Healthy Schools Speed Dating

Speed Dating at STF
2014
Black Gold and Parkland School Division
Get to know...Parkland School
Division
Contact:
Felicia Ochs, Youth Resiliency Coordinator
[email protected]
780-690-2835
District Level Resources:
http://bit.ly/1koBiG9
http://youtu.be/Hq4g3j5wirI
http://www.psdblogs.ca/fochs/
#psd70
District Lead
Position
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Support school-based health
champions and wellness
teams
Grant writing and
partnerships
Maintain transparency with
Board of Trustees and Senior
Executive Team
Engage in community
partner events, projects, and
youth-related work
Link to PSD Action Plans
Each school has been asked to take the JCSH
Healthy School Planner Foundational Module
and create an action plan that corresponds to
their recommendations. These action plans are
to be updated regularly to reflect progress,
challenges, and spending related to their
designated outcomes.
Get to know...Blueberry School
K-9
Contact Shannon Lillywhite
at [email protected]
2 Health Champions
Attend division
meetings and help
to create and
manage School
Action Plan
Core Team
Includes Health
Champions, teachers,
students,
administrators
Meet 1/month
Student Wellness Action Teams
(SWAT)
Pillar specific teams made up of
Core Team members and additional
student and parent support to plan,
organize and execute the promotion
of Nutritional, Physical, and Mental &
Emotional wellness
Meet 1/month
More from Blueberry School
Physical Activity
Let’s Dance Lunch Parties
Active Recess & Recess Guardians
Intramurals and Sports Teams
Active 10 Body Break Challenge
Click here to see one of our
Recess Guardian Infomercials
Mental and Emotional
Wellness
Personality Profiles
Kindness Month
Pet Parade
Free the Horses book study
FRIENDS for Life Program
Friendship Club
Positive Social Interaction
Health Lessons
Nutrition
Nutrition Awareness Announcements
and Bulletin
Blueberry School Healthy Recipe Blog
Crunch Days and Produce Passports
Get to know...Duffield School K9
Active Living
Intramurals
DPA Bins/Sessions
Walk Across
Canada
Walk Wednesday
Fitness Fun Friday
DEAR( Drop
Everything And Run)
Healthy Eating
Tutti Fruity Tuesday
Special Day Theme
Nutritional Snacks
Rainbow Lunch
Program/Passport
Monthly Newsletter
FACEBOOK pg
Milk Moustache
Earth Boxes
Contact Leanne Schram-White at
[email protected]
Mental Well-Being
Buddy Days
We Day
Student
Convention
HEROES
Program
Get to know...Ecole Broxton
Park K-9
1) Student Running Club Grade 2-9
A large and enthusiastic group of students trained and
participated this fall in all of the Division races.
Students wanted to keep running!
The club now meets some mornings
and after school and are preparing
for both the Journal Games and
the Klondike Games.
École Broxton Park cont’d ...
2) Lunchtime Intramurals for Grade 2-6
Students register and participate in a variety of sports.
Different grades on each day to build success for all!
3) Staff Fitness programs weekly at the school
A mobile fitness trainer leads Dance Aerobics every
Tuesday for an hour, and Yoga on Thursday. Participation
has steadily increased to over 30 staff which keeps the cost
very low! We recommend www.perfectlyfitmobile.com
École Broxton Park cont’d ...
4) Our new playground is always busy!
After years of raising funds our new playground opened
this fall. The new playground is a hit with students of all
ages and is keeping our students active and happy!
Contact: [email protected];
[email protected] ; [email protected]
Ecole Broxton Park Pictures!
Get to know...Ecole Meridian
Heights School
Health Champions:
Leanne McInroy [email protected]
Jen Blum [email protected]
Kyla Pronovost [email protected]
Carrie Hill [email protected]
Get to know...Ecole Meridian
Heights School
- Morning Messages
- Monthly Campaigns and staff/student challenges.
- Weekly staff fitness classes (bootcamp, yoga, zumba, etc)
- Tarmac Dance Parties
- Produce Passport
- Recess Guardians
- Bloomsday
- Intramurals
-SWAT Team
Get to know...Ecole Meridian
Heights School
Challenges:
- release time to plan
- finding out what resources have/need
- staff buy-in
Get to know...Forest Green
School K-6
Health Champion:
Lesley Cameron [email protected]
@lesleyacameron
Forest Green School cont...
Projects we are proud of:
- Weekly Fruit Bowl (The Healing Seed)
- Two Garden Towers and green
smoothies for all students!
- Produce Passport
Forest Green School continued
- Daily Phys. Ed., Daily classroom brain breaks
- 12 Days of Fitness in December
- Noon hour clubs
- Recess Guardians
- Wellness Team and HEAL Team
Still to come this year…
Winter Walk Day, AMA Youth Run Club, Big Crunch Day,
Gotcha for Goodness… changing the culture of FG!
Get to know… Graminia School K-9
Health Champions:
Morgan Saunders: [email protected]
Erin Chessor: [email protected]
Graminia School continued
Success: Implementing the “12 Days of Fitness” to encourage active brain breaks
during the month of December for all students from K-9
Main resource: Apple School’s monthly health campaigns
Challenges: Morning routines in classrooms from K-9 vary widely so the “morning
announcement” structure as suggested by our resource would prove disruptive for
some. We also wanted to create some buzz around the project and increase
enthusiasm for the project. This way, students would encourage (bug) their teachers
to allow them to participate if they were less inclined to be on board.
Solution: Having our SWAT team assist us in creating videos with a different staff
member featured each day allowed teachers to use the videos in their classrooms as
they saw fit. Many teachers told us that they would do the videos several times daily
as energizers. Also, each day ‘teasers’ about the next exercise or mystery staff member
were posed to the students to create more interest.
Graminia School continued
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xAm_f4JAg0
Get to know...Greystone Middle
School 5-9
Health Champion:
Melissa Kerby: [email protected]
What’s New
- Smoothie Program (breakfast)
- Spin Classes for teachers
- Spin Class for Students
- Ever Active Run Club
What’s Coming
- Salad Program
- Sensory Room
- Drop-in Yoga
What’s Improved
Increased Participation in:
- Ski and Snowboard Club
- Cross Country
- Running Room Games
- Sun Run
What’s Improved Cont...
More 7-9 Option classes:
- Hockey
- Yoga
- Sun run
More Classroom with alternate designs
Get to know...High Park School
Contact Glenn Thompson at
K-9
[email protected]
At High Park we have put a huge focus on our Healthy
Schools - Healthy Futures program. Some of the things we
have done so far are the 12 Days of Fitness and Kids in the
Kitchen. In the future we will participate in Winter Walk
Day and our own Winter Olympics.
12 Days of Fitness & Kids in the Kitchen
12 Days of Fitness Video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFNaQpE5NKk
Kids in the Kitchen
Get to know...Memorial Comp.
High School
Projects
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Staff - Student Commitment to
Fitness
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Conversion of Gym Mezzanine
into Fitness Area
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A School Vegetable Garden
[email protected]
[email protected]
Get to know...Millgrove School
K-4
Get to know...Parkland Village
School K-4
Mental Health
A school
committed to
continuing to
promote health
and wellness
started by the
evolve project in
2010
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Fun Friends/Friends
for Life
Success Breaks
Multiple Afterschool
Programs
Boys/girls Club
Weekly Counselors
Available
Free Pre-School
Daily Before/After
School Care Program
Contact [email protected]
Parkland Village School
Physical Health
Nutritional Health
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Weekly dance
day for the whole
school
Winter Walk Day
Terry Fox Run
Run Club
Jump Rope for
the Heart
Creative
movement
Yoga
Daily P.E.
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Produce passports
Weekly homemade
healthy hot lunch
Fruit/Vegetable
exchange
Let’s Cook Club
Milk program
Portion placemats
for all students
Get to know...Stony Plain
Central School K-9
Projects:
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Scheduled Daily Physical
Activity for K-6 from 8:45 9:00 everyday
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Fitness Room for students
and staff
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Lions On the Move
[email protected]
@mniebergall1
Stony Plain
Central School K9
Projects:
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Monthly Staff and Student
Health and Wellness
Challenges
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SWAT option (Student
Wellness Action Team)
[email protected]
@mniebergall1
Get to know...Wabamun School
K-9
The students and staff of
Wabamun School are
committed to creating a
healthy and active learning
environment.
Health Champions:
Teryl Pidhaichuk: [email protected]
Sheena Owen: [email protected]
Wabamun Takes Pride in its Healthy Initiatives
Recess Guardians:
The Grade ⅘ class works
with younger students to
promote positive play and
activity on the
playground and during
indoor recess.
Produce Passports:
Students have the
opportunity to learn
about and experience
new fruits and
vegetables in order to
help them make healthy
eating choices.
Fit Friday:
The entire school
gathers together on
Fridays to dance in the
gym, showing students
there are many ways to
be active.
Get to know...Woodhaven 5-9
Health Champions:
Laurel Lyster- [email protected]
Robert Coulas- [email protected]
Woodhaven Connects!!!
During our school year each grade level participates in three activities where
they either give back to the school, community, or on a global scale. Throughout
the year students, plan, organize, and execute their grade level projects.
After students have completed their Connects Activities they are given a chance
to share their contributions to the school community during an assemble. Here
is an example of a Connects Presentation created by the grade nines.
Grade Nine Connects
S.W.A.T.
Student Wellness Action Team!
At Woodhaven we have a 6/7 and 8/9 SWAT option class. These two classes are
designed to continually maintain and create a healthy school environment for
all. These are some examples of what the SWAT students organize and are
responsible for:
- school wide activity days (examples: fall fair/ Scarecrow Building
Competition)
- reading buddies to the students at Brookwood
- assist the Health Team with school wide events, such as the Terry Fox Run
and Meet the Teacher Night
- school wide recycling
Health Days
At Woodhaven we teach our Health Curriculum through various “Health Days” throughout the school
year. During these Health Days students are exposed to a variety of topics through interactive lessons,
guest speakers and specialists.
Topics that are covered throughout the school year include: Mental Health, Career Day, Substance
Abuse, Sexual Education, and Physical Wellness.
This year we have taken our Health Days one step further by incorporating student led workshops on a
variety of topics that deal with mental wellness and substance abuse. We are excited to see how the
students respond to being a part of student led conversations and lessons.
Get to know...Black Gold
Principal & Chairperson of
BGRS Healthy Schools Committee:
Cheryl Hafso - [email protected]
BGRS Healthy Schools website:
https://sites.google.com/site/bghealthyschools/home
Black Gold Healthy Schools continued...
Highlights:
- Alberta Healthy School Community Wellness Fund recipients
- 2012 Award of Distinction in the School District category of the Healthy School Communities Award
Social / Physical Environment
- Monthly rotation of bulletin board
displays
- CSH posters for schools
- Resource pool for schools
- High School Matching Grant
- Wristband challenge
- Creation of a website and
powerpoint
- Resources /contacts /best practices /
support
- Mentorship
- Promotion of Health teams in
schools
Teaching & Learning
- Prof. Development Sessions
- Contests - Rainbow Lunch,
Eat This, Not that
- School Health Champions
mtgs.
- Health agenda items at monthly
School & Admin. meetings
- School visits by Lead teacher
- Healthy School Cohort
- SHCs attend school council
meetings
Healthy School Policy
Partnerships & Services
- Grassroots approach to
District Health &
Wellness
policy development
- Surveys and Yearly
evaluations involving all
stakeholders.
- Healthy school policy and
practice approached
through
discussions at the
administration and school
level, and through school
goal setting.
- School Board,
Superintendent,
District Lead teacher,
Administrators, School
Health
Champions, School Staff,
Central Office, and BGRS
Healthy School Committee
- Students & School Councils
- EverActive Schools, Alberta
Wellness Fund, and Alberta
Health Services, City of
Leduc, Leduc Rec. Centre &
Beaumont AquaFit Centre
Black Gold Healthy Schools Lead Teacher
Lead Teacher of BGRS Healthy Schools
Committee and Elementary Physical Education:
Lynn Bonnah - [email protected]
BGRS Healthy Schools website:
https://sites.google.com/site/bghealthyschools/home
Black Gold School Health Champions...
Highlights:
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Health Champion in every school
District Display materials and Poster rotation
Shared Equipment Pool
School Visits to network and share practices
Wristband Challenge and recreation partnerships
Community Partnerships
Get to know...Black Gold
LINSFORD PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
Principal and BGRS Healthy Schools committee member - Ann Oppermann
HEALTHY LIVING:
● Cross Grade Activities (snow sculpturing, snowshoeing, skiing, skating, swimming; classroom
activities - music, computer & gym use, reading buddies)
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Cross Grade Clubs (REC, PAL, Intramurals, Community Service)
● Healthy Snack and Healthy homemade hot lunches (Parent Organized)
MENTAL WELLNESS:
● Friends for Life programming (teacher trained)
● Public Health Services - nutrition, dental, anti smoking, hygiene
● Mental Wellness focus groups (counsellor & teacher led topics based on student needs: coping
with grief, divorce, anger/frustration, anxiety, bullying, conflict resolution, friendship, social skill
development, understanding & dealing with emotions etc)
Get to know...Black Gold
École Coloniale Estates School, Grades 4-8
BGRS Healthy Schools committee member - Marie-Eve Poliquin
[email protected]
Positive Social Environment: Spirit days, library club, cartooning club, grade 8 lipdub, Halloween family
dance, monthly assemblies, family movie night, positive messages distributed at Christmas and guess the
amount of cranberries and oranges to win a chance to wrap up the principal and S.W.A.T.
Healthy Eating: Mind your lunch (fruit program), Nutrition month activities, Rainbow lunches, healthy
posters, apples available in the office as a supplement to lunches and for after school activities (donated by No
Frills), healthy choices in the vending machines, healthy choices available in Hot Lunch program and S.W.A.
T. food challenge (last year we did an Apple Challenge).
Physical Activity: Intramurals for all grades, activity days (Carnaval, ie winter and Year end), walk/run
events (Terry Fox, international walk to school week and Winter walk day) and grade level DPA sledding and
skating days.
Get to know...Black Gold
École Coloniale Estates School continued
BGRS Healthy Schools committee member - Marie-Eve Poliquin
[email protected]
S.W.A.T. (Student Wellness Action Team)
The team is made up of grade 4, 5 and 6 students (grade 7 and 8 have leadership
option). The philosophy behind S.W.A.T. is that it is students who are promoting
healthy eating, active living and positive social environments in the school, with the
help and guidance of teachers. This is the 3rd year Coloniale has had S.W.A.T. and
the number of students who participate grows every year; as well, as parent support.
In the past year, S.W.A.T. has been added to the monthly School Council, Staff
meeting and assembly agendas. With the support of School Council, S.W.A.T. was
able to purchase team t-shirts, that make the group recognizable at events, as well as
sponsor an Apple Challenge. S.W.A.T. is also working with the C.A.P. (community
attachment purpose) mentors and School Counselor to provide additional support.
Get to know...Black Gold
School Health Champion: Cindy Beaumont [email protected]
New Sarepta Elementary School
Rainbow Lunch
Milk Program
Reverse Lunch
Healthy snacks before
recess
Canada’s Food Guide
Healthier classroom
party snacks
Healthy Eating
Active classroom parties
Walk to School Week
Winter Walk
Terry Fox Run
Intramurals
School sport teams
Playground games
Walk Across Canada
Take Me Outside Challenge
Active Living
Family Movie Night
Family Dance
Grade Level/Character Ed.
Spirit days
Dufflebag Theatre/Hoja
Oratory
Reading Buddies
Staff functions
Caught You Being Good
Christmas Concerts
Assemblies
Positive Social Environment