Food for Fuel
This month 1Seven is looking at the food we eat and how it can give us the fuel we need to be active every day and the nutrients that keep our bodies healthy and strong. Adopting a balanced diet and healthy eating habits early is a vital platform for life-long health and wellbeing. Find out about the three categories of food and the importance of eating breakfast. We will also look at what kids are eating and healthy and unhealthy snacking habits.
TEACHERS
Lesson: Week 7, Lower Primary Years 1 & 2 – What Are You Eating?
Students will classify the contents of their lunchbox into three categories ‘Everyday Foods’, ‘Think About Foods’ and ‘Occasional Foods’. Students will discuss the importance of eating a balanced diet for good health. [CLICK HERE]
Snack Foods Supply Excess Fat
Aussie kids are consuming two to four times the recommended amounts of unhealthy snack foods, a new study has revealed. [CLICK HERE]
What is 'energy' and where do we get it? What happens if we get too much? [CLICK HERE]
Just like a car engine needs petrol, your body needs fuel. It needs food! [CLICK HERE]
With the number of overweight Aussie kids ballooning, it's increasingly vital to encourage young people to be physically active. It's also high time to review what our children are eating. [CLICK HERE]
Busy Kids Need Big Breakfasts
What a child eats for breakfast may affect how they perform at school throughout the day. If they have physical education classes, a bigger brekkie is certainly in order. [CLICK HERE]
Soon we will be launching the 1Seven Healthy School Awards. This will include a competition open to all schools registered with the program and invite both students and teachers to submit entries, based on various aspects of the program. Stay tuned for more details.
This month all schools will receive a 2008 1Seven Welcome Pack, which will include materials such as the latest 1Seven brochure & poster. This pack has been addressed to the principal of the school.
We have been busy making some changes to the Curriculum Lessons available on the website (via the Teachers page) and most of these changes have now been made available on the site. The curriculum for Preps, Years 1+2 & Years 3+4 have all been updated, with the final Years 5+6 soon to be completed.
SPORTS KIT WINNERS
We are pleased to announce that the following schools are the state/territory winners of the sports kit for the month of April. These sports kits will either be presented by a Game Development staff member and where possible with an elite player from one of the sports or be couriered direct to the school.
Congratulations to the following schools:
- Longford P.S – Tasmania
- Holy Family Catholic P.S – Northern Territory
- North Fremantle P.S – Western Australia
- Gawler P.S – South Australia
- Iramoo P.S – Victoria
- Oatlands P.S – New South Wales
- Quaama P.S – New South Wales
- Coomera S.S - Queensland
We hope that 1Seven will assist and stimulate discussion, thought and action in schools, communities and homes. We welcome your feedback and please feel free to email your thoughts, comments and suggestions to: 1Seven@afl.com.au
Kind regards,
1Seven program – AFL and Netball Australia
