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Bite & Bounce @ OSHC

By Health Promotion

afterschool care healthy food and activities

Bite&[email protected] 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:

  • Eat Smart, Play Smart Manual (Third Edition)

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

  • And the Bite&[email protected] Whiteboard

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.

Filed Under: OSHC Educators, Professionals, Programs

Vege Adventure

By Health Promotion

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. 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 that are available to download. Watch the video below to see how it works.


Vege Adventure resources

  • Student card – printable or fillable
  • Parent letter
  • Early Stage 1 Teacher Guide
  • Stage 1 Teacher Guide
  • Images for teachers – click on the thumbnails below

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

Useful links

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

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

Crunch&Sip Resource Pack

Vege Adventure is an initiative that supports the Crunch&Sip program. To get your school involved with Crunch&Sip, download the Crunch&Sip Resource Pack here. The pack contains:

  • 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.

Subscribe

To receive updates about Vege Adventure resources straight to your inbox, join our mailing list. Just complete the form below.

Filed Under: Kids & Families, Live Life Well @ School, Professionals, Programs

Munch & Move

By Health Promotion

children birth to 5 years promoting physical activity, healthy eating, Munch & Move

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 (e.g. 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 our project officer below to request other options.

Newsletters and fact sheets

To read the latest Central Coast Munch & Move news, download our newsletter. You can also sign up to receive the newsletter straight into your inbox – just complete the form below.

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Additionally, our Good Bite fact sheets, developed by the Central Coast Public Health and Community Nutrition team, contain recipes and advice for parents and carers of children ages 0–5 years old. Read the latest edition for parents and carers here, and the dedicated version for childcare staff here.

You can view previous Munch & Move newsletters and Good Bite fact sheets here.

Contact

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

 

 

Filed Under: Healthy Weight, Kids & Families, Programs

Live Life Well at School

By Health Promotion

Live Life Well at School

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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Filed Under: Live Life Well @ School, Professionals, Programs

Q4:H20

By Health Promotion

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The Q4:H20 activity is a one-week school/family-based project that 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 that are available to download. Watch the video below to learn more about the activity.


Teacher resources

Q4:H20 activity resources:

  • Background information
  • Student card – printable – fillable
  • Teacher Guide
  • Healthy drinks and canteen fact sheet

Supporting promotional posters:

  • Out and about – Sport
  • Out and about – Cinema
  • At School – Bubbler
  • At School – Backpack
  • Canteen – Lunch Bag

Parent information

Healthy Kids fact sheet with 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

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.

Related links

Healthy drinks

Thirsty? Choose Water! website

Subscribe

Join the Q4:H20 mailing list to receive updates about this resource.


Contact

To find out more information, contact Nina Kingon on 4320 9700 or complete the form below.

Filed Under: Healthy Weight, Live Life Well @ School, Professionals, Programs Tagged With: drinks, water

Crunch&Sip

By Health Promotion

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Crunch&Sip® is a set time in primary schools for students to ‘refuel’ on vegetables, salad and fruit and ‘rehydrate’ with water. Students who are not hungry and are well hydrated perform better in the classroom, show increased concentration, and are less likely to be irritable and disruptive.

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.

Useful Links

Help students choose water as a drink.

Did you know 56% of primary and 80% of secondary school students do not eat the recommended daily amount of vegetables?   For tips and ideas visit the following link.

Find out which foods to eat and how much.

This easy to read chart shows the rainbow colours of fruit and vegetables and their health benefits.

Filed Under: Healthy Weight, Professionals, Programs

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