A Healthy Foundation

1. Fruity recipe:

   Every year, the school organises a recipe competition for parents to learn different recipes with the use of fruit.

    

2. Energetic life:

   Most people think that physical activity is all about swimming or ball games. In fact, physical activity also means things like racing with your kids on the way home from the market place!

    

3. Healthy diet:

   School and family are both important in providing a sustainable healthy diet of children.

Stage 3: Sharing Platform

Ms. Chan Kwok Po , Teacher

• I think the activities were meaningful. Our school has reviewed and improved the daily menus and fitness programme.
  
  
• The workshops held by the Department of Health gave our food preparation staff, teachers and parents substantial advice regarding nutritious diet and physical activity. Now our food preparation staff know how to read nutrition labels and choose the proper ingredients. We have improved greatly in buying, cooking and quantity controlling.
  
  
• Children were encouraged to do exercise not only at school but also at home. The result was good. Some parents said that their children asked them to time their sessions and even invited them to do exercise together.
  
  
• The parent guide of the StartSmart@school.hk Pilot Project include detailed contents of the workshop curriculum in relation to healthy eating and active living. Parents have a solid concept of what type of food is the best for their children.
  
  
• We took some time to adapt to new practices introduced in the project. We encouraged our food preparation staff to read the nutrition labels and compare them. At first it was difficult, yet they gradually got used to it. I believe that we can do our best if we persevere.

Ms. Ng Yuk Man , Chef

• As society advances, so should we. Our school cares about people most. We hope our children and all others will be healthy.
  
  
• Nutrition workshops gave me a lot of dietary information. Now I understand the difference between saturated fat and unsaturated fat. We should compare the nutritional composition per 100g of each food item.

Conclusion

After entering high school or college, most people begin an exclusively sedentary lifestyle, they spend all the time surfing the net, playing video games, watching television, etc. To change all these, it may not be enough by just asking them to do work out. Teaching them the right concepts is more important. Preschoolers are like a piece of plain paper; they absorb whatever they are taught by their parents and teachers. Therefore, it is important to give them the correct values and a good foundation of healthy lifestyle; otherwise it would be very difficult for them to go back to the right track in adulthood.