Making Healthy Lunches Happen
A kit to be used to complement classroom learning about nutrition
Simple tasks and ideas for reminding students and parents about the importance of a healthy lunch Combine these activities with the Healthy Lunch Day promotion and your school will show the community it really cares about children's healthHealthy lunches
Important for health and wellbeing Reinforce classroom nutrition messages Create active learners for the whole dayHealthy Lunch Day
Click here all you need to make it happen - running sheet, media releases, prize ideas, guest speakers suggestions, includes a case study
Kit Contents
Celebrate Nutrition Week by holding a Healthy Lunch Day. This kit includes summary page of what to do when, sample newsletter articles, sample media release, student involvement ideas, prizes ideas, guest speaker suggestions and sample running sheet.
Coordinator's tasks
Your school will need someone to drive the healthy lunch promotion. This page gives suggestions about who in the school community could take on that role and the tasks involved.
Newsletter articles
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Two articles for the school newsletter which encourage families to recognise
the need for healthy food at school and the important roles food, rest
and play in a healthy lifestyle.
Promotional messages
Short messages that promote healthy eating at school. These messages can be pasted regularly into newsletters, emails and class notes.
Mini posters
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A set of A4 sized posters promoting healthy lunches. To be used in the classroom as a teaching aid or around the school to raise awareness about healthy lunches.
Healthy lunch combinations
A two page flyer with information about how to create healthy lunches. This flyer can be used with students when analyzing healthy lunch combinations and sent home to help families prepare healthy lunches.
Recipes
A list of recipes with great ideas for bringing lunch from home. Recipe sheets can also be used as a classroom teaching tool.
Teacher support
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Two pages with information about how to ‘keep it simple’ when teaching nutrition. There is information about nutrition models, useful websites, and how to encourage healthy food at school every day.
Student activities
Two activity sheets to help students analyse and set goals about the food they eat at school.
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MAKING HEALTHY LUNCHES HAPPEN
COORDINATOR'S TASKS
Motivate your school community to think about the importance of
lunch
BE THE ONE TO GET YOUR SCHOOL MOVING WITH HEALTHY LUNCHES
Who is the best person to make it happen? Anyone from the school community
Principal or deputy Teacher Student group Parent or school community member
All the information you need – running sheet, media releases, prize ideas, guest speaker suggestions, includes a case study
Valuing children's health and learning
A great way to promote the importance of eating a healthy lunch Gets the healthy lunch message home Builds healthy school communities
This kit includes:
Healthy Lunch DayCoordinator's tasks
Newsletter articles
Promotional messages
Mini posters
Healthy lunch combinations
Recipes
Teacher support
Student activities
Feedback Fax back
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