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Healthy crop of ideas for winning school

2 June 2011

Healthy crop of ideas for winning school

Queensland's newly crowned healthiest school has no shortage of ideas on how to spend the $250,000 that came with the title.

Loganlea State High School was one six Queensland schools to share $500,000 in the Healthy Queensland Awards schools category for 2010.

Not surprisingly, much of Loganlea's plans for the future centre around the programs which brought it the title.

High on the agenda is expanding programs like the breakfast club to get students off to a positive start to the day, and food bank for those who don't have lunch to bring to school.

Principal Belinda Leavers said new and fledgling initiatives also stood to benefit.

Expanded vegetable, herb and bush tucker healthy eating gardens to supply the Hospitality Trade Training Centre due next year are just part of the menu.

'One of the important initiatives that we really want to grow, that we've started in a small way this year, is the lunchtime healthy eating club. The students come in in the lunch hour and have a lesson on preparing a healthy meal,' she said.

'Then of course they get to sit down and eat the meal that they've prepared.

'We have a small gym, and we have an ever-growing group of students who are doing fitness programs, Certificate III in Fitness and the Cert II in Sport and Recreation. What we're hoping to do is expand into outdoor gym equipment much like you see in local council parks nowadays.

'That way can expand out of our gym, so we can use the indoor gym as well as having an outdoor circuit in close proximity to that.'

Queensland's Healthiest School was not the only feather in the Department of Education and Training's cap to emerge from the 2010 awards, announced on May 19.

The department's North Queensland regional office picked up $50,000 as a finalist in the Healthiest Workplace category.

The other five Healthiest School finalists, also winners of $50,000 each, were Gordonvale State School, Benowa State Primary School, Cannon Hill State School P&C Association, Inglewood State School and Labrador State School.

Applications for the new round of Healthy Queensland Awards close on August 31 2011, with winners announced in November 2011

For more information, entry forms, and a full list of the 2010 winners and finalists, visit the Healthy Queensland Awards website.