Learning How to Be Healthy

At Grove CE Primary School we want to promote healthy lifestyles to foster good habits and fitness. We want to give our children the starting blocks to grow into healthy and happy adults. From the very beginning, in the breakfasts we provide in the morning, to the water throughout the day, nutritionally balanced lunches and healthy snacks, we are providing a balanced and healthy diet for our children.
We provide breakfast club through Elite sports and the school lunches, which are cooked on the premises, are very popular. Children bring healthy snacks for break and the Early Years and KS1 children are given fruit as a snack. Children are encouraged to drink water throughout the day and it is available for them in every classroom. Children who choose to bring a packed lunch are encouraged to make healthy choices.
Our children love to be active. We have regular, active PE lessons and employ a PE coaches to lead sessions every week across the school. They celebrate their sportsmanship and skills in Sports Day every year too through fun competitive and inclusive games.
Every year the children learn how to design and make healthy dishes during Food Technology days. In the playground the children enjoy a wide range of fun physical games with their friends. We run many sports related after school clubs including: dance, netball, and football. These clubs are very popular with both boys and girls. We monitor them every term to ensure that children of all physical aptitude and gender are taking an equal and active part. Children at Grove CE Primary love to walk, cycle and scoot to school! Physical health and mental health and wellbeing are linked.
Through the Science curriculum children are given the knowledge and skills to enable them to investigate how their body works, grows and how to stay healthy e.g. how to keep your teeth clean and strong. Through PSHCE and RSE the children learn about making healthy choices, keeping safe, making good friendship choices, staying safe and having a good body image. These things are taught with a focus on learning the knowledge and skills needed to make good choices and class discussions with scenarios and stories to bring the issues alive for the children. We teach the children about how to be resilient as this is one of our values. We have outside speakers from recognised agencies e.g. Three mobile who run workshops on keeping safe and sharing worries with an adult. Children tell us that they feel safe at school and are reminded regularly to tell an adult if they have a worry. We are always here to listen. We know that issues such as obesity, anxiety or poor body image are complex.

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