Live Life Well @ School Resources

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Crunch&Sip® Resources

Crunch&Sip® Resources: Crunch&Sip® encourages children to eat more fruits and vegetables at school. Promote and implement this program at your school with these helpful resources.

Fundamental Movement Skills

Get Skilled, Get Active: Find support and ideas for learning, programming, teaching, observing and assessing fundamental movement skills.

Fundamental Movement Skills in Action booklet: Learn practical and easy game ideas for each fundamental movement skill for every stage and different skill level.

Resources to Get Kids Moving

Classroom Energisers and Brain Breaks

Learning can be tiring for kids! Taking short brain breaks every 25-30 minutes:

improves behaviour and concentration
increases physical activity
helps manage emotions and
enhance learning outcomes.

GoTime! Energisers: Developed by Good for Kids, Good for Life.

Brain Breaks: Developed by Northern Sydney Local Health District.

School Events - Active Travel

National Ride2School Day: Register your school and encourage students to ride, walk, scoot or skate to school on Friday 19th March 2021.

Walk Safely to School Day: Register your school and encourage your students and school community to walk and commute safely to school on Friday 14th May 2021.

Teaching Resources

Fast Starts: Fast Starts helps children engage in moderate to vigorous physical activity (huff 'n' puff) with minimal rules within 2 minutes, practising fundamental movement skills and tactical and creative movement.

Playing for Life: The Playing for Life activity cards adopt a game sense approach to teaching games and sport. They are aligned to Australian Curriculum teaching outcomes and support the development of children’s skills, confidence and lifelong interest in sport.

Yulunga Traditional Indigenous Games: A selection of games and activities from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander societies all around Australia. It provides an opportunity to learn about, appreciate and experience aspects of Indigenous culture.

Sports Ability: Inclusive activity cards designed to assist the delivery of sports-based activities that cater for all levels of ability.

SOA Learn: Special Olympics Australia activity cards are based on the games sense approach and support the delivery of sport and physical activity to people of all abilities.

Physical Activity and Screen Time Factsheets

Get Active Each Day Fact Sheet: Learn how much activity your kids should be doing everyday and some practical tips to be more active.

Turn off the Screens Fact Sheet: Learn how much time your children should spend in front of screens and how you can manage screen time at home.

Resources to Encourage Healthy Eating

School Events

Vegetable Week & The Big Veggie Crunch (15th - 19th March 2021): Vegetable Week is a free, quick and easy school-based event for NSW primary schools. Click here to register your school for the Big Veggie Crunch at 10am on Thursday 18th March and join the attempt to break some records!

Fruit and Veg Month (23rd August – 17th September 2021): Fruit & Veg Month aims to encourage increased fruit and vegetable consumption amongst NSW primary school children through engaging classroom, whole school and family-based activities. Click here to register your school.

Teaching Resources

Taste & Learn: A 5-week curriculum-aligned program to support student learning and foster enjoyment of vegetables to positively impact children’s health and wellbeing.

VegKIT Project: Resources to support schools to establish an environment that encourages children to learn about, try and eat vegetables every day.

Phenomenom: Digital toolkit for teachers with short videos and lesson plans, designed to engage students in food education.

NSW Health Resources: Find a range of additional practical resources on teaching healthy eating in the classroom.

Healthy Lunchbox website: Find a range of healthy lunchbox tips and recipes as well as a practical lunchbox builder activity.

Nutrition Factsheets

Healthy Lunchbox factsheet: Find out how to pack a healthy lunchbox with food ideas from the 5 food groups.

Choose Water as a Drink Fact Sheet: Learn how much water children should drink everyday, practical tips to encourage children to drink more water and how much sugar is in some different drinks.

Choose Healthy Snacks Fact Sheet: Find some ideas for healthy snack foods, tips for planning healthy snacks and what foods to avoid eating everyday.

Eat More Fruit and Vegetables Fact Sheet: Learn how much fruit and vegetables we should be eating everyday and some practical tips on how to eat more.

Healthy Lifestyle Newsletter Snippets

Newsletter snippets are a great way to share healthy lifestyle information with your school community. Snippet topics include practical ways families can: