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The policies implemented at Rushworth P-12 College include: - [|Health Promoting School policy.doc] This document is relevant to the whole planning of our 'Healthy Activity Day'. Our day must ensure it promotes students actively choosing nutritious foods and a healthy lifestyle. A Health promoting school takes action to promote and protect the social, physical, intellectual, mental and emotional health of its members. Our 'Healthy Activity Day' should be planned around the rationale to build a school culture in which students actively choose nutritious foods and a healthy lifestyle. Our game of 'Ultimate Frisbee' promotes physical activity and the healthy lunch encourages nutritious food choices.

A Health Promoting Schools Policy should: - Contribute to the implementation of the schools’ educational mission - Promote the health and well-being of all school users - Include factors related to both lifestyles and living conditions - Promote a clear vision and provide a framework for solving problems - Contribute to pupils developing skills and action competences - Be monitored and reviewed regularly. A School Health policy should include: Rationale: Definitions: Objectives: Rights and Responsibilities: Management: Action: A Health Policy should be ongoing and regularly evaluated to ensure the whole school community is involved and considered.

- [|Healthy Foods Policy.doc] The Healthy foods policy is essential to our planning of the 'Healthy Activity Day'. The school aims to ensure that any foods provided by the College are consistent with a healthy eating philosophy. This aspect of the Healthy Foods Policy is important to us, as student teachers in ensuring we uphold the schools wishes in relation to providing the students with ingredients they may use for lunch during the 'Healthy Activity Day'. This policy also encourages adequate consumption of water.

These policies are all relevant to us, as student teachers to implement our ‘Healthy Activity Day’ at Rushworth P-12 College. · Rushworth P-12 school adopts parts of the ‘Kids Go For Your Life’ Canteen Policy which is available at: []

- [|Student Wellbeing Policy.doc] The Student Wellbeing Policy is an imperative document for the group to be aware of before conducting our 'Healthy Activity Day'. As 'outsiders' of the school community we are not aware of the schools values, management and strategies associated with student wellbeing. The school aims to: -provide an educational environment which recognises, values and builds student wellbeing -develop students who are physically and emotionally healthy -work in partnership with parents/carers and the community to support students. In our planning these points must be a consideration and activities developed ensuring they follow the above guidelines. If Rushworth P-12 College wishes to modify or update their policies to further enhance their students health and wellbeing, the following websites may be accessed:

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 * __Potential Mishaps__**

First Aid: ** We need to be aware from the beginning of the day what the procedures are for any students that may need first aid. We will follow the schools procedures and use school first aid kits if need be. Supervising teachers should be on hand to deal with any potential injuries. Referral to the school nurse or appropriate personal will occur. ** Student Teacher unable to attend: ** If one of the team is sick or unable to attend on the day, then team members must be told straight away. We have a large group who are all very capable so we should be able to cover for them. We also need to inform the school at the beginning of the day. As future teachers it is important to be flexible in adapting to any changes that may occur on the day. Organisation is the key to ensuring our ‘Healthy Activity Day’ runs smoothly without mishaps.
 * Wet Weather: ** As we are planning to spend the majority of the day outside, if it happens to be wet we need to have a backup plan. If it is raining on ‘activity day’ we will have to play our game of ‘Ultimate Frisbee’ indoor in the gym. The game could be modified in this way so the students are still able to enjoy the game we have to offer.

__**Risk Assessment**__ - Check for glass, roots, objects or slippery surfaces and any other potential hazards. - Supervision - Adequate first aid provision. || Med ||
 * ** Hazard/Activity ** || ** Risk? ** || ** Who? ** || ** How controlled? ** || ** Risk Rating ** ||
 * Physical Environment/Potential Hazards- Hard surface, objects close to playing area, equipment, space, weather etc. || Falls, cuts, torn muscles, sprains etc. || students || - Yard should be checked by university students before ‘activity day’ games
 * Hygiene || Germs passed on through not hand washing, hair tied up to prevent lice and/or bacteria/illness || Students and staff || -Students must wash hands before making their salad rolls, and students with long hair must have it tied up. || low ||
 * Medical Emergencies || Allergies/ injury from physical activity etc || Students and Staff || -Students and staff must all be aware of procedures that must take place during a medical emergency or risk. || low ||
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** POLICIES ADHERED TO ON THE DAY ** A health-promoting school aims to reach everyone in the school, pupils and staff alike, and also to develop good links with the community and families it serves. To be successful there is a need for all stakeholders to have a sense of ** ownership ** and ** involvement ** in the process,  (Gary, Young, Barnedow, 2009, p.135).

During our day at Rushworth P-12 College, it was imperative that we understood and adhered to all policies provided and expected by the school. Following the schools Sun Smart policy was the first and most apparant one we needed to address as the majority of our day was conducted outdoors. All students had to be wearing a hat to participate and the student teachers each lead by example. Surprisingly there was little argument about this factor by the students, especially as it was a windy, overcast and rainy day. Therefore it was obvious this policy is strongly enforced at this school. We could have enforced this even more as a group by providing sunscreen for the students at regular intervals and conducting activities in a more shaded area where possible. These extra factors weren’t catered for but would be addressed if conducting the Healthy Activity Day again, especially if it was to be a warmer and sunnier day. The Health Promoting Schools Policy was strongly adhered to through the planning and implementation of our Healthy Activity Day. The Healthy Activity Day strongly focused on working together to support a whole-college approach to building a school culture in which students actively choose nutritious foods and a healthy lifestyle. As a group we contributed to encourage students to build a strong and healthy school community, who were educated and knowledgeable of different skills, non-traditional sports and knowledge about nutrition. This hopefully will encourage and contribute to student’s decisions and choices towards exercise and healthy eating after the program is finished. Part of the schools Health Promoting Schools Policy is to ensure community involvement in the College and community use of school facilities. The school obviously strongly believes in this policy by allowing us to be involved in this day and opening their school for the University to be part of this program. We were able to use all of the facilities within the school that were available, therefore significantly helping us to make the day a success. The Healthy Foods Policy was a strong focus point of the Red Teams planning and implementation of the Healthy Activity Day. The schools policy aims to: Both of these points are of particular importance to the individuals in the group and we were impressed to find the schools policy on this factor written so strongly. The lunch we provided was nutritious and flavoursome with a great variety of salads available for the students to choose from. Feedback from the students was very positive and most went back for a second sandwich or roll. Having a variety of salads for students to choose from was essential as it gave each student a choice of what they could have in their roll and encouraged them to be more likely to choose this healthy lunch than the alternative they had packed in their lunchbox for that day. As ‘leaders’ for the day we also adhered to the Healthy Foods policy by: Overall, the activities and lunch prepared for the day by the Red Team positively contributed towards abiding to the Colleges wishes in regard to their Healthy Foods Policy. The Health and Wellbeing Policy was adhered to on the Healthy Activity Day by the Red Team. Rushworth P-12 College aims to: · Provide an educational environment which recognises, values and builds student wellbeing. · Develop students to be physically and emotionally healthy. · Work in partnership with parents/carers and the community to support students. Generally the students were well behaved towards us as visitors to the school and towards each other. There was the common schoolyard banter between students when sledging during the game of ‘Ultimate Frisbee’ however nothing got too out of control. A couple of firm words from a team member seemed to bring the students back into line- for a little while at least! Students who were not keen to be involved during the physical activities on the day were happy to help out in some way and still kept themselves involved in the day. This contributed towards the schools point of ‘valuing and encouraging student individuality, differences and diversity’. The school did not provide or have a Physical Education or Sport Policy. I think this would be a great idea and be a real benefit to the school. It would help them to recognize their goal and aims for physical activity at the school. Some points this policy may provide would be : These types of points in the schools policy could really help their objectives and encourage more students to be involved in extra physical activity outside of school. Overall, Red Team positively contributed towards adhering to the Colleges wishes and being respectful of their requests in the way we organized and implemented our Healthy Activity Day. Seeing the policies beforehand were a great way for us to grasp a feel of the schools values and were able to arrange and coordinate appropriately on the day.
 * Develop an informed appreciation of healthy eating habits within students.
 * Ensure that any foods provided by the College are consistent with a healthy eating philosophy.
 * Promoting a good selection of nutritious, tasty and attractive foods consistent with the ‘Dietary Guidelines for Children and Adolescents – 1995
 * Providing a lesson relating to healthy foods and healthy eating.
 * Promoting involvement in healthy activities and healthy food to the wider community.
 * Ensuring there were many opportunities for drink breaks throughout the day.
 * provide opportunities for all children to experience success in learning skills
 * focus on the mastery of Fundamental Motor Skills
 * encourage a commitment to regular moderate physical activity through the development of positive attitudes and self worth
 * reduce the emphasis on winning and losing
 * focus on maximum participation
 * encourage self-control; and respect for others.


 * __References__**

Department of Education and Early Childhood Learning (2007) //Go For Your Life- Healthy Canteen// Kit [online]. Retrieved 19th August, 2009 from []

Victorian School Canteen Policy (2009) //Victorian Government Policy for School Canteens and other School Services// [online]. Retrieved 20th August, 2009 from []

Go For Your Life (2006) //Healthy Eating// [online]. Retrieved 20th August, 2009 from []

Department of Education and Early Childhood Learning (2007) //Safe Schools are Healthy Schools// [online]. Retrieved 20th August, 2009 from []

The school policies were obtained from Rushworth P-12 College. The policies were developed by the College Council and last ratified in Novemeber 2008.