What a Commotion!! On September 28, 2007, St. Peter's Academy in Benoit's Cove caused a "Commotion". The gym was in motion all day long, students participated in the Terry Fox run (due to inclement weather) and a dance -a-thon. The Public Health nurse did presentations to primary and elementary students on healthier food choices. With this knowledge, the students designed healthy eating placemats. The Junior High students viewed a DVD on Heather Crowe's Legacy. They designed posters on Smoking and second hand smoke which indicated the smoking facts they had acquired. At recess, all students received samples of four different fruits. It was a "busy" day but thoroughly enjoyed by all as they learned about healthy living!!
Belanger Memorial School, Upper Ferry
Belanger’s Breakfast Club kicked off the activities for our Living Healthy Commotion. The students and staff sat down to a breakfast consisting of the 4 food groups including scrambled eggs, toast, cheese and juice. Throughout the morning, the primary/elementary students made healthy food name tags. Students created tags, acrostic poem style, using letters of their name and the names of healthy foods. The high school students were able to view a smoking information board and a cigarette cost chart which gave students an idea of how much smokers spend per year/ 5 years/10 years and 20 years. They were also shown what other things they could buy with this amount of money. Healthy living trivia questions were on display. This display was used to find out what knowledge students have about eating and living healthy and to get them thinking about it.
During lunch, they had an opportunity to participate in a fast pace basketball activity called BUMP. In this activity, two students at a time, race to see who can get the first basket, whoever does, “Bumps” the opponent out, this continues until only one student is left. We took this time to randomly distribute prizes (from the Western Regional Wellness Coalition) to those who correctly answered a living healthy question.
In the afternoon, students took part in the annual Terry Fox Walk. Upon their return, they were able to sample a variety of fresh fruit. To end the day, high school students enjoyed some spirit-based physical activities, such as a giant game of tag. The students at Belanger really seemed to embrace the concept of living healthy and enjoyed the commotion.
Burgeo Academy, Burgeo
This year our Healthy Commotions Day was a huge success. With a K-12 school, it can be very challenging but yet very rewarding, and we found ourselves focusing more on the latter.
All students participated in the morning activities. To start we had a short assembly explaining the day, and we also had some entertainment from the Kindergarten and grade 12 classes. On Wednesday of this week we had our 11-member Healthy School Team meet to plan for the Healthy Commotions Day. While this was short notice, things went very smoothly. The team organized all 164 students and teachers into 6 teams.
Activities consisted of a balloon game where everyone one had a balloon tied to their leg and members from other teams had to break the other team’s balloon. This was very well done and EVERYONE participated. After, there was a hula-hoop game where all teams got into a straight line and had to pass the hula-hoop from the first member through to the end member without breaking hands. At 10:30 all students were sent back to their homerooms for recess. We had free milk and a fruit and vegetable tray for staff and students (money given to us from the school board plus additional funds from our own school). At 11:00, students returned to the gym for a dance and the Terry Fox Walk. Due to poor weather we held this inside.
On Monday afternoon, October 1, we concluded the Commotions Day. K-6 students were involved in activities outside the school and on the playground. Students in 7-12 went to the ball field to play the teachers in a couple of games of softball.
Once again, the two days (one full one) was a huge success and we plan to incorporate future activities into our end of the month assemblies with the help of the Healthy School team members.
Main River Academy, Pollard’s Point
For our Motions Commotions Day at Main River Academy, our school completed a variety of activities that involved all of the primary/elementary students and almost every student in our high school. In the morning, our Nutrition 3101 class met and created four fruit platters. These platters were laid out in the Primary/Elementary and Junior/Senior high sections of our school during recess and lunch breaks. Through out the day, the K-6 students had numerous relay races for prizes of apples, water, and activity jewelry that fit on their shoe laces. During the recess break, our Grade 7-12 students had a volleyball competition to see who could volley the longest. Then during the lunch hour break, our Grade 2 to Level 3 students had a Free Throw Basketball competition. Later in the afternoon, some of our high school students had a fun game of softball. Overall, our day went very well and the students really enjoyed the treats and activity.
Lourdes Elementary, Lourdes
We started our day by having an assembly in the gym; The whole school population participated, volunteers and visitors as well. We began the morning with a musical physical activity lead by our music teacher ( "Wake Me, Shake Me".)
After this, the students were served a healthy breakfast (bread, fruit, & vegetables etc) Recess time was again used where the students took part in a walk/run around the gym (those who wished to) At homeroom time in the p.m. teachers used D.E.A/R. to do some physical activity like jumping jacks, skipping etc. To finish of our day, we took part in the Terry Fox Annual Walk. In preparation for this day, students made posters, wrote poems, drew their favorite fruit/vegetable and explained why. Also, primary students made place mats showing foods good for you. We not only kept this to one day, because we continue to promote Healthy Living. We have a Healthy Living Team in place.
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