MWEW Annual Planner

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CriterionWhich requirements are you already doing?
Tap Into Water
  • Drinking taps or water fountains are easily accessible to children at all times
  • Students may bring to class water bottles filled with water only
  • Sweet drinks are not permitted during class time
  • Children may use their ‘water only’ water bottles during PE and sport
  • Children are reminded to drink water throughout the day
  • These strategies apply to all students at all year levels
Plant Fruit & Veg in your Lunchbox
  • The school promotes the inclusion of fruit and vegetables in lunchboxes every day
  • The school provides an opportunity for students to enjoy fruit and vegetables every day
  • The school encourages healthy eating behaviours in a positive, relaxed and social environment
  • These strategies apply to all students at all year levels
Limit Sometimes Foods
  • All staff are encouraged not to use ‘sometimes’ foods as rewards in classroom

  • The school has undertaken strategies to encourage the school community to support our limiting of ‘sometimes’ foods

  • The school limits ‘sometimes’ food on a whole of school basis

  • As applicable: The school canteen or lunch service is fully accredited with or has had their lunch order or canteen menu assessed in the last year with School Food Matters.

    (Full accreditation means menu assessment + food safety + classroom links + canteen policy)

Move Play & Go
  • All students at all year levels receive two hours of timetabled physical activity per week
  • Free and creative play is part of the daily curriculum and spread throughout the day in the Early Years
Turn Off Switch to Play
  • A system is in place to provide regular access to play equipment at breaks and screens are limited
  • Screen-based activities are predominantly used for educational purposes
  • The school takes measures to break up long periods of sitting
  • Ensuring this system is accessible to all students at all year levels
Stride & Ride
  • All students at all year levels have access to or are encouraged to participate in an age-appropriate activity to promote safe walking or riding as a form of transport, at least once each term.
Health Promoting School
  • A health and wellbeing curriculum is delivered to all children in levels K – 6, that includes explicit teaching about healthy eating and the benefits of physical activity
  • Each of the Award criteria is specifically addressed in school policy, either through a Move Well Eat Well policy or within existing policies (eg. nutrition, canteen, physical activity, physical education, student wellbeing, traffic safety policies)
  • All the policy documents are approved by the school association/council
  • New families to the school are provided with information about the healthy eating and physical activity policies
  • Families are provided with regular information, ideas and strategies to promote and support healthy eating and physical activity, for example through displays, brochures or newsletter inserts
  • The school has a family-friendly approach in the birth to 4 years programs and has a welcoming attitude to breastfeeding
  • Staff are encouraged to model healthy eating and physical activity practises across the whole school environment

Actions to support MWEW Criteria

CriterionTerm 1Term 2Term 3Term 4
Tap  Into Water    
Plant Fruit & Veg in your Lunchbox    
Limit Sometimes Foods    
Move Play & Go    
Turn Off Switch to Play    
Stride & Ride    
Health Promoting School