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047 Pauline Fernandes (reduced sound quality) |
click to read > 1. Wendy: Can you tell me about a particular issue in education at the moment? 2. Pauline: We're being asked to do. to get the children involved in more of physical health, healthy eating, emotional wellbeing and to raise. the government has very much been trying to raise the profile of it in schools. 3. One of the ways I do it in school is I help run the school's council, so in the school council we have representatives from all the classes and we will talk about issues like healthy schools and ask the children for their ideas. 4. One of the issues that concerns children very much, this comes through to us in the school council, is the idea of sitting next to their friends in the dining room. When children line up for lunch, they normally have hot dinners in one queue and packed lunches in another, and the children would really like to be able to sit next to their best friends, regardless of what type of lunch they're going to eat. 5. Wendy: Yeah. And with the healthy eating promotion, how does that work in schools? 6. Pauline: The healthy eating promotion is children have often brought bottles in school and we. this is something the school council and the teachers would flag up, children are allowed to bring the water bottles onto their table to drink water whenever they want. One of the ways school. the quality of food in school will be improved I think will be when school kitchens are cooking more of their food on site. 7. Wendy: More fresh food. 8. Pauline: Fresh food, more fresh food, lets say something like pasta could be just boiled, you know, quite quickly. So that's very definitely the way forward for schools and. 9. Wendy: I know the children were having free fruit as well. 10. Pauline: Yes they're still. 11. Wendy: Are they all still? 12. Pauline: Yes the free fruit is still in school and will be for the foreseeable future which, which when the government want children to have five healthy pieces of fruit a day, ours are given at least two pieces a day. So we feel that's a big move, that and water, and we have a healthy fruit. healthy snacks on sale at lunch time. sorry at morning break and afternoon break where the children can buy something like fruity bites. 13. Wendy: Yeah. 14. Pauline: But nothing in the confectionary bracket. 15. Wendy: Yeah and what about the physical education, how often do they do PE? 16. Pauline: Physical education again it's a government drive that they're hoping to raise that to two hours a week in school. At the moment, it's one hour a week. It's approximately one hour a week, so we hope we can have perhaps lunch times and morning breaks more structured that there would be more structured PE on offer in those break times. 17. Wendy: Yes. 18. Pauline: Because it's not easily fitted into the overburdened timetable as it is. 19. Wendy: Can they do after school clubs with physical education? 20. Pauline: After school clubs, there are some running in our school, football, netball, yes that would be. that would be on offer and I suppose more of it if teachers are willing to do it after school. |
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