HEALTH Promotion

How green is your canteen?

The Central Coast Environmental Education Network is challenging schools to reduce single use plastic and champion plastic free canteens. Schools that can demonstrate change can win a $50 voucher and will be presented with a plaque for their canteen to show they are the winning school for the term.

Schools can choose what steps they can take, from replacing plastic cutlery with re-usable (or compostable) cutlery, phasing out plastic straws, talking to their suppliers about reducing unnecessary plastic packaging or other alternative plastic reduction actions.

New schools can get involved by completing the online Green Canteen survey (on Rumbalara EEC’s website) and will receive a gift of wooden cutlery or paper straws.
Schools that have already been involved can choose a new action and tell us what you have changed by sending us a photo of the change along with a photo of your actions poster. Please send us an email to inform us of your schools involvement.

Email to Rumbalara-e.school@det.nsw.edu.au

How to be involved

1. All schools will receive a “How Green is your Canteen?” poster. Hang your poster near your canteen to show your support.
2. New schools that take the challenge should fill in the survey on the Rumbalara website and will receive free sustainable cutlery or straws.
https://rumbalara-e.schools.nsw.gov.au/green-canteens.html
3. Make some sustainable changes to your canteen and school and tick off the changes on the “Steps to A Green Canteen’ poster.
4. By the end of Term 3 tell us what you have changed by sending us a photo of the change along with a photo of your actions poster and email to
Rumbalara-e.school@det.nsw.edu.au
5. A panel will review each schools submission and advise the winner.

Green Canteen project is supported by Rumbalara Environmental Education Centre, Kariong Eco Garden, Community Environment Network, Central Coast Council, Australian Take3 and Cleanaway.

Ready, Set, Submit

By HEALTH Promotion

With only 5 months left to until 2020 to implement the NSW Healthy School Canteen Strategy, which is compulsory for NSW Government Primary and Secondary schools and is also strongly encouraged for Catholic and Independent schools to also implement. Why not join us for a practical workshop aimed at helping canteen managers & staff to work through the Menu Check process.

Bring along your canteen menu, get useful information and by the end of the workshop you will be on your way to submitting your Menu Check application to the NSW Healthy School Canteen Menu Check Service.

Our next Menu Check workshop will be held on September 3rd between 2.30pm and 4.30pm at the Health Promotion Office (Level 1/4 Watt St, Gosford)

If you would like to come along. please complete the RSVP form below.

Read More

If you cannot make it to the workshop and would still like help with submitting a menu check application, please contact Lesley Marshall on 43292057 (lesley.marshall@health.nsw.gov.au) or Chad Partridge on 43209716 (chad.partridge@health.nsw.gov.au)

Fruit and Veg month

By HEALTH Promotion

Fantastic free Fruit & Veg Month 2019 resources are being delivered to registered schools now!

access to brand new curriculum materials, with worksheets, that are linked to the new NSW PDHPE syllabus
hardcopy class posters and student stickers
canteen resources, whole of school activity ideas, family resources and access to the student competition

This year’s theme, The Adventures of Captain Fruit N Veg!, is all about making eating fruit and vegetables fun. How? By linking them with good times, superheroes, superpowers and adventures!

Registration is free, quick and easy. Just fill out the simple online form. But don’t leave it too late as stocks of hardcopy resources are strictly limited!