2: Student health promotion
Initiative 2 involves promoting healthy food options and providing the incentive and opportunities for students to get actively involved in learning about healthy nutrition.
What's happening?
The Ministry of Education is co-ordinating this initiative in 2007 and has undertaken:
- a series of high profile Mission-On events in primary, intermediate and secondary schools around New Zealand, involving healthy food preparation demonstrations, student presentations, and a high energy dance performance;
- profiling of school’s experiences, whereby case studies across a range of schools are documented as a means of sharing best practice nationwide;
- a national competition focusing on healthy lunch options and the importance of good nutrition. Hundreds of young people entered the competition and created their ideal healthy lunchbox.
Planned activities include:
- Further Mission-On school events until December 2007;
- Facilitating student-driven, in-school programmes to promote improved food and nutrition environments, and to encourage student to buy healthy options;
- Carefully targeted social marketing communications to maintain student awareness of the Mission-On brand and key messages.
Who's involved?
The Ministries of Health and Education are co-ordinating this initiative.
>> Initiative 3: 'Lifestyle' ambassadors
Updated | 21 Sep 2007.
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