The rationale for this promising practice is to help keep students’ energy and brain activity high and healthy; to take mental breaks after periods of learning and to integrate movement into curriculum learning.
The process can take many forms. Here are some examples of how to integrate movement into classroom routines:
Rationale:
Collecting Kids-Neufeld Based
Building Relationships
Taking Care of Kids
Provide snacks/food when students are hungry, need regulation, or need extra care.
School provides extra snacks and/or lunches when necessary.
May want to set up a “kitchen cupboard” for students (community may donate to this cupboard).
Supporting Documents – Neufeld, Alberta Health – healthy eating
The Healthy Minds Healthy Children site provides education and consultation for Alberta professionals working in child and adolescent addictions and mental health.
Ever Active Schools (EAS) is a provincial initiative designed to assist school communities in addressing and creating healthy school communities. EAS contributes to the healthy development of children and youth by fostering social and physical environments that support improving the health and learning outcomes of students in Alberta.
Schools engaged with EAS are actively supported to assess wellness in their school community and participate through a comprehensive school health approach that addresses health and education goals and improving the social outcomes of children and youth in Alb
ARACY provides Australia’s first evidence-based framework for national child and youth wellbeing (0-24), The Nest Action Agenda.
Developed through extensive consultation with over 3,700 children, young people and adults and 150 consultation partners with research and sector expertise (2010-2013), The Nest sets out the most effective ways to achieve the outcomes which matter most if Australia’s children and young people are to fare better.
These outcomes are love and safety, health, education, the material basics of life, social and community participation and a positive sense of culture and identity.
ARACY provides Australia’s first evidence-based framework for national child and youth wellbeing (0-24), The Nest Action Agenda.
Developed through extensive consultation with over 3,700 children, young people and adults and 150 consultation partners with research and sector expertise (2010-2013), The Nest sets out the most effective ways to achieve the outcomes which matter most if Australia’s children and young people are to fare better.
These outcomes are love and safety, health, education, the material basics of life, social and community participation and a positive sense of culture and identity.
To bring about these changes The Nest offers six priority directions – and a range of ‘best buy’ approaches to deliver them – amounting to a blueprint or road map for national child and youth wellbeing.
As well as signalling what to do, The Nest also suggests how to go about this work through six Operating Principles which are the hallmarks of best practice in social and community service delivery.
Finally, The Nest includes measurable goals to track the progress made by our collective action against national and international indicators of child and youth wellbeing. ARACY provides a national snapshot of progress against some of these in its periodic Report Card. This snapshot shows us what child and youth wellbeing could look like in Australia, and measures the success of our collective efforts at points in time (2008; 2013).
See how The Nest is being used to frame work which improves child and youth wellbeing in Australia.