Health Promoting School

Health Comments from 6th Class

“We have lots of great sports everyday.  We eat fruit on Fruity Friday” - Marie

“Every Friday the students bring fruits for lunch we call it ‘Fruity Friday’” - Clodagh

“You should eat fruit and veg so you will have lots of energy for walking to school” - Alison

“I think it is so good that our school is influencing children to be healthy because when they grow up they will teach their children to be healthy.  And you can be healthy by having fun like sports” - Grace

“The teacher encourages us to eat fruit and veg everyday” - Lucy

“Eat your fruit and eat your veg because you will grow up to be big and strong” - Katie

“We have ‘Fruity Friday’ so everyone will bring a fruit every Friday” - Bianca

“We play loads of sports and we have ‘Fruity Friday’.  On ‘Fruity Friday’ we bring one piece of fruit”  -  Lorna 

“I think it’s great because we encouraged children to eat healthy with ‘Food Dudes’” - Shannon

“Eating healthy food is good for you because it gives you loads of energy. We have ‘Fruity Friday’ every week” - Amy

“We did ‘Food Dudes’ and it really showed that we were a health promoting school” - Rachel

Fruit  - Stock Photos                          Fruit & Vegetables  - Stock Photos

“Our school is very good because we have ‘Fruity Friday’ and we are not allowed to bring in sweets and we have loads of sport” - Carmel Kate

“Our school is a very healthy school!  We do sports, ‘Fruity Friday’ and loads more. We have a Green Schools Promotion. Ours school is the healthiest school in Castleisland” - Christine

“Walking to school makes you fitter, and saves money on petrol.Eating fruit makes you healthier and it helps stop you being exhausted” - Michelle

“I loved the ‘Food Dudes’ because it was a lot of fun seeing all the people with lots of weird faces and I liked when they were trying to eat it all to get the prize and they didn’t even like half the fruit or veg.  It was the best” - Siobhán

 “Our school is proud to be a health promoting school. We carried out programmes to help the environment. Here are some programmes that helped the environment and that the pupils really enjoyed. We recycled, shredded paper, cut back on electricity. ‘Food Dudes’ programme involved pupils eating a piece of fruit and veg everyday. We do tons of fun sports” - Diana

“Keep your lifestyle healthy! Eat healthy and nutrious foods in school and home but very small amounts of sugary foods. Our school has ‘Fruity Friday’ and plenty of exercise every week.  Like they say an apple a day keeps the doctor away!” - Clodagh

Sliced Bread  - Stock Photos                          Oranges - Stock Photos

 “We have lots of great sports everyday.  We eat fruit on ‘Fruity Friday’”

  1. “We have ‘Fruity Friday’”

  2. “We have a good diet”

  3. “We do lots of sports”

  4. “We recycle each week”

  5. “Our school is clean”

  6. “We have a Green School Team in our school”                     Mairéad