Health Promotion

Central Coast Local Health District NSW

Programs

Make Their Meals Count

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Make Their Meals Count

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Make Their Meals Count is a NEW pictorial resource for families of children aged 4–8 years.

Using photographs of meals and snacks, it demonstrates how to feed a child using healthy foods over the day. The photographs are a guide to the type of food you can serve and how much. The food and meals can be eaten by the whole family, just vary the amount.

Sample meals over 4 days have been provided.

Meals and snacks were developed by CCLHD Dietitians to meet the nutrient requirements of a 4-8 year child. Based on the Australian Guide to Healthy Eating

Click on small picture for A3 Poster or here for A4 print version.

 

Bite & Bounce @ OSHC

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Bite&Bounce@OSHC encourages healthy eating and active living for Outside School Hours Care (OSHC) Services on the Central Coast. OSHC includes before, after school and vacation care typically for children aged 5-12 years.

Outside School Hours Care (OSHC) Services are valuable in promoting healthy eating and physical activity to children and their families by:

  • Providing healthy food and drinks
  • Providing planned and spontaneous active play
  • Teaching about healthy eating, physical activity and health
  • Providing food activities e.g. food preparation and games
  • Role modelling by educators
  • Providing a supportive environment to encourage healthy behaviours
  • Policies to support healthy eating and physical activity
  • Providing information to families

The  Bite & Bounce initiative supports local OSHC Services to meet the National Quality Standards for healthy eating and physical activity

(Quality Area 2 & 3) through the provision of the:

Healthy Kids Guidelines for Physical Activity and Nutrition in Outside of School Hours Care Centres

In May 2018, the Health Promotion Service partnered with our local OSHC Services to create additional resources to support delivery of the National Quality Standards in the OSHC setting.

Check them out

OSHC Bites Recipe Book: practical nutrition information and a collection of tasty recipes for breakfast, afternoon tea and special occasions in OSHC.

Bounce Cards:  Grab and go cards on a lanyard that can be worn around the neck. The cards contain practical strategies for inclusive active play and a range of games suitable for OSHC.

The Health Promotion Service would like to thank the Central Coast OSHC Services who contributed to the above resources. They showcase the knowledge and dedication of our local community in promoting good health for children and families.

Vege Adventure

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Vege Adventure is a one week activity to promote fruit and vegetables as part of the Crunch&Sip® break at primary school.

The aim is to encourage students to eat a different coloured fruit or vegetable each day of the week. We hope this will encourage them to taste different fresh fruit and vegetables.

The activity was developed for Early Stage 1 and Stage 1 (Years 1 and 2) students, and offers a range of resources which are available to download.

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Student Card – printable – fillable

Parent Letter

Early Stage 1 Teacher Guide

Stage 1 Teacher Guide

Images for Teachers

Vege Adventure fruit face 4

Fruit Face 1 small

Vege Adventure Resource 1 small

Vege Adventure fruit faces Thumbnail

 

 

Sincere thanks to:

  • Stage 1 teachers, students and families at Tacoma Public School and Woongarrah Public School
  • Central Coast Transition to School Projects Coordinator, Learning and Wellbeing, Public Schools NSW for their assistance in developing this resource.

Useful links/websites

While it’s important for individuals to make healthier choices, the environment we live in greatly impacts on those choices. Check out this website to find out how to graze green and to try out colourful recipes.

The Eat a rainbow website has links to useful resources such as posters, recipes, games and flash cards.

The Crunch&Sip Resource Pack contains:

  • The Crunch&Sip school implementation guide
  • Food and nutrition focused classroom activities that fit within the NSW primary school PDHPE   curriculum and also meet other  cross-curricula outcomes
  • Short lesson ideas based around healthy eating
  • Background nutrition information and helpful resources.

Find the pack here.

 

Munch & Move

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Munch & Move is an NSW Health initiative that supports the healthy development of children from birth to five years by promoting physical activity, healthy eating and reduced small screen time (eg watching TV or DVDs, playing on computers and small hand-held games devices).

Munch & Move offers training and resources to educators working in NSW early childhood education and care services. The training program assists services to implement a fun, play-based approach to supporting healthy eating and physical activity habits in young children. The program also fits within the National Quality Framework and the Early Years Learning Framework.

For more Munch & Move information and loads of resources, go to NSW Health’s Healthy Kids website.

As an excellent additional local resource, the Central Coast Health Promotion Service has created a series of infographics to support key health messages. Early childhood services are encouraged to use them in their newsletters and other communications to families. You can access a selection of infographics here, or contact the project officer below to request other options.

To read the latest Central Coast Munch & Move news, download our newsletter. For previous newsletters, click here.

For enquirers regarding Munch & Move on the Central Coast, please contact project officer, Jeff Smith, on 4320 9765, or complete the form below.

Jeff Smith talks Munch & Move

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Live Life Well at School

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Live Life Well @ School is a joint initiative between NSW Ministry of Health and the school sectors in NSW. The program aims to:

  • get more students more active, more often and
  • focus on healthy eating habits

Live Life Well @ School assists schools to:

  • develop whole school strategies that support physical activity and healthy eating
  • improve the teaching of nutrition and physical education through a focus on PDHPE programs
  • foster community partnerships that promote and support whole of school strategies
  • provide opportunities for more students to be more active, more often.

Central Coast Local Health District staff provides support to local primary schools for physical activity and healthy eating strategies.

 

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Q4:H20

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The Q4:H20 activity is a one week school/family based project to which promotes the concept of healthy drinks to children and their parents/carers and supports teachers getting healthy drink messages to families.

Students are encouraged to choose water and reduced fat milk to meet their fluid requirements. The activity was developed for Stage 2 (years 3 and 4) students, and offers a range of resources which are available to download.

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Resources

 

 

Student card – printable – fillable

Teacher Guide

Background information

Healthy drinks and Canteen fact sheet

Parent Information

Ideas to help kids and teens drink more water.

Infographics

Healthy drinks at home

Get your child to drink water

Fruit or fruit juice

After school drink ideas

More Resources

Posters

Out and about – Sport

Out and about – Cinema

At School – Bubbler

At School – Backpack

Canteen – Lunch Bag

Teacher information & classroom activities

There are four interactive whiteboard lessons with accompanying teacher notes. Please note that you will require SMART Notebook software as well as an unzip program to access these files.

More Information

Healthy Drinks

For further information please contact Jane on 4320 9714 or complete below.