Description
This planning guide aims to improve children's health and learning by promoting nutrition-related knowledge, health promotion messages, and safe behaviors, while providing tools for nutrition education to help students make healthier food choices and prevent obesity. It serves as a framework for enhancing school health policies and practices, addressing self-identified needs within the school system. By aligning health and educational goals, the guide seeks to foster the cognitive, physical, social, and emotional growth of children. It focuses on creating an emotionally safe, physically fit, and healthy environment, with a special emphasis on improving the school environment and sustaining healthy practices. The guide also proposes a holistic approach to child health, integrating physical, mental, emotional, and psychological well-being, and emphasizes the need for accessible health resources and nutritious food options within schools.
