| Fairfax
Elementary
Cleveland Heights, Ohio
Hear, See, Do Healthy Messages
Hear
– See – Do is how Mary Murphy, school nurse,
is getting her healthy message to everyone at Fairfax
Elementary!
Kids
and teachers look forward to hearing Ms. Murphy’s
Healthy Eating Tip each week as part of the morning
announcements over the public address system.
Reinforcing
the “tip” during each of her visits to 6
different classrooms during the week, Mary uses the
Healthy Kids Challenge WOWS newsletter’s Healthy
Tips to Go, and the Setting Up for Success booklet as
resources. Keeping the information flowing, nine school
nurses and other staff see the weekly HKC WOWS newsletter
that Mary forwards to them.
Teaming
up with the PE teacher for a twice weekly staff exercise
class has helped make physical activity “do-able”
for Mary! Helping market the healthy messages, Mary
presented information on MyPyramid at staff in-service
and they were clamoring for more!
All
these healthy messages have been noticed! One parent,
who is also a physician, told her he was excited about
all the healthy messages seen in the school!
Think
about how you can use a “Hear-See-Do” message
to help kids, families and staff make AWE-some changes!
Linking Kids, Staff and Families
Using
an “I Can…” attitude and collaboration
to support student success, Fairfax Elementary is raising
healthy habit awareness! Some of the wholesome happenings
include:
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A morning fitness tip announcement starts the day
the healthy way!
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A Monday newsletter connects families and staff using
the information found in Wednesday WOWS and other
HKC resources.
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Teachers are stepping out to role-model. As an ice
breaker, the staff listed the different vegetables
they ate in the past week. One teacher "won"
with 18 different vegetables!
- Staff
meetings feature WIN-WIN’s for AWE-some C.H.A.N.G.E.
Mary
Murphy, school nurse, shares “I just had a teacher
stop by this morning to congratulate me on the grant;
and getting children and staff involved in raising awareness
about healthy eating. This teacher expressed that they
are so involved in educating and proficiency scores,
they forget about children's health concerns.”
Mary remarks, “It took me by surprise, because
I am ALWAYS concerned about health! I think we are making
small steps here, and it is exciting.”
Fairfax is keeping the information fun and addressing
time constraint concerns to enhance learning and enable
students continued success!
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