SPRINGDALE FIRST SCHOOL

Springdale takes part in the nationally accredited 'Healthy Schools Scheme'. Each year we focus on two of the eight main areas which include healthy eating and physical activity.

We encourage all children to bring a healthy snack and lunch box, promoting the importance of these with parents and children. We give stickers to reinforce the message and the school nurse comes in to talk to the children. Posters and leaf lets are displayed around the school and it is an important part of our science curriculum as well as personal, social and health education (PSHE). We have had fruit 'taster, sessions and children make fruit salad, as well as vegetable soup from organic vegetables grown in the school garden by Year 2. All the children are encouraged to drink water especially during the afternoons to help concentration. Older children explore the need for balanced meals and discuss menus and how each food helps the body to work properly. Most schools in Poole and Dorset have an annual visit from the Life Education Bus. This provides an interactive experience for the children which builds through the years to give the children a clear insight into how their body works and how our food and other substances such as alcohol, nicotine or other drugs can affect us.

The Life Education Bus will visit Springdale in early March and there is usually a session for visitors and parents. This year (Sept 2002 onwards) we are thinking especially about emotional health and drug education (including tobacco and alcohol). If anyone would like to know more about the Healthy Schools scheme then you could contact Healthworks, Dorset's Health Promotion Agency.

Mrs K.M. Gillis, Headteacher.

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