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30 Sep Healthy Active Learning

Posted at 14:02h in Key Documents by Kim Tucker

Healthy Active Learning is a new Wellbeing Budget initiative that will promote and improve healthy eating and physical activity in schools, kura and early learning services across Aotearoa. Healthy Active Learning is a joint initiative from the Ministry of Health, Ministry of Education and Sport New...

26 Sep The relationship between transport-to-school habits and physical activity in a sample of New Zealand adolescents

Posted at 12:42h in Healthy Environments by Kim Tucker

Adolescents using active transport (AT) to school have higher levels of physical activity (PA) compared with motorized transport (MT) users. This study compared school day and weekend day PA in adolescents using AT, MT, or combined AT and MT (AT + MT) to travel to school....

26 Apr Fresh Approach to PE and Physical Activity in Schools

Posted at 13:38h in Healthy Education by Alison Pask

Sport NZ is doubling the reach of its Play.sport pilot by adding 40 new primary and intermediate schools in Waikato and Southland in partnership with regional sports trusts Sport Waikato and Sport Southland. “We want everyone in New Zealand to have a life-long love of being...

22 Nov Ka Pai Kai Rotorua

Posted at 15:33h in Healthy Education, Food Security by Alison Pask

Jasmin Jackson, nutrition advisor for the Heart Foundation based in Rotorua, shares her enthusiasm for improving both learning and health outcomes for children in Rotorua. The Heart Foundation has been supporting schools to improve their canteens and tuckshops across the country for many years. Jasmin has...

19 Sep Health Promoting Schools Impact on Targeted Student Outcomes

Posted at 11:42h in Healthy Systems by Alison Pask

Dr Heidi Leeson has conducted an external evaluation of Health promoting schools (HPS). After crunching through a great deal of data, she concluded effective involvement in HPS can explain: 60% of the increases in attendance observed in HPS schools; 42% of the decreases in stand-downs and suspensions; and 29%...

18 Aug Retailers Band Together in Bell Block to Stop Selling Sugary Drinks to Students Before School

Posted at 14:53h in Healthy Community by Alison Pask

Taranaki District Health Board (TDHB) Health Promoter, Jill Nicholls, has been working with schools and dairies in Bell Block to reduce the sugar consumption of Taranaki kids. ‘We are very excited to be the first in New Zealand to take this approach within our community...

14 Aug Water Only School Toolkit

Posted at 15:35h in Healthy Education by Alison Pask

This toolkit has been designed to provide schools with information and resources to enable them to successfully adopt and implement a water-only policy. This resource includes: How is success measured?; frequently asked questions about going water-only; Case study - Ōtaki College Composite School; Case study - Brooklyn School; Case study -...

10 Aug Nourishing Futures With Better Kai

Posted at 11:41h in Healthy Community by Alison Pask

Community and Public Health West Coast developed this resource for parents of toddlers and young children. "This booklet is designed to help parents with all things nutrition for their little one, to set them up for healthy habits throughout their life"....

09 Aug Ranui Power Pack – a healthier snack pack for schools

Posted at 10:04h in Healthy Community by Alison Pask

It is known that primary school children eat approximately one-third of their daily food intake at school, but is it healthy food? Year 5 students at a West Auckland primary school think so, and came up with a healthy lunch idea to prove it. Students...

09 Aug Cluster randomised trial of a school-community child health promotion and obesity prevention intervention: findings from the evaluation of fun ‘n healthy in Moreland!

Posted at 09:53h in Healthy Education by Alison Pask

Abstract Background Multi-level, longer-term obesity prevention interventions that focus on inequalities are scarce. Fun ‘n healthy in Moreland! aimed to improve child adiposity, school policies and environments, parent engagement, health behaviours and child wellbeing. Methods All children from primary schools in an inner urban, culturally diverse and economically disadvantaged area in...

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