St. Joseph’s Academy, Lamaline
On Friday, October 9th, St. Joseph’s Academy participated in the annual Living Healthy Commotion. The day started with students working on living healthy banners that have been placed on the walls throughout the school for everyone to see. All classes also participated in various relay races in the gymnasium. Classes were provided with fruit kabobs during the nutrition break and to reinforce the importance of healthy eating, each class wore colours to represent a healthy food choice. To finish the active day, classes played the teachers in a fun game of dodge ball. It was a great day for everyone who participated and drove home the message that healthy living and active participation are important to all ages and can be lots of fun!!!

Virginia Park Elementary, St. John’s
The students and staff at Virginia Park Elementary celebrated health and wellness during their Living Healthy Commotion Day on Friday, October 9th. The afternoon was filled with art, physical activity and a healthy snack. Students participated in an activity centred around Canada’s Food Guide, dances in the gymnasium as well as a fruit and vegetable tasting to finish the day off! It was a very fun day that got everyone moving and was a great way to motivate everyone to stay active.

Amalgamted Academy, Bay Roberts
Amalgamated Academy’s students and staff enjoyed participating in the annual Living Healthy Commotions Day, Friday, October 9th. They kick started their Commotions with a Healthy Living/Healthy Eating poster contest. A variety of prizes were distributed to students in all grade levels. A brisk walk in support of the Terry Fox Foundation and a classroom fitness DVD workout followed by a healthy snack for 765 student/staff was enjoyed by all. A special thank you goes to the school community of Amalgamated Academy for their efforts in helping create a healthy school culture.

Harbour Grace Primary, Harbour Grace
Students at Harbour Grace Primary have been busy promoting Healthy Habits since the school year began. They continued with their Fruity Friday tradition of eating healthy snacks. A contest was held to choose a new name. The winning entry was "Healthy Habits". Students also participated in the Terry Fox Walk, the Healthy Commotion Celebration and the Walk to Breakfast. Healthy Habits are alive and well at Harbour Grace Primary!!

Persalvic Elementary, Victoria
Persalvic students, led by the Panther Mascot, participated in a number of activities to promote physical activity and healthy living. Students were provided with a healthy snack at recess to encourage healthy eating. The whole school participated in a bingo game that introduced terms and definitions surrounding healthy living. The grade 8 class will be provided with an additional physical education class for being the winning classroom. Students participated in many physical activities throughout the day. A wonderful day was had by both student and staff.

Laval High School, Placentia
During Laval High School’s Living Healthy Commotion, students participated in an all inclusive cooperative games session and were provided with healthy refreshments at recess and lunch. Participation was extremely high and students enjoyed the opportunity to participate in fun activities.

Mary Queen of Peace, St. John’s
The Living Healthy Commotion at Mary Queen of Peace Elementary was a HUGE success! To begin the day, every student in the school participated with their grade level in a 15 minute aerobics class led by a certified aerobics instructor. Other activities were planned in the classrooms included FIT-GO, Sports Trivia Games and some classes even dressed up as their favorite fruit or vegetable! All students brought in healthy recess snacks and lunches and every student in the school was given their own bottle of water. This was a great day for both students and teachers.

Villa Nova Junior High, CBS
Villanova kicked off their Living Healthy Commotion day by having a delicious breakfast in the gymnasium. The entire school also participated in the Terry Fox walk. Students who were caught eating healthy food received a "Gotcha" and a chance to win some great prizes! Students were also excited about playing interactive healthy living trivia games on Smartboards and engaging in fitness activities. A blast was had by all students and staff. Go Vipers!

Davis Elementary, Carbonear
On Friday, September 25th, Davis Elementary students took part in a number of activities as part of Living Healthy Commotion Day. Living Healthy Commotion Day is a component of the Healthy Students Healthy Schools provincial initiative. This year, Davis Elementary launched their year long “Fruity Friday” initiative, the focus of which is to encourage students to eat fruit for a recess snack every Friday. Other activities during Living Healthy Commotion Day included a Terry Fox Run and students exercising while watching physical activity videos in their classes. All students at Davis Elementary enjoyed “Getting Healthy, Getting Happy, and Getting Active”.

Coley’s Point Primary, Coley’s Point
The adverse weather conditions may have hampered the planned playground fun but didn't stop students at Coley's Point Primary from enjoying some expressive movement in the gym! The exercise was fun and the fruit trays were delicious!

Tricentia Academy, Arnold’s Cove
Tricentia Academy certainly had an outrageous amount of ”commotion” on Friday, October 9th as students from grades K-12 participated in the Living Healthy Commotion. K-6 students spent time racing through obstacle courses, dancing their way through the Hoedown Throw-Down, raising the roof with the parachute, keeping all the balls in the air during a team juggle, and displaying their creative juices with some healthy message posters. In the afternoon, Junior and Senior students buffed up in the weight room, roughed up with some ball hockey, mixed it up with some volleyball, and laughed it up with some cooperative games and postermaking. Much fun, and nutritious snacking was had by all!

Larkhall Academy, St. John’s
On Friday, October 9th, Larkhall Academy celebrated living healthy with their annual Commotion Day. The day included a school wide participation doing several dances such as YMCA and the Cha-Cha slide followed by Fit-Go which was announced over the PA. In the afternoon the whole school participated in aerobics with John Mallard. In addition, fruit was supplied to each classroom to ensure all students had a healthy snack. Overall, the day was great and all students had a great time.

Living Healthy Commotion…A Student’s Perspective
Healthy Commotions Day is a really exciting time for St. Paul’s Jr. High School. 425 kids all get to choose from 3 fun activities to enjoy with their fellow classmates: either bowling, skating, or swimming. And, while getting the morning off from their school work to do these things, they also unknowingly got to learn about healthy living, and the importance of being active! I chose bowling, as did many others. I may not have been very good at it, but it was still a tonne of fun! We all got to choose who we wanted to be teamed with, so naturally, everyone chose their friends, which made it even more of a great time because you’d be with people you loved. Four buses, all loaded with talkative children, drove down to the bowling alley (which had been closed for us, seeing as there were so many people wanting to do bowling!) and had a good two hours of bowling time. After that, we packed up all of our stuff, and headed back to St. Paul’s for lunch, and our last two classes of the day, before we could go home at 3:00. The swimming and skating crowd did the same thing. And from what I hear, they also had a great time with their activities. The people that chose to go skating, needed, not only skates, but a CFA certified skating helmet, to ensure that no injuries would occur during the activity. Seeing as with skating and swimming, it takes longer to get ready (putting swim suits on, putting skates on, and helmets etc...) They got back to the school later then the bowling people got back. We all got the same amount of time though, whether on the rink, alley, or pool. Healthy Commotions Day has been in St. Paul’s for as long as I’ve been there (three years, I’m in grade nine) and it’s definitely something I look forward to. Spending a day doing something you like with your friends? –great! But, it’s more than just being a fun activity to fill up the day with, it’s also a really smart idea. Getting kids to be active now-a-days is really hard. There are so many things that distract us, from video games, to music, to T.V, going outside and having old fashioned fun is becoming a thing of the past. By raising kids’ awareness about the fun things out there (i.e. swimming, skating and bowling, etc...) you’re helping them out for years to come. It’s very, very important that we try to do as much as we possibly can, and it is so great to see, not only the school trying to help us learn about being healthy and fit, but the teachers in our school taking an interest, and doing as much as they can to make sure Healthy Commotions Day is as great as it can be! Everyone worked so hard to make this day fun for all of us, and I thank you. It really was a load of fun. Though, I won’t be in St. Paul’s next year to have another Healthy Commotions Day, this was a good one. And I can’t wait to be seeing what other tricks St. Paul’s has up their sleeve to help us get more active!

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