FFCA

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FFCA SWE Campus An Active Healthy Ever Active
School

• Presenter Sonia Sheehan

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Great Ever Active Promising Practices in Action

• Foundation for the Future Charter
  Academy-Southwest CampusAn Ever Active School!
• A Healthy Active School Community!

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My background

• Opened two FFCA campuses
• Created physical education programs, intramurals,
  ordered all equipment, trained other teachers
• Attended the first Calgary Ever Active Energizer
  day and became an Ever Active school
• Involved with HPEC as the Calgary HPEC Regional
  Representative
• Within the FFCA school system collaborate
  regularly with 4 elementary schools, 2 middles
  schools and a high school

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Our Ever Active VisionHow we started it allWith
the Ever Active program 4EsEDUCATION FIRST

• A quality PE program
• PE specialists
• Diverse program with a wide range of activities
  to meet curriculum needs (includes swimming and
  inline skating)
• SPARK program
• Full grade 1 to 4 participation in an Intramural
  program (running club, soccer league, floor
  hockey club, dance club, dodgeball quidditch
  league, Olympic challenges)
• QDPE application and award banners

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Adding to the Ever Active 4EsEveryone and
Environment

• Active Living Months (2 per year)
• November Active Living Month - Active Living
  Running Shoe
• May Active Living Month Active Living Pictures
• These activities focused on how our students and
  families (EVERYONE) were active outside of our
  school environment and how much activity they
  engaged in
• All Active Living Sheets are displayed in the
  hallway outside the gymnasium (a very prominent
  place) to showcase an active healthy school
  ENVIRONMENT
• Painted the EVER ACTIVE mural on our gymnasium
  wall
• Added a staff fitness program to our school

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ACTIVE LIVING RUNNING SHOE The next Ever
Active goal of the year is to get our school
community more active in our November Active
Living month. During this month we would like
our students, teachers, and parents to focus on
being active, eating healthy, and building
wellness awareness. Throughout the month we will
be discussing healthy active lifestyles in
physical education classes and sending home the
Active Living Running Shoe. The Active Living
Running Shoe will allow us to see how active our
school community really is. The Active Living
Running Shoe consists of 2 shoes divided into 15
sections. Every time a student completes 15
minutes of physical activity outside of school,
one section of the shoe can be colored in. If a
family member completes the physical activity
with the student a second section of the shoe can
be colored in. Once both shoes are colored in,
the Active Living Running Shoe can be brought
back to the school for a new shoe. I challenge
our school community to fill in as many Active
Living Running Shoes as possible. All completed
running shoes will be displayed in the hallway
outside the gymnasium.
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Active Living Pictures

• May was Active Living Picture month
• Students brought in pictures of themselves and/or
  their family engaging in active living
• All pictures were displayed prominently in the
  school

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Ever Active Mural

• Painted the physical education icons and Ever
  Active icon when the school first opened

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Staff Fitness

• After school weight training and aerobics
• Running club
• Urban challenge

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A Good Place to be

• Happy with our progress as an Ever Active School
• Quality daily physical education
• Strong intramurals
• Family and home connections through our Active
  Living Months
• Proud environment with our mural
• Staff involvement through staff fitness
• WHAT NEXT?????

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Added National Nutrition Month

• Highlighted National Nutrition Month March
• Created a nutrition web quest for all students,
  teachers, and families to learn about healthy
  eating and Canadas Food Guide
• Student create an example of a healthy lunch and
  snack on a plate

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The month of March is National Nutrition Month.
Throughout this month our school community is
encourage to examine Canadas Food Guide, learn
about the four food groups, eat more fruits and
vegetables, and explore the Dietitians of Canada
Nutrition Month website. Task Write down and
draw, or cut out pictures from magazines or
flyers, that make up a healthy balanced lunch and
snack that you could bring to school. Make sure
the lunch includes foods from all four food
groups and the snack is a healthy choice. Use
the back of this page for your picture. Place
your lunch items on the plate and your snack at
the bottom of the page. If you have any questions
or comments regarding National Nutrition Month or
the task, please contact Mrs. Sheehan. Valuable
Websites www.dietitians.ca (click on Eat Well,
Live Well) www.nms.on.ca/Elementary/canada.htm
(Canadas Food Guide to Healthy
Eating) www.dole5aday.com (Dole Superkids)
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Added Fitness Fridays

• Focus on Fitness for all grade 1 to 4 classes on
  Fridays
• Fitness Circuit
• Fitness Bingo
• Fitness Dice
• Aerobic Games
• Holiday Fitness
• Playground Fitness
• Integrate HR monitors and partner feedback

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Holiday Fitness Bingo
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1 Jump up and down 20 times and say Ho Ho Ho 3 laps around the gym running like a reindeer With your group, pretend to build a big snowman Skip 15 times with a hula hoop 30 Second Sit down and Rest on a Bench Play a game of partner tag rock/paper/ Scissors to decide who is it
2 5 Running Laps sing jingle bells as you run 15 Jumping Jacks 20 bench step ups Float once around the gym like a snowflake High five 10 different people Sing your favorite holiday song
3 Create a hula hoop sleigh and move around the gym 3 times as a group 3 running laps saying I love snow as you run Say Happy Holidays to 5 different people Put 3 hula hoops on the ground and jump in and out of them 20 times Balance on one foot in a wide shape like a Christmas Tree Hop around the gym once like a bunny rabbit
4 25 Jumping Jacks Favorite Lower Body Stretch Skip 20 times with a hula hoop 1 Running Lap Hop 15 times on each foot Touch 3 walls in the gym
5 15 squats 20 Bench Step Ups 30 Second Wall Sit Say Schools over today 5 times 10 Star Jumps Sit down and rest for 30sec
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Family Activity Evenings

• Students, teachers, parents, grandparents, and
  siblings being active together
• Mission Impossible
• Dance
• Inline Skating

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Southwest Mission Impossible Parent-Student
Evening

• As an ever active school we are committed to
  providing many opportunities for our students to
  lead active lifestyles. We will be offering a
  parent-student mission impossible evening to
  promote active lifestyles and get the whole
  family involved. We are inviting parents to come
  with their child to experience the often talked
  about MISSION IMPOSSIBLE. Parents are welcome
  to watch their child become the ultimate spy and
  make it through our mission impossible course.
  Parents are also welcome to attempt the mission
  impossible course.
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Family Recess Games and Skipping Evening

•  As an ever active school we are committed to
  providing many opportunities for our students to
  lead active lifestyles. We will be offering a
  family recess games and skipping activity evening
  to promote active lifestyles and get the whole
  family involved. We are inviting parents to come
  with their child to experience some of the
  activities that students have learned and are in
  the process of learning during physical education
  class. Parents are encouraged to come and
  participate with their child. Some activities
  will be familiar to students and some activities
  will be new to students depending on their grade
  level.
• Some activities that will be available to try
  are skipping, wall ball, 4 square, tetherball,
  playground challenges, hopscotch, hula hoop
  challenges, skipping, monkey in the middle,
  marbles, fitness challenges

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Feedback from Family Evenings

• Positive
• Parents like the opportunity to have quality time
  with their child in an active setting
• Socialize with other families
• Would like to see it more often
• Think it is great
• Awesome, wonderful, Can we stay longer

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Ever Active Leaders

• Open to grade 4 students
• Application process with references required
• Orientation process
• Lead recess games and skipping with the goal of
  trying to get kids active at recess
• Lead intramurals
• Lead special events Terry Fox Run

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Dump Your Junk Campaign

• Ever Active Leaders who attended the Calgary HASS
  brought this idea back to the school
• Students asked permission from all teachers by
  attending a staff meeting to discuss details of
  the event
• Students shared the idea at a parent council
  meeting
• Created posters to promote event
• Created a power point to promote event
• Presented to all K-4 classrooms over lunch time
  by sharing the power point
• School wide support (parents, teachers, and
  students) was amazing!

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Spirit Medallion Reward System

• An alternative to candy or chocolate for prizes
  and rewards at a minimal cost
• www.fitnessfinders.com
• Asked Parent Council for funding
• Medallions for special events birthdays,
  gotchas, character houses, spell-a-thon, Terry
  Fox Run, art club, choir, active living months,
  dance club, nutrition month, heart month,
  sports/field day, principal wall of fame,
  skipping club

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Character Kilometre Club

• Started fall 2009
• Opportunity for all students K-4 to participate
  in voluntary physical activity before school, at
  morning recess, lunch recess or after school
• ½ kilometre loop around the school field
• Ultimate goal by the end of the year is to run a
  marathon 84 laps of the field
• Students receive reward medallions at the 24, 48,
  72 and 84 laps
• Students self record with help from their
  homeroom teacher

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Whats next?

• Continue to grow our Ever Active program by
  providing
• Innovative PE equipment and units (recently
  received the Canadian Sport for Life Grant to
  purchase new equipment)
• Location of The Canadian Exergaming Research
  Centre
• Adding new family evenings

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Modeling the Ever Active Vision

• Lets get ACTIVE and be Forever Healthy!

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Earn A Spirit Medallion from FFCA SWE Campus

• Participate in the following
• Building a nutrition plate for National Nutrition
  Month
• Active Living Running Shoe
• Apply to become an Ever Active Leader
• Family Dance Activity Evening
• Character Kilometre Club

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Conclusion

• FFCA SWE is proud to be an Ever Active School
• Contact Sonia Sheehan at sonia.sheehan_at_ffca-calgar
  y.com for more information