11/09/2014 Advice for teachers, HKA News
Yesterday Healthy Kids has the privilege of taking Crunch&Sip to NSW Parliament. Hosted by Assistant Health Minister Jai Rowell, we invited some students to come along and show us how Crunch&Sip is done! Everyone had a lot of fun dressing up as grapes and a carrot as they had their photo taken with various members of parliament. Amongst the fun, we wanted to promote Crunch&Sip to NSW parliamentarians as a program they should be encouraging within their electorates. Hopefully, now they’ve seen the how the program works and the health benefits in action, Crunch&Sip will be taken up by even more schools across NSW.
Students in 45% of NSW schools participate in Crunch&Sip everyday and a further 25% of schools have received information about the program or are trying to get it up and running. Crunch&Sip helps ensure children eat at least one serve of fruit or vegetables everyday and that the produce that is sent to school in the lunch box isn’t returned home at the end of the day. With only 22% of four to eight year olds eating the recommended serves of vegetables and the stats getting worse as kids get older, Crunch&Sip is a great way to teach students about the benefits of a healthy lifestyle. Teachers report that it’s well worth the time it takes to have Crunch&Sip, to refuel and re-energise the students.
Click here for more information about Crunch&Sip or for ideas on how to make your own fun fruit and vegetable costumes.
