· Surveying of the P & C.

· 15 minute phone interviews of 50 parents.

· 100 survey mail outs to community members.

· Over 250 students for all year levels were surveyed.

· Over 80% of staff responded to an on line survey.

 

 

 

·  Senior Schooling and the Qld Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Framework;

·  Literacy (expanding beyond Reading into Writing);

·  Spreading Indigenous perspectives throughout the curriculum;

·  Gifted education;

·  Numeracy; and

·  Increasing computer aided learning.

 

 

 

 

 

 

1.  Limit the amount of children’s television, computer and electronic games usage to a maximum of two hours a day. Send children outside, suggest they walk or ride to a friend’s house or even suggest they have a friend or four over to play.

2.  Children walk or ride a bike to school each day. Recent research revealed that 60 per cent of Australian 6-13 year olds would like to walk to school but only 30 per cent actually do. Most children would get their required minimum two hours exercise a week by walking or riding their bikes to school.

3.  Keep unhealthy food out of the shopping trolley and include more fruit. This may be stating the obvious but as keepers of the family purse, parents have the main say about what food goes in and what stays out of the shopping trolley.

4.  Serve healthy meals at the table on a regular basis. Far from being a refueling stop, meal time is an opportunity for everyone to catch up and to share good, healthy, well prepared food.

5.  Parents play with their children or join them in a physical activity. The family that plays together stays fit together could well be the motto of our times.

6.  Encourage children to be involved in a least one organized physical activity each week. There is no shortage of options for children these days as there are activities and sports that cater for a diverse range of interests, abilities and body types.

7.  Parents model a healthy lifestyle. Do as I do not a I say is the idea here. It is little use parents telling their kids to go out and play as they tuck into their second wine or they slump onto the couch. Modelling is the most important tool in the armoury if we want children to develop sustained healthy eating and exercise habits.

 

 

1.  Get a minimum of an hour’s physical activity everyday?    Yes—2   No—0

2.  Spend more than two hours per day watching television, playing computer games and using the computer? Yes—0   No—2

3.  Mostly eat according to the healthy eating pyramid?   Yes—2   No—0

4.  Get sufficient sleep so that they don’t tire in the middle of the day? Yes—2    No—0

5.  Eat a good, healthy breakfast everyday? Yes—2   No—0

 

10 More than likely a healthy specimen. Keep it up.

 

1. Have a TV-free day once a week or TV-free period each day.

2. Put up the healthy eating food pyramid at home and get kids to identify the healthy foods they eat.

3. Organise for your children to walk to and from school each day establishing processes to ensure their safety

4. Join your children in a physical game or activity each day.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ø Wednesday, 27 August to Friday, 29 August—SEU Camp, Riverside Retreat. Depart 8.30 am Wednesday and return Friday 3.00 pm.

Ø Tuesday, 02 September to Wednesday, 03 September—Year 12 QCS Test in Hall.

Ø Thursday, 04 September to Friday, 05 September—Wide Bay Athletics. Various Venues.

Ø Monday, 08 September—Year 8 into 9 Subject Selection evening. More information to follow.

Ø Tuesday, 09 September to Thursday, 11 September—Year 11 and 12 exams in Hall.