruit and vegetables
- Try to offer different foods every day - no one wants to be eating a ham sandwich five days a week!
- Vary the types of bread e.g. pitta bread, bagels, wholemeal rolls - keep a stock in the freezer
- Cook extra rice/pasta in the evening - these can make interesting salads
- Theme your lunchbox on a different country, e.g. Italian - try a pasta salad, Mexican fill flour tortillas
- Home-made soup (in a Thermos flask) is great for cold days, while salads are light and refreshing for warmer weather. Both are packed with essential vitamins and minerals
- Fluids are important for children - up to 6 cups of fluid should be encouraged daily. Milk and water are the best options. Straws and brightly coloured drinks bottles can make rehydrating more interesting!
Food Dudes is a great site. There is a parents' section and a children's section. If you click on the Food Dude image here it will take you to the lunchboxideas section which has lots of wonderful tips and suggestions.
This is the Bord Bia web site. They have suggestions for healthy lunch boxes for Irish schools. Click and read.
Great suggestions on how to create a healthy lunch for both adults and children .
For HPS Week we are going to ......
Eat the Colours of the Rainbow
Monday: Eat RED fruits and Vegetables
Tuesday: Eat GREEN fruits and Vegetables
Wednesday: Eat YELLOW fruits & vegetables
Thursday: Eat ORANGE fruits & vegetables
Friday: Eat pURPLE/BLUE fruits & vegetables
We are an Active School !!
Regular physical activity is the key to getting healthy and staying healthy.
Senior Sports DAy
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Senior Sports day was held on the 6th of June .
Lots of activities were organised and fun was had by all. |
Junior Sports DAy
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What a great day we had!!. Junior Sports day was held on the 23rd of May . everybody had a great time.
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Irish Rounders !!
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The GAA came to teach us all how to play Irish rounders. It was a beautiful day and all the classes got to participate which was great.
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Circus Time
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Every Wednesday the Galway Community Circus has being coming to visit Seomra Shona to teach the children circus skills. It looks like great fun.
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