Health Week.

On Thursday 22nd February the "Get Hovingham Healthy" group met in the school hall, and Sue Mulligan from Leeds Health Initiatives came to talk to everyone about healthy packed lunches.
It was wonderful to see so many parents, children, school councillors and staff all at the meeting and we now have nearly 100 people who have signed up to help "Get Hovingham Healthy."
During the week before Health Week, Miss Fisher looked at the packed lunches that children were taking into lunch, and the majority of the lunches contained crisps and very few had any sandwiches in at all.

Health week was from Monday February 26th to Thursday 1st March. All classes from Reception to Year 4 invited parents to come into class and work with the children making healthy sandwiches.
The children in Nursery read the story, Oliver's Vegetables by Vivien French and talked with the children about healthy food and lots of fruit and vegetables.
All the children in Reception made healthy sandwiches and they used a special light box to help them see how important it is to wash our hands properly.
Children in Year 1 played the Balance of Good Health game, looked at the importance of careful handwashing and made healthy sandwiches.
The caretaker, and school bursar came and joined parents and the children in Year 2 to help make healthy sandwiches and pitta pockets. The children in 2Red also did lots of work on healthy foods and the Balance of Good Health to help them write a Healthy Eating Dictionary.

The children in Year 3 also enjoyed making sandwiches and wrote instructions for making sandwiches.
Year 4 did some wonderful art work with fruits and then enjoyed a busy afternoon making healthy sandwiches.

Year 5 made drawings of Healthy Lunchboxes and discussed healthy choices they could make.
Year 6 worked in the computer suite to make leaflets to promote Healthy Eating.
The week ended with Parents Evening on the Thursday evening. In the hall we put work from the week on display and Mrs Poole helped many children and their parents make lots of healthy sandwiches which everyone really enjoyed.

Miss Fisher has been in the dinning hall this week again and is looking to see if children are bringing in healthy packed lunches now. Many children now have sandwiches in their boxes, lots of them are made with brown bread and healthy fillings. Fewer children are bringing crisps and everyone is being reminded to only bring crisps one or two days a week and not to pack any chocolate in their boxes. It has been wonderful to see lots of fruit and yoghurt in the packed lunch boxes too.
Well done to everyone for helping us have a really successful "Health Week."