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Identify activities that will enhance the social and physical environment for students, staff, and community/families to support healthy eating.

peggyorbasli — 2022-02-26 21:36:33 UTC

Examples:
Students – engage students in planning cafeteria/canteen menus that align with the School Food Guidelines.

Staff – provide a comfortable, appealing and relaxing environment for school recess and lunch breaks.

Community/families – support healthy eating at home and at school by providing information to families on increasing access to healthy food – e.g., affordable healthy eating.

Identify activities for students, staff and community/families that will enhance teaching and learning to support healthy eating.

peggyorbasli — 2022-02-26 21:38:27 UTC

Examples:
Students – incorporate the School Food Guidelines in curriculum activities related to healthy eating.

Staff – support positive attitudes towards eating by not offering food as rewards or treats.

Community/families – offer information sessions/social media messages to communicate School Food Guidelines with the school community.

Identify any community or school based partnerships or services that can support healthy eating in your school.

peggyorbasli — 2022-02-26 21:43:10 UTC

Examples:
Students - form partnerships with Kids Eat Smart Foundation, School Lunch Association, and the School Milk Foundation to support healthy breakfast, lunch and recess programs.

Staff - support partnerships that provide opportunities for teachers to further their learning in areas such as food skills, food preservation or growing.

Community/families – support volunteers providing canteens at school-sponsored events to integrate the School Food Guidelines.

Identify how you use policies and guidelines that promote a healthy school food environment with students, staff, and communities/family.

peggyorbasli — 2022-02-26 21:46:28 UTC

Example:
Students – communicate School Food Guidelines with students.

Staff – offer professional learning sessions on School Food Guidelines and plans to support it with staff.

Community/families – work with community organizations that may provide foods and drinks to students during or outside school time to align with the School Food Guidelines.

Students- brainstorm with students to create and write a recipe using policy guidelines. Then make it!!

2022-05-31 11:59:53 UTC

Community/Families - include tips for healthy living/eating in monthly newsletter

2022-05-31 12:02:02 UTC

Community/Families - ask groups to cook a meal (such as Christmas turkey dinner) that follow the SFG

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2022-06-01 14:13:49 UTC

Have students design wall art that promotes healthy eating. Have Healthy Snack Treat Days for staff. Encourage community and family involvement when hosting events that involve food and food preparation.

2022-06-01 14:17:37 UTC

Hold information sessions for all three groups to promote healthy eating.

2022-06-01 14:19:25 UTC

Use social media to communicate guidelines.

2022-06-01 14:21:02 UTC

Seek partnerships in your local area that could help you to implement healthy eating.

Involve all three in planning menus; provide taste tests for staff and students; host staff wellness activities such as Wellness Wednesday and healthy recess buffets; use the Greenhouse to grow healthy foods; partner with local farms to grow healthy food.

2022-06-01 16:01:49 UTC

Promote the School Food Guidelines through curricular and non-curricular activities with both staff and students, for example, playing School Guideline Bingo; promote the School Food Guidelines on social media platforms; offer information sessions for all three groups;

2022-06-01 16:16:31 UTC

Continue partnerships with KES and milk foundation; implement canteen with healthy foods - have student and parent/guardian volunteers serve the canteen; look for partnerships with local farms;

2022-06-01 16:26:26 UTC

Communicate policy with all involved; create committee to help implement policy; incorporate policy into School Development Plan, particularly the Wellness & Positive Relationship Determinant;

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Students - offer a list of foods that could be made available and compile a list of likes/dislikes. Have the students prepare the menus.

Staff - have teachers align curriculum outcomes to healthy eating programs to engage students.

Community - maintain constant and open communication and promotion of healthy eating options.

2022-06-02 12:31:32 UTC

Students - curriculum outcomes in Health, P.E., Social Studies, Math, etc., met through engagement in healthy eating program.

Staff - model positive eating habits.

Community - have healthy lifestyle seminars to engage families and promote involvement in healthy eating programs at school.

2022-06-10 14:48:05 UTC

Students - complete surveys outlining favorite healthy foods; give students opportunities to suggest foods for the menu

Teachers - offer students opportunities to try new and different foods during health class/activities throughout the year

Community/Families - share ideas with families of fun and healthy foods that they can make together

2022-06-10 14:51:19 UTC

Students - regular introduction of healthy foods in curriculum activities

Staff - sharing healthy food ideas with students

Community/Families - regular healthy food newletters to families

Breakfast Program volunteers, Chartwells (cafeteria services), School Milk Foundation

2022-06-10 14:52:54 UTC

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Communicate through the regular venues:

Students: in-class lessons

Staff: through memos, staff meetings

Community/Families: powerschool emails/calls, school Facebook page, school website

Students

2022-06-10 15:11:17 UTC

Have students design the cafeteria space by selecting the layout / creating artwork in the space.

Have students in Home Ec select recipes and menu options based on the helathy food guidelines.

Grow items in the student gardens to make their own salsa or salad to share with classmates as a treat.

Community Involvement

2022-06-10 15:13:10 UTC

Encourage healthy food choices and how they impact us with visits to a local grocery store / have a nutritionist or nurse visit the classroom. You may be able to get a local or professional athlete to talk speak to students about food choices.

Partnerships

2022-06-10 15:15:06 UTC

Partner with local farmers. Students could focus on investigating both the environmental and economic costs of processed foods vs fresh and local.

Policy

2022-06-10 15:16:07 UTC

PL for staff on the new policy, info sessions during meet the teacher night and regular communication with families. Maybe a healthy tip each month in a newsletter to parents.

Social and Physical Environment

2022-06-13 20:11:19 UTC

Students - Engage students in the development of the Breakfast Program menu and the layout of the lunch room space.

Staff - model healthy eating and incorporate healthy food options for in-class activities.

Communities/Families - Engage families in our school greenhouse project.

Teaching and Learning

2022-06-13 20:16:58 UTC

Students - include healthy eating activities during curriculum delivery.

Staff - Offer healthy eating PL for staff.

Communities/Families - Use social media to promote healthy eating and create a Healthy Eating pamphlet for families.

Partnerships and Services

2022-06-13 20:26:39 UTC

Students - volunteers for our Breakfast Program and healthy eating promotions.

Staff - Offer staff opportunities to learn about healthy food choices through Nutritionist and School Health Liaison.

Communities/Families - Partner with local Food Banks to raise awareness of food insecurity and help raise money twice a year to support the purchase of healthy food choices.

Policy

2022-06-13 20:30:51 UTC

Students - engage students in the creation of awareness initiatives.

Staff - PL on Healthy Eating Policy.

Communities/Families - Use our School Website and Social Media platforms to communicate the policy to the community and families.

Examples:

2022-06-15 01:58:36 UTC

Have an event in September for the whole school community to come together and co-create the menu through actually making and sampling the food. (Students, staff, and communities/families)

2022-06-15 02:19:39 UTC

Ensure students, their families, and school councils are aware and have an understanding of the importance of the healthy food planning.

2022-06-15 02:20:26 UTC

Community gardens, local convivence stores, kids eat smart/breakfast programs, etc.

Staff and Students Walk to Breakfast

2022-06-16 17:25:38 UTC

Use the Walk to Breakfast initiative to have students and staff prepare a healthy breakfast. Do this throughout the year with other events

Health Course - curriculum

2022-06-16 17:27:38 UTC

Have students come up with their own meal using the guide - they can prepare it and have other students try it.

Kids Eat Smart

2022-06-16 17:29:46 UTC

Continue to work with KES on providing healthy breakfast options. Have a representative into the school from KES on a day where they help cook and serve the breakfast to the students.

Social Media use

2022-06-16 17:31:11 UTC

Use Social Media such as Twitter and the school Website to promote the Healthy Food Guidelines. Share Photos of Students participating in the prep of the menus and meals

Posters

2022-06-16 17:34:41 UTC

Have students make their own Posters outlining Healthy Schools and put them around the bulletin Boards

School Trip to the Store

2022-06-16 17:51:13 UTC

Take a small group pf students to the grocery store or Market to help find items that can be sold at school

Gardening

2022-06-17 17:48:49 UTC

Have students even more involved in planning our school garden and involve parents in the care of the gardens over the summer months.

Pop Up Taste Tests and Veggie Sales

2022-06-17 17:50:17 UTC

Students will use extra veggies from the school garden to participate in pop up veggie sales which will go back into funding our future gardens.

Leverage Digital

2022-06-17 17:52:22 UTC

Give students opportunities to share recipes, give healthy eating tips and demonstrate how to care for their crops via social media.

2022-06-18 18:35:58 UTC

Contact local grocery stores to form partnerships which will enable students to have easier/less expensive access to healthy food.

2022-06-18 18:38:05 UTC

Set up eating areas that are more engaging for students - round tables, comfortable chairs, easy access to condiments, etc.

Teachable moments

2022-06-18 18:41:30 UTC

Take advantage of teachable moments to discuss food choices with students to help them make a connection between how they feel physically and their learning.

2022-06-19 13:57:57 UTC

Have each academic department in the school create a coordinated approach to the topic of healthy food choices within the respective curriculums and then implement this throughout the school year. Each department could set as their goal to do this at least once in every class throughout the school year.

2022-06-19 13:59:27 UTC

Implement healthy food choices into social studies activities in relation to traditional foods from different countries and cultures.

Admin Day - Fill in all staff re: new policy directives! Little handout created with all important info to upload on social media for famlies too!

2022-06-20 12:36:08 UTC

KIDS eat SMART & Community Youth Network!

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Students

2022-06-20 16:36:37 UTC

Engage students in the area of healthy eating by encouraging them to try a variety of healthy foods with the hope that this experience will encourage a deeper dive into healthy eating and living.

Staff

2022-06-20 16:39:20 UTC

The planning activities within the curriculum which allows for more discussion and hands on learning in the area of healthy living.

Community

2022-06-20 16:41:34 UTC

Creating partnerships is essential for a small school like us. The costs associated with healthy eating can be high and as such, these partnerships are crucial to its success.

Students

2022-06-20 16:44:03 UTC

It is essential that the new policy is communicated with our sudents early in the school year. If they buy in to the policy it will be much easier to implement.

2022-12-19 18:49:38 UTC

We have many students from different countries. Allowing students and staff to sample some of the foods/ dishes from other countries as a cultural fair at the school.

Use our school webpage and Twitter to inform students, parents and staff of Provincial Guidelines

2022-12-19 18:53:34 UTC

Model

2022-12-21 01:51:07 UTC

Provide opportunities where modelling/promotion of healthy eating can occur. Admin can facilitate activities with staff and school council and then have staff model to students. Providing samples of meals that follow the guidelines will allow clear tranference to all stakeholders.

Engagement

2022-12-21 01:56:15 UTC

Allow all stakeholders the opportunity to actively participate in the planning of menu options and food choices that will be available within the school. Additionally, pro ide students with the opportunity to create visual representions of healthy eating options within the art or english curriculum.

Community Partners/Groups

2022-12-21 02:07:12 UTC

Consult with parents, volunteers, and community groups that assist/provide food services. Allow all the opportunity to become actively involved with the implementation of the program with the goal of fully integrating the new guidelines. Encourage all stakeholders to become aware of all possible partnerships that are available while encouraging them to learn as much as they can regarding offerings, preparation, and serving of menu items.

Communication

2022-12-21 02:11:12 UTC

Communicate with all stakeholders the guidelines of the new policy and how it will be implemented. Staff can be provided with time during an in-school PL session, students can be informed by teachers through information sessions and parents can be contacted through memos, social media, the school website, and curriculum night.

2023-01-02 18:55:34 UTC

Students - create promotional materials for new/improved healthy eating options

Staff - create a shared folder of "healthy" eating recipes. Perhaps instead of "treat" day, it could be "tasting" day with healthy food options.

Community - Food Blitzes to supplement breakfast program (e.g., oranges, apples)

2023-01-02 18:57:47 UTC

Students - again, have students create learning materials for others. They could also design promotional materials for food blitzes / drives

Staff - Once a month cooking class together?

Community - Social Media engagement - perhaps "slow" twitter chats where families can share healthy meal choices?

2023-01-02 19:00:18 UTC

Students - KES

Staff - PL / conversations with School Health Promotion Liaison / Nutritionist

Community - School Garden / Food Drives

2023-01-02 19:02:15 UTC

Students - Encourage student participation in "teaching" around the new policy

Staff - PL; staff input on non-food fundraising ideas

Community - Invited guests from community partners

Include student voice in the development and implementation of healthy food choices and events at our school

2023-01-09 14:40:44 UTC

Staff- Model Healthy Food Choices daily and during special days at school(ex. Halloween)

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Communities/Families - Support and Promote Healthy Eating by educating through social media posts, school webpage, brochures, email, etc

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Students- Taste Testing of menu items and offering suggestions for menu additions/deletions

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Staff - Incorportate Healthy Eating "Days" at school and/or in the classroom as a part of the curriculum

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community - Involve School Council, Students, and Community Members in our "School Healthy Eating Blitz" and Fundraising Events like Walk to Breakfast by inviting them to help prepare a Healthy Snack/Breakfast like Fruit Smoothies and Whole Wheat Toast

2023-01-09 14:57:04 UTC

Students- Work alongside teachers and school staff to reach out to local businesses for support for our school breakfast program, and special Healthy Blitz days etc

2023-01-09 14:58:24 UTC

Staff - Engage in Healthy Eating Choices PL and reach out to the School Health Promotion Liasion Consultant

2023-01-09 14:59:50 UTC

Communities/Families - Can help to promote and integrate the School Food Guidelines when volunteering for the School Breakfast Program, and Special Event days at our school

2023-01-09 15:01:51 UTC

Students - Clearly Communicate Provincial School Food Guidelines with students as a part of their curriculum

2023-01-09 15:03:20 UTC

Staff - Offer Staff PL around the Provincial School Food Guidelines, and invite the School Health Promotion Liasion Consultant to share guidelines and policies with staff

2023-01-09 15:05:43 UTC

communities/families - Promote the Provincial School Food Guidelines Policy through the school webpage, email etc for families and provide examples of healthy food options

2023-01-10 01:08:39 UTC

Students - Encourage continued student leadership in the Breakfast program. Focus more on working with students to create menus. Include a section on food choices in our student feedback sessions.

Staff - more wellness activities designed for staff members. Have students and staff work together to create menus.

Community - Expand partnerships for our greenhouse initiative. Encourage family/community involvement in Wellness Days.

Visit local Grocery Store

2023-01-10 17:47:34 UTC

Students - Teachers could have a fieldtrip to their local grocery store. There they can meet with the Dietician and learn about healthy eating choices and have a tour of the grocery store.

Follow-up Activity: In Groups, students could make healthy eating posters (drawing and labelling healthy foods) on Bristol board to say thank you to the Dietician and store. The posters can even be posted in the Grocery store to promote healthy eating in the whole community and to demonstrate students learning and promoting of healthy eating choices.

Students

deborahpeddle — 2023-01-12 20:04:51 UTC

Students to use magazines to explore healthy choice foods and create breakfast, lunch, dinner menus

students & staff

deborahpeddle — 2023-01-12 20:07:51 UTC

Partnerships with community foodbank. Fieldtrips to local markets and farms.

school volunteers

deborahpeddle — 2023-01-12 20:09:27 UTC

Have conversations with KES volunteers around healthy choices

family visits to school

deborahpeddle — 2023-01-12 20:10:48 UTC

Have Healthy food topic added to the agenda for KInderStart. Have healthy food tasting during KinderStart.

2023-01-13 13:54:46 UTC

Having students complete hydroponics and then allowing the students to help created a healthy meal with the food they've grown

Have a speaker come in to talk with families on curriuclum night or at another point during the year. Work with our community center parent on sharing the responsibily of this presentation

2023-01-16 15:27:49 UTC

Have someone from Kids Eat Smart and School Lunch do presentations for our students

2023-01-16 15:30:58 UTC

Staff and students celebrate Wellness Wednesday. Staff can wear their active wear and students/ teachers participate in physical activities in their classroom.

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Gardens

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Students and staff initiate vegetable gardens at school. Can become a whole community project.

Social Media/Website

2023-01-16 23:53:07 UTC

Promote SFG with resources and links posted to school social media and website.

2023-01-21 19:42:00 UTC

Promote healthy eating through the jr high health program. We started this prior and had students develop activity to share with the whole school.

2023-01-21 19:44:52 UTC

School council and volunteers help prepare healthy meals at special occasions.

Unlearning

2023-01-23 14:41:03 UTC

Students associate many activities we do with having a "treat". Watch a movie at Christmas, have a treat. Outside for winter olympics, have treat. Reward for grade 6 students who have shown leadership around the school, have a treat. The "unlearning" comes with the definition of a treat. We need to associate a "treat" with a healthy snack, not hot chocolate and cookies!

Modelling

2023-01-23 14:44:01 UTC

While it's ok to listen to old people talk about the benefits of healthy eating, let's use our older students as role models. High school students presenting the benefits of healthy active lifestyles will carry more weight.

Partnership

2023-01-30 17:58:24 UTC

Partner with the community hub to provide a space where students can collaborate with family and seniors in the community to make healthy, traditional dishes. This will also promote engagement with many of the 6C's.

Wellness Stations

2023-01-30 18:02:14 UTC

We aim to do wellness stations once a month as part of our SDP. One of our stations allows student to sign up for cooking. Instead of providing the menu, students will be asked to help make the menu with SDG in mind. Then we can have them invite some community or family members to try their dish at a later date. This will promote healthy food and communication to homes.

Budget friendly Options

2023-01-30 18:06:13 UTC

Not only should we promote SFG on our social media pages, but we should make sure budget friendly posts are available too. Typically healthy food is seen as expensive and we can share resources and options that are hopefully accessible to all families while keeping in mind this may still be daunting on some.

Post photos of students engaging in the creation and consumption of healthy food in our school. If we can do it here, hopefully families will see that it is something valued and can be continued at home.

Play for Fun Program/Participation Nation

2023-01-30 18:12:07 UTC

This is an afterschool program/partnership with SSNL that our PE teachers offers at our school. This promotes healthy living, activity and food choices as a family. K-3 students are able to attend with a family member for physical activity and a healthy snack provided by given funding.

Sucseed and Hydroponics

2023-01-30 18:22:07 UTC

Students are given hands on experiences to grow their own micro gardens in the classroom using Sucseed kits. Students have been eating the lettuce that they have grown themselves using the kit. They were also very excited to be able to feed a new pet bunny that one of their classmates has.

Partnership

2023-01-30 19:21:54 UTC

I would love to be able to develop a partnership with local grocery stores where there's a healthy food/meal highlighted and discounted at the store as the school healthy choice/deal of the week.

Leadership

2023-01-30 19:24:19 UTC

Establish a committee within the school to focus on implementing the policies and guidelines. The committee could include staff, students, community members, and parents.

2023-01-30 23:06:07 UTC

Do a school wide activity each week such as 'fruity Friday'. Challenge between classes to see who brings the most fruit as a snack. This opens lots of opportunity for discussion and teaching as fruit flavoured snacks such as 'Fruit by the Foot' will inevitably come in.

2023-01-30 23:09:35 UTC

At a primary age level use opportunities to discuss the difference between real fruit/healthy food and food that is marketed as being healthy such as fruit shaped candies. Talk about commercials for kids snack foods and whether they are honest or misleading. Instruction on this at a younger age helps to foster good habits later on.

2023-01-30 23:21:31 UTC

Create partnerships with locals farms, companies such as Succeed, dairies, and grocery stores to help students develop an understanding of the farm to table process and to plant seeds of positive feelings towards fresh vegetables and food.

Food Salad Bar

2023-01-31 14:26:31 UTC

Purchase (hopefully with funding) a salad bar that serves healthy options that students have grown through our hydroponic gardens

Local Chefs

2023-01-31 14:28:32 UTC

Reach out to our restaurants in the area to develop recipes that can be used in conjunction with our salad bar/hydroponics.

School Website/Communications

2023-01-31 14:29:46 UTC

Share some of the links from this PL. This can be done regularly.

Connecting Teachers

2023-01-31 14:31:43 UTC

Provide information on this policy and ideas to support it in our google classroom. Include similar information in our weekly teacher memo. Regular item on our agenda in staff meetings

Students can volunteer with our KES grab and go breakfast

2023-02-15 20:47:04 UTC

Identify activities that will support healthy eating.

2023-09-30 19:37:34 UTC

If your school is involved in PBIS, students who are seen eating healthy foods during recess and lunch could be given a reward to reinforce this positive behavior. Our school gives out entry forms to students who display positive behavior involving learning, helping others, helping the environment or for showing self respect. The students who receive these entry forms can win prizes that are drawn at the end of each week.

Have students involved in menu planning for breakfast program using the SFG

2023-10-16 22:58:05 UTC

Staff model positive snack and lunch options

2023-10-16 22:59:31 UTC

Invite Public Health Nurse in to offer smoothie days or yogurt parfait days to promote healthy snacks.

2023-10-16 23:00:26 UTC

Have students review the SFG and discuss the purpose of it and have sessions with other students to inform why we have the guidelines. Once people understand they are more likely to follow.

2023-10-16 23:02:23 UTC

Social and Physical Environment

2023-12-09 13:05:17 UTC

DSHD Healthy Eating Classes. Community Health workers in the school to cook for students, teachers and elders once a month.

Teaching and learning

2023-12-09 13:06:10 UTC

DHSD teaching students about healthy eating habits. Classroom times

Partnerships and Services

2023-12-09 13:06:34 UTC

School connection with DHSD.

Policy

2023-12-09 13:07:02 UTC

Policies are available for students and parents on our website.

More positive environments

2025-01-17 16:26:09 UTC

Students and Staff - We need to bring back monthly Spirit Days that allow positive wellness and relationship building (build rapport) between students and staff.

Community - Offer new ways for stakeholders to be involved.

Awareness

2025-01-17 16:28:46 UTC

Students - Offer in-class videos and activities to educate healthy eating and habits.

Staff - Offer a healthy spread at the next staff meeting and merge into the topic in new business.

Community - Have healthy eating information in monthly newsletters.

Link up

2025-01-17 16:30:51 UTC

Students - Have a class rep from each cohort to be in charge of getting student opinions and voice.

Teachers - Ask staff if a few would like to volunteer to be a liaison to look for more avenues and ways to promote healthy eating and habits to the school.

Community - Ask stakeholders if they have connections to local businesses who would like to offer healthy donations or services for the school.

New direction

2025-01-17 16:31:45 UTC

Student and staff and community - Give out surveys for students to voice their ideas in which way the policy should go and what should change.

Make the environment new and exciting.

2025-01-27 15:30:56 UTC

Avoid falling into a routine of only ever offering the same foods. Give students variety that includes safe, familiar favorites, but also integrate exciting new foods for students to experience and enjoy.

Kid's Eat Smart is a great place to incorporate new types of fruit and veggie offerings or new smoothie recipes.

Community/Families

2025-01-27 20:46:47 UTC

The school could host a cooking class to teach community members and families how to prepare healthy meals that align with the guidelines

Students

2025-01-27 20:48:34 UTC

Provide students the opportunity to review the school guidelines and develop menu items they can make at home or bring to school for recess/lunch.

Community/Families

2025-01-27 20:50:20 UTC

Ensure that volunteers know the guidelines and have their menus approved before school-sponsored events (sports, drama, canteen services)

We have a hydroponics system in our school and we grow our own lettuce and kale.

2025-02-05 14:53:16 UTC

Community gardens

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