Few months
ago we were talking about a big problem that we have in our society, child
obesity. This Christmas we could see in our tv news that Spanish government is thinking
about how to fight this problem. One solution that they are planning to implant
next course is to increase the time dedicated to P.E weekly in schools.
For me it
could be a good solution because many children don’t have time to do sports
after school. They usually have many activities like English, music, arts,
homework, etc… so they don’t usually do exercise. Another thing that we need to
have in mind is the way children spend their free time nowadays.
Kids
usually pass a lot of time sitting in front of computer, videogames, tv, etc…
and they don’t play outside. That’s one of the reasons why obesity has
increased so much lately.
We have to
take some initiatives as a P.E teacher to deal with this problem and to educate
our child with good healthy eating habits.
I started
this program in my school three years ago. The program is called, healthy
breakfast, and now I am going to explain what a healthy breakfast means.
According to
the problems that we talked about before, I decided to do something to create
good habits in our students.
My idea
consisted on doing a schedule with some advice about what they should eat during
the school break. You know that kids always want to eat chocolates, cakes, candy
etc… and this is not good for them.
This is our
schedule:
MONDAY
|
TUESDAY
|
WEDNESDAY
|
THURSDAY
|
FRIDAY
|
FRUIT
|
DAIRY PRODUCT
|
SANDWICH
|
FRUIT
|
FREE
|
If we want
to do this program well, we need the collaboration of everyone involved,
parents, students and rest of the teachers. Every teacher has to register in
their classes which kids bring to school the right breakfast, and at the end of
the term people who have got 90% of the schedule will
get an extra point in P.E
It`s
important to explain to the families that this program is totally optional. At
the end of the year we will give a price and a diploma to those children who have
more points (two children per course).
Other ideas
that I have got from a teacher called Alberto Piñera are these:
-We can use web
pages to work on these habits as a game. The California government has a program to work
on these habits. You can visit this web and follow the instructions given on
this document.
Thanks a lot to Alberto Piñera for sharing these ducuments!!! I hope it could be useful for everyone!!!