Healthy Schools
Eat Them To Defeat Them 2024
Eat Them to Defeat Them Campaign 2024 "The Big Chomp" Video
Fun lies at the heart of Eat Them to Defeat Them – for children fun is the key determinant of food choice and enjoyment.
Eat Them to Defeat Them is a game, a story, a joke. The kids know the veg are not real or taking over the world. What’s more, they know it’s a ruse to get them to eat vegetables...but it’s funny, unexpected and so they go with it and give the veg a go, then another go and another and before we’re done it’s just become normal.
The Big Chomp is a challenge to eat veg in the most fun and silly way. Maybe it’s chomping like a rapid rabbit like nibbleing on stick of celery or carrot, hoovering up a row of peas, popping a tomato inside your mouth or full-on face-planting your gnashers into a head of broccoli.
Here’s the challenge to you adults.....
Can you join in and lead the way? Can you show the kids your best chomps and encourage them to do the same? Turn an after-school raw vegetable snack into a game, have fun, and let out your battle cries such as:
“Eat Them to Defeat Them!”
“It’s crunch time!”
“You’re going down peas!”
“Hasta las vista broccoli!”
You are more than welcome to send photos or videos of your children eating their vegetables at home with you. Please send them to:
parentenquiry@marshgreen.bardaglea.org.uk
#EatThemToDefeatThem
Happy chomping!
30.3.23 Healthy Eating Video: Eat Them To Defeat Them! 😊
Eat Them To Defeat Them Campaign! 😀🥦🥗🥕😀
We have joined a multi-award-winning campaign called "Eat Them To Defeat Them" Which will be running between Monday 20th February - Friday 31st March 2023.
Each child has been given special mission packs. Catering staff and Middays have been given special stickers to award children who try new vegetables throughout the campaign... and beyond!
For more information, resources and activities please visit the website below:
https://eatthemtodefeatthem.com/schools
11.01.23
A-life Healthy School Workshop 👟🤸♀️🏃♂️🩻👩⚕️🥗
Today A-life Healthy School Workshops brought the curriculum to life with hands-on activities that were accessible for all ages abilities, mixed language groups and SEN pupils. All activities were carefully planned and prepared to meet objectives set out in the RHE, Science, PE and PSHE curriculum in a fun and interactive way. Check out the pictures below!
A-Life Workshop
Wow-The Walk To School Challenge 🐾🦶👟🙌
WOW is a pupil-led initiative where children self-report how they get to school every day using the interactive WOW Travel Tracker. If they travel sustainably (walk/wheel, cycle or scoot) once a week for a month, they get rewarded with a badge. It's that easy!
28.02.23 Wow Walk to school Launch Assembly
Milk in School
Please use the link below if your child is in Years 1-6 and you would like your child to have milk in school.
Children in Nursery and Reception all receive milk free of charge every day.
Healthy Snacks
Fruit or vegetables snacks are provided for Nursery, Reception and KS1 everyday.
Children in KS2 are invited to bring in fruit or vegetables for their snack at break time.
The School Fruit and Vegetable Scheme helps your child achieve 5 A DAY.
Fruit and vegetables are a good source of the nutrients that children need and form part of a healthy, balanced diet.
It's recommended that children – like adults – eat at least five portions of fruit and vegetables every day. But research shows that on average children in England eat only about three portions, with many eating fewer.
For handy tips on how to get more fruit and veg into your children's diet, read 5 A DAY and your family.
The School Fruit and Veg Scheme and your child
If your child is aged four to six and attends a fully state-funded infant, primary or special school, they are entitled to receive a free piece of fruit or vegetable each school day.
That provides one of their 5 A DAY portions, and the scheme also helps to increase awareness of the importance of eating fruit and vegetables, encouraging healthy eating habits that can be carried into later life.
There is a choice of:
- bananas
- apples
- pears
- carrots
- tomatoes
- easy-peel citrus fruits, such as satsumas
* We also offer strawberries when they are in season.