Policies

__**Rushworth School Policies**__

Please find attached the __**Canteen Policy**__ for Rushworth Prep-12.This canteen policy is based on that of Go For Your Life [|Canteen policy].The School Canteen Policy is one that we may not have much baring on during the activity day, but we can extract from it during our cooking classes. This document makes it easy to decipher healthy from not-so-healthy foods by dividing them into Green/Everyday foods, Amber/Select Carefully foods and Red/Occasional foods. This allows the school the ability to manage their canteen in terms of what is deemed to be most important to student's health. Green team will try and implement the Green/Everyday foods idea in our cooking adventures. We will be using minimal red foods as these are only meant for every now and again and we believe that at school, students should bring green foods so that parents can treat and manage what their children eat at home. By using mainly green foods, we will be showing students that you can be healthy whilst enjoying really yummy snacks! Green Team want to promote the benefits of eating well and we will be doing this by abiding by the Canteen Policy. During our discussion before lunch, we will take into account what students normally eat for recess and lunch and help them work towards making better decisions about snacks if needed.

Please find attached the **__Health Promoting Schools Policy__** for Rushworth Prep-12. This policy was developed by Rushworth School Council. The main aim discussed in this document is "build a strong and healthy school community, knowledgeable of the services available and skilled in the making of decisions and choices". The school focuses on implementing this aim through three different areas: curriculum, teaching and learning; school organisation, ethos and environment; and community links and partnerships. This policy is evaluated every four years by the School Council. On Green Team's Health Activity Day, we plan to implement the School Health Policy by incorporating the areas of curriculum, ethos and environment and community links in an attempt to show the students that their health, and that of their school as an entire group, is all connected. We will be running activites, such as cooking to promote healthy eating, sports to promote exercise and running workshops on body image and self esteem to promote individual social and emotional health. We would like to express to students that health isn't just about being fit, it includes having relationships, being part of a community, feeling good about yourself and having good mental health. We hope that this day will be really positive and educate students on the roles they, their school, their families and their communities play in helping them achieve optimal health.



Please find attached the __**Health Foods Policy**__ for Rushworth P-12. This is based on the Canteen policy but structured to suit this particular school. As part of the Rushworth School Council review, a Healthy Foods Policy was developed. "To develop an informed appreciation of healthy eating habits within students" was one of the main aims of this policy. To achieve this policy, the school has developed a number of different implementations that we will be able to use on our healthy activity day including having lessons relating to healthy foods and healthy eating, encouraging students to drink water throughout the day, encourage students to be involved in healthy activities including the Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden and promoting healthy activities and healthy food to name a few. We, as the Green Team, aim to have resources and educational practices in place to be able to show students the benefits of Healthy Foods and will run a discussion before lunch to talk about the benefits of being healthy.

Please find attached the __**Student Wellbeing Policy**__ for Rushworth P-12. This was developed by the School council. The three aims of this document work together "to provide an educational environment which recognises, values and builds student wellbeing; develops students who are physically and emotionally healthy; and work in partnership with parents/carers and the community to support students." On our healthy activity day, Green Team will help implement this policy by encouraging individuality, differences and diversity, using positive reinforcement and encouragement, using the Kitchen Garden to provide emotional, physical and social health, providing a broad array of activities and publicly recognising students work and achievements.This is an area that students probably don't think about as much when they think about being healthy but it is extremely important. That's why we want this day to be really fun and energetic to show the students that being healthy carries across all facets of life and everything we do affects our health.