Project Energize is a project for Waikato Primary School children focusing on improving their nutrition and increasing the amount of quality physical activity they undertake. The overall goal is to have healthier children who have a sound base of fundamental movement skills, a positive attitude about being active for life and accurate, applicable knowledge and skills about healthy eating.

There is a lot of evidence that ‘physically’ healthy children are more likely to have:

• Increased self-esteem
• Better coordination
• Improved concentration in class
• Positive behaviour
• Improved memory
• A ‘healthy’ lifestyle attitude
• The fundamental movement skills that will allow them to participate in a wide range of physical activities throughout their life

• An opportunity for families to guide their children in choosing healthy and active lifestyles
• Increased awareness of community resources and personnel available to them

• • A Team Energize staff member to support your school
• • Additional professional development for teachers
• • Opportunity to improve the overall health and nutrition of your students

• Each school develops its own plan. This is done in consultation with the children, teachers, parents and wider school community

Team Energize staff are available to assist schools with a whole range of initiatives and projects related to healthy eating and physical activity. A few examples are:

• Professional development for teachers in P.E and daily activity
• Nutrition sessions for parents, teachers and children
• Healthy fundraising ideas
• Leadership programmes for students
  
  

See below for some handy tips to keep your children eating healthy, being active and having fun!

Eat Healthy

Breakfast Thursday, 9 July 2009 Whether your children love their brekky in the morning or can't stand the sight of a toaster before 8am, we have some great ideas to keep breakfast interesting, varied and nutritious. more...

Other useful website There are other great websites around the world with some fantastic ideas, tips and recipes to keep our kids eating healthy.

Go, Grow, Glow Poster

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See how you can Go, Grow and Glow with foods from the four food groups

Breakfast Poster

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What you can have on your cereal instead of sugar

Sweet Drinks Poster

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See how many teaspoons of sugar are hidden in some drinks.

Snacks & Treats are not the same!

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Ideas for healthy snacks

Whats in your lunchbox?

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Healthy lunchbox ideas

Sugar, fat and fibre content of breakfast cereals

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How to read food labels

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Water & Milk are the best drinks!

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Be Active

Kids love to play!

Help make 'active play' a part of their day.

Huff n puff, have fun and be active every day:

• Adults need 30 minutes or more
• Children need at least one hour

Healthy active kids = healthy active adults

Regular physical activity helps to:

• Maintain a healthy body weight
• Reduce the risk of numerous medical conditions eg diabetes, high blood pressure, heart disease
• Keep muscles and bones strong
• Improve self esteem and confidence

 

SPARC - games, ideas, activity planner for kids Healthy kids Push Play for 60 minutes or more each day - that's activity to make them huff and puff! Broken into chunks it soon adds up - and it's good for their development too. Check out the SPARC website for activity planners, ideas, and games to get them really pumping.

SPARC - fun games, relays and circuits for kids If you are looking for lots of fun games, activities, relays and circuits then check out the Kiwidex Manual by clicking here...

Have Fun

• Primary Schools : Project Energize
• - Meet the Energizers
  - Energized Schools
  - Who do we work with?
  - Research
  - Teachers
  - Kids
• - Eat Healthy Kids
  - Be Active Kids
  - Have Fun Kids
- Parents
- Energize Newsletter
• Secondary Schools
• - Newsletter
• KiwiSport