Crunch&Sip

Just as we slip comfortably into extended sleep-ins and late balmy evenings, the summer school holidays are slowly coming to an end. Long languid days where routines are thrown out the window are over.  The daily ritual of school lunch boxes waiting to be filled are back, where as parents we try to come up with interesting options, only to be disheartened when the lunch boxes return home at the end of the day largely untouched. And despite our good intentions, what often ends up happening is we...

Imagine this scene… Your class has just finished a term's work on healthy eating. Despite your students having a good understanding about healthy foods and why they are important they regularly have inadequate/unhealthy/uneaten lunches.  For parents, seeing a lunchbox and its contents return home untouched can be disheartening and often results in parents choosing less healthy but more popular options. Children and teenagers eat around a third of their daily food intake at school. While school...

WA INSTITUTE OF SPORT JOINS CRUNCH&SIP Teachers - show us how much your students love to Crunch&Sip! Take a photo of your class crunching on fruit and veg and sipping on water and send it in to us. We're not looking for fancy photos or artistic flare. Just a snap of kids loving their Crunch&Sip break (make sure your photography subjects have permission for their images to be used by us. Staff and athletes at WA Institute of Sport have long been supporters of healthy eating with a Go for 2&5 He...