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09 February 2010 12:15

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Breakfast Club

	The Wairoa College Breakfast Club is an initiative that builds on the Health promoting schools concept and is focussed on improving the health outcomes for youth in the Wairoa area, with the aim of reducing chronic disease in later life. This initiative will be based on: * A Breakfast Club at Wairoa College, providing nutritional breakfasts for students, particularly those from the rural area. * This group will form the hub of students who will be evaluated at the beginning and end of the programme for improved health outcomes. * Students will also be provided with nutrition and physical activity advice and education. * Activities that will be organised around events and groups where youth gather so the messages will be extended to other youth. * Activities that will be extended to increase the knowledge of teachers at the Collegeand student's whanau. * Activities that will include health promotion strategies based on the Ottawa Charter.		In accordance with the HEHA Contract the following strategies have been implemented to continue the success of the Breakfast Club: * Social and service agencies attending the Breakfast Club to promote health issues or sports clubs. * A Youth Activities Register, listing sporting and recreational groups in and around Wairoa to which the students can join. * A news letter with "Breaky Club” recipes. * Students Book Marks with silly food facts which make interesting conversation points. * A lucky draw at the end of term, to be awarded to the student and staff member who had attended the Breakfast Club. The prize at end of this term was a kete filled with health products.

The menus provided are healthy, nutritious and filling, they include:

* Weetbix
* Yoghurt parfaits
* Rolled oats hot cakes with syrup
* Toast
* Fruit
* Scrambled eggs

* Sweetcorn and kumara fritters
* Spaghetti
* Baked beans
* Chicken chow mein
* Milo

Students who attended the Breakfast Club were surveyed to determine
the numbers attending and whether they arrived by bus or walked.

The graph opposite shows the results.

Various factors may have contributed to uneven results such as
other activities students were involved in which prevented them
attending the Breakfast Club or inaccurate data collection - such as:

* Students not always filling in the registration forms
* 15.03.09 Day of School Ball
* 18.05.09 Recovery day following the Ball
* 23.05.09 Smoke Free Stage Challenge
* 15/06/09 Teachers only day
* 22.06.09 & 26.06.09 Errors in numbers counted
* 30.06.09 Extremely wet day
* 3.07.09 Last day of term

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