FFCA SWE Campus An Active Healthy Ever Active

FFCA – SWE Campus – An Active Healthy Ever Active School Presenter: Sonia Sheehan

Great Ever Active Promising Practices in Action… Foundation for the Future Charter Academy. Southwest Campus…An Ever Active School! A Healthy Active School Community!

My background… Opened two FFCA campuses Created physical education programs, intramurals, ordered all equipment, trained other teachers Attended the first Calgary Ever Active Energizer day and became an Ever Active school Involved with HPEC as the Calgary HPEC Regional Representative Within the FFCA school system collaborate regularly with 4 elementary schools, 2 middles schools and a high school

Our Ever Active Vision…How we started it all…With the Ever Active program 4 Es…EDUCATION FIRST A quality PE program PE specialists Diverse program with a wide range of activities to meet curriculum needs (includes swimming and inline skating) SPARK program Full grade 1 to 4 participation in an Intramural program (running club, soccer league, floor hockey club, dance club, dodgeball quidditch league, Olympic challenges) QDPE application and award banners

Adding to the Ever Active 4 Es Everyone and Environment Active Living Months (2 per year) November Active Living Month - Active Living Running Shoe May Active Living Month – Active Living Pictures These activities focused on how our students and families (EVERYONE) were active outside of our school environment and how much activity they engaged in All Active Living Sheets are displayed in the hallway outside the gymnasium (a very prominent place) to showcase an active healthy school ENVIRONMENT Painted the EVER ACTIVE mural on our gymnasium wall Added a staff fitness program to our school

ACTIVE LIVING RUNNING SHOE The next “Ever Active” goal of the year is to get our school community more active in our November Active Living month. During this month we would like our students, teachers, and parents to focus on being active, eating healthy, and building wellness awareness. Throughout the month we will be discussing healthy active lifestyles in physical education classes and sending home the Active Living Running Shoe. The Active Living Running Shoe will allow us to see how active our school community really is. The Active Living Running Shoe consists of 2 shoes divided into 15 sections. Every time a student completes 15 minutes of physical activity outside of school, one section of the shoe can be colored in. If a family member completes the physical activity with the student a second section of the shoe can be colored in. Once both shoes are colored in, the Active Living Running Shoe can be brought back to the school for a new shoe. I challenge our school community to fill in as many Active Living Running Shoes as possible. All completed running shoes will be displayed in the hallway outside the gymnasium.

Active Living Pictures May was Active Living Picture month Students brought in pictures of themselves and/or their family engaging in active living All pictures were displayed prominently in the school

Ever Active Mural Painted the physical education icons and Ever Active icon when the school first opened

Staff Fitness After school weight training and aerobics Running club Urban challenge

A Good Place to be… Happy with our progress as an Ever Active School Quality daily physical education Strong intramurals Family and home connections through our Active Living Months Proud environment with our mural Staff involvement through staff fitness WHAT NEXT? ? ?

Added National Nutrition Month Highlighted National Nutrition Month – March Created a nutrition web quest for all students, teachers, and families to learn about healthy eating and Canada’s Food Guide Student create an example of a healthy lunch and snack on a plate

The month of March is National Nutrition Month. Throughout this month our school community is encourage to: examine Canada’s Food Guide, learn about the four food groups, eat more fruits and vegetables, and explore the Dietitians of Canada Nutrition Month website. Task: Write down and draw, or cut out pictures from magazines or flyers, that make up a healthy balanced lunch and snack that you could bring to school. Make sure the lunch includes foods from all four food groups and the snack is a healthy choice. Use the back of this page for your picture. Place your lunch items on the plate and your snack at the bottom of the page. If you have any questions or comments regarding National Nutrition Month or the task, please contact Mrs. Sheehan. Valuable Websites: www. dietitians. ca (click on Eat Well, Live Well) www. nms. on. ca/Elementary/canada. htm (Canada’s Food Guide to Healthy Eating) www. dole 5 aday. com (Dole Superkids)

Added Fitness Fridays… Focus on Fitness for all grade 1 to 4 classes on Fridays Fitness Circuit Fitness Bingo Fitness Dice Aerobic Games Holiday Fitness Playground Fitness Integrate HR monitors and partner feedback

Holiday Fitness Bingo 1 2 3 4 1 Jump up and down 20 times and say Ho Ho Ho 3 laps around the gym running like a reindee r 2 5 Running 15 20 Laps – sing Jumpin bench jingle bells g Jacks step ups as you run Float once High five 10 around the different gym like a people snowflake Sing your favorite holiday song 3 Create a hula hoop sleigh and move around the gym 3 times as a group Put 3 hula hoops on the ground and jump in and out of them 20 times Balance on one foot in a wide shape like a Christmas Tree Hop around the gym once like a bunny rabbit 4 25 Jumping Favorit Skip 20 Jacks e times Lower with a Body hula Stretc hoop h 15 squats 20 30 Bench Second Step Wall Sit Ups 1 Running Lap Hop 15 times on each foot Touch 3 walls in the gym 5 3 running laps saying “I love snow” as you run 5 With Skip 15 30 Second Sit your times with down and Rest group, a hula hoop on a Bench pretend to build a big snowman Say “Happy Holidays ” to 5 differen t people Say 10 Star Jumps “School’s over today” 5 times 6 Play a game of partner tag – rock/paper/ Scissors to decide who is it Sit down and rest for 30 sec

Family Activity Evenings Students, teachers, parents, grandparents, and siblings being active together Mission Impossible Dance Inline Skating

Southwest Mission Impossible Parent. Student Evening As an ever active school we are committed to providing many opportunities for our students to lead active lifestyles. We will be offering a parent-student mission impossible evening to promote active lifestyles and get the whole family involved. We are inviting parents to come with their child to experience the “often talked about” MISSION IMPOSSIBLE. Parents are welcome to watch their child become the ultimate spy and make it through our mission impossible course. Parents are also welcome to attempt the mission impossible course.

Family Recess Games and Skipping Evening As an ever active school we are committed to providing many opportunities for our students to lead active lifestyles. We will be offering a family recess games and skipping activity evening to promote active lifestyles and get the whole family involved. We are inviting parents to come with their child to experience some of the activities that students have learned and are in the process of learning during physical education class. Parents are encouraged to come and participate with their child. Some activities will be familiar to students and some activities will be new to students depending on their grade level. Some activities that will be available to try are: skipping, wall ball, 4 square, tetherball, playground challenges, hopscotch, hula hoop challenges, skipping, monkey in the middle, marbles, fitness challenges

Feedback from Family Evenings Positive Parents like the opportunity to have quality time with their child in an active setting Socialize with other families Would like to see it more often Think it is great Awesome, wonderful, “Can we stay longer”

Ever Active Leaders Open to grade 4 students Application process with references required Orientation process Lead recess games and skipping with the goal of trying to get kids active at recess Lead intramurals Lead special events – Terry Fox Run

Dump Your Junk Campaign Ever Active Leaders who attended the Calgary HASS brought this idea back to the school Students asked permission from all teachers by attending a staff meeting to discuss details of the event Students shared the idea at a parent council meeting Created posters to promote event Created a power point to promote event Presented to all K-4 classrooms over lunch time by sharing the power point School wide support (parents, teachers, and students) was amazing!

Spirit Medallion Reward System An alternative to candy or chocolate for prizes and rewards at a minimal cost www. fitnessfinders. com Asked Parent Council for funding Medallions for special events: birthdays, gotchas, character houses, spell-a-thon, Terry Fox Run, art club, choir, active living months, dance club, nutrition month, heart month, sports/field day, principal wall of fame, skipping club

Character Kilometre Club Started fall 2009 Opportunity for all students K-4 to participate in voluntary physical activity before school, at morning recess, lunch recess or after school ½ kilometre loop around the school field Ultimate goal by the end of the year is to run a marathon = 84 laps of the field Students receive reward medallions at the 24, 48, 72 and 84 laps Students self record with help from their homeroom teacher

What’s next? Continue to grow our Ever Active program by providing: Innovative PE equipment and units (recently received the Canadian Sport for Life Grant to purchase new equipment) Location of The Canadian Exergaming Research Centre Adding new family evenings

Modeling the Ever Active Vision Let’s get ACTIVE and be Forever Healthy!

Earn A Spirit Medallion from FFCA – SWE Campus Participate in the following: Building a nutrition plate for National Nutrition Month Active Living Running Shoe Apply to become an Ever Active Leader Family Dance Activity Evening Character Kilometre Club

Conclusion FFCA – SWE is proud to be an Ever Active School Contact Sonia Sheehan at sonia. sheehan@ffcacalgary. com for more information