Alun Davies, Health Education Adviser, GatesheadCouncil Raising Achievement Service, Learning & Children read
Dec 2008 filming – clip coming soon
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Carole Robson, Healthy Schools Consultant for Gateshead read
Dec 2008 filming – clip coming soon
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Alun Davies, Health Education Adviser, Gateshead Council Raising Achievement Service, Learning & Children read
following pilots autumn term 2007
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Alun Davies,
Health Education Adviser, Gateshead Council Raising Achievement Service,
Learning & Children top
“We were invited to be involved in the NutriSkill pilot through the Healthy Schools Programme, and we were delighted to engage with our schools so they could develop their healthy eating.
We are conscious of Every Child Matters and the strategies on obesity, and we felt that NutriSkill would provide us with a project that would enhance the learning opportunities for young children in Gateshead.
The teachers found the resource very useful and they have developed a programme in the schools which has been well evaluated.
We have found that the NutriSkill resource has been very useful and works into our obesity strategy in Gateshead.
With the resources, we find that the teachers have got the confidence to deliver key messages on healthy eating, and the children have, through the lessons, been able to identify the different foods within the food groups. We find that the teachers are able to use that as part of their curriculum scheme of work.
We have been involved with the NutriSkill resource now for 2 years and it is our intention to roll it out into further schools.
We have had great success using the NutriSkill resource and we would recommend it to other authorities for use in their healthy eating programmes.”
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Carole Robson, Healthy Schools Consultant for Gateshead? top
“We do have a problem with obesity in Gateshead, so as part of our role as healthy school consultants, we do deliver healthy eating messages in schools. NutriSkill has been really valuable in this because we did have a lack of resources.
It has been very valuable to the children within their families, and while shopping, children have asked their mothers for one cereal rather than another because of the sugar content. They’ve also tried to increase their fruit and vegetables intake as well, which has been really valuable.
While visiting schools around Gateshead, it has been quite obvious which schools have had NutriSkill. The children have had a lot more knowledge than schools where NutriSkill was not available, and it has been really valuable to them.
The evaluation has been very successful – the healthy choices have increased and this is also evident in their packed lunch boxes.
In the future, I would like to see every Gateshead school with a resource like NutriSkill, because it is so valuable. It would be good for the new starters, together with their parents, to see the value of NutriSkill, and to give parents information of healthy eating choices so they could provide healthy packed lunches for the children.”
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Alun Davies,
Health Education Adviser, Gateshead Council Raising Achievement Service,
Learning & Children top
"The NutriSkill resource effectively supports teaching and learning regarding healthy eating and can be taught through a number of curriculum subjects.
Learners enjoy handling the bright, glossy resource cards and working on the large mat; linking active, physical learning with knowledge testing."
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