Overview

Home Overview of the Project The main aim of this project was to promote health and wellbeing within Stanhope Primary School and the community of Stanhope based upon their current needs within this area. We formulated a specific set of objectives to follow which were aimed at promoting and improving health and wellbeing. We then conducted a ‘needs assessment’ of the school to isolate which were the main areas that needed to be addressed and work out how we could address them. This then formed our Aims & Objectives for the ‘Step into health Day’: **1. ****Improve participation in physical activity.** **2. ****Improve consumption of fruit and vegetables.** **3. ****Integrate health into other subjects.** **4. ****Integrate curriculum that will be ongoing.** **5. ****Improve school partnerships.** By combining the objectives and needs we came up with: ** Objectives ** || ** Strategies ** || ** Performance Indicators ** || Improve participation in physical activity || Skipping, step class, hockey – introduce new ways of enjoying physical activity || Student evaluation of physical activity (questionnaire). || Improve consumption of fruit and vegetables  || Orienteering – search for pictures of healthy food and label them. Healthy lunch - taste testing of fruit. Create own healthy sandwich. ||  Student evaluation of fruit and vegetable consumption (questionnaire). || Integrate health into other subjects  || Bean bags – make and decorate been bags, use been bags for sport. Herb garden – lifecycle. Orienteering – run to find healthy fruit then spell the healthy fruit correctly. ||  Students participate in the bean bag, herb garden and orienteering activity  || Integrate curriculum that will be ongoing || Herb garden – create a herb garden. Hockey – school may wish to continue the sport. || Students and teachers indicate any ongoing activities at their school two weeks after the healthy activity day (e-mail). || Improve school partnerships || Communicate with local community to provide support to the school || Identify involvement and any promotional materials received (list). || The Step into Health Day implemented at Stanhope Primary School, involving all students from prep to grade 6, was a fun filled day full of activities. The main focus was to educate students, through participation in a number of activities, demonstrating how and what it meant to lead a healthy lifestyle which could be maintained throughout the lifespan. Physical activity is an important aspect to consider when leading a healthy lifestyle. The majority of students at Stanhope PS participated in and were aware of common sports, like netball and football that were available to them. After conducting a ‘needs assessment’ of the school, we aimed to give students the opportunity to be exposed to and participate in a range of physical activities that were not commonly recognised. These activities included hockey, a step class, skipping activities, orienteering and movement challenges including bean bag challenges. The bean bag challenges managed to combine both physical activity and mental health within one lesson therefore linking areas of the curriculum. All lesson plans & resources were given to the school so all these activities can be continued on with and expanded on within the current curriculum. Also in line with the schools needs we conducted activities relating to nutrition and physical activity utilising their garden to promote how and why we need to keep fit and healthy to work in a garden and incorporating planting herbs to compliment the other vegetables already established. This was followed up with the students being given a lesson about healthy eating, including how to use herbs, why we need a varied diet, how to obtain a healthy varied diet, the amounts and kinds of foods that need to be consumed each day to receive the nutrients essential to good health and well being and finally how to create and eat a healthy lunch!!!  There were many instances of our activities being incorporated into various parts of the curriculum. This was illustrated in our Healthy Lunch, Herb Garden, Bean Bag and Orienteering activities, where children were given the opportunity to create their own healthy lunch, plant their own herbs, play bean bag games underpinned with a mental health focus and locate & identify a range of fruit & vegetables by following a map. The final central theme to the Step into Health Day was to adhere to the Health Promoting Schools Framework; a policy already implemented in the school. This was successfully accomplished by supporting a whole school and community approach to building an environment where students were provided with skills enabling them to choose nutritious foods, be physically active in a number of ways and lead healthy lifestyles.
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 * Our aims based upon Stanhope Primary School Needs & the above: **
 * For students to increase their activity levels and be involved in non traditional sports.
 * Incorporate their current garden with links to nutrition and outdoor activity.
 * Build on the community connection through the garden.
 * Integrate curriculum that will be ongoing.
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