Penn Wood Slough pupils and parents get lessons on healthy lunchboxes
Pupils and parents from Penn Wood School, Slough will be learning about how to be more healthy thanks to a special day organised by the school in partnership with the Slough Healthy Activities Programme (SHAPE).
Slough Healthy Activities Programme logoThe SHAPE project has teamed up with the school, and Berkshire East Primary Care Trust (PCT) to promote healthier lifestyles and in particular healthier lunchboxes.
As part of the morning sessions with parents, local chef Jason Woods will be doing a cooking presentation and SHAPE health activists and the community food gardens worker from the SEEDS Trust will be introducing different herbs and vegetables and explaining how they can be used in lunchboxes.
The Slough council’s sport and health team will also be running a seated exercise session.
There will also be information stands on stopping smoking, drug and alcohol awareness and a recruitment stand for the health activists’ project.
Alongside the sessions for parents, school nurses will be running healthy lunchbox and Gimme 5! sessions with pupils to encourage them to eat five portions of fruit and vegetables each day.
Dawn Estabrook, Slough Borough Council’s SHAPE co-ordinator, said: “By offering these sessions to parents we can show them simple ways of creating healthier lifestyles for themselves and their children.
“The sessions also offer great tips and, this time, even a cookery presentation to show how easy being healthier can be.”
Councillor Derek Cryer, commissioner for health and social care, said: “The SHAPE project is dedicated to helping the residents of Slough live healthier lives – whether it is through eating more healthily or taking a bit of exercise.
“With the special health day at Penn Wood we are getting the message to parents and children simultaneously and that message is all the more relevant as it is being brought by health activists from the local community, a local chef and a local community food gardens worker.”
SHAPE is funded by the Big Lottery Fund.
Slough Borough Council.