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Jumpstart is a great program designed for the benefit of our students but it can't function with out the help of our volunteers, sponsors and donors. Find out what you can do as a volunteer. Can you donate some food to Jumpstart? Could you (as a food retailer/wholsaler) sponsor Jumpstart?
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- Parents and Guardians
- Students
Parents and Guardians Are Important to Jumpstart!
Eat a healthy breakfast everyday—your children are watching. By establishing healthy habits early in life, children can dramatically reduce their health risks and increase their chances for longer, more productive lives. Research has shown what parents have known all along—children who eat breakfast do better in school. Help your child make healthy choices for life—today!
You Can Support the Jumpstart Student Nutrition Program
Here’s How:
- Serve as a role model by eating a balanced diet that includes a healthy breakfast.
- Determine if your child’s school has a breakfast program and have your children participate.
- Find out what schools are doing to promote school breakfast and healthy eating.
- Volunteer with your school breakfast, lunch or snack program.
- Speak to school administrators and school boards about the importance of school breakfast.
- Help school staff plan activities where students can sample healthy breakfast foods.
- Involve children in selecting and preparing breakfast foods.
- Reinforce the messages about nutrition and physical activity that your children learn in school by planning family activities that include physical activity and healthy food choices.
Students Are Important to Jumpstart!
To do your best in school and to look and feel your best, you should make healthy eating choices at home and at school. Start your day off with school breakfast and invite friends to join you! You can have a voice in your school; get involved to make a difference!
You Can Support the Jumpstart Student Nutrition Program
Here’s How:
- Set personal goals for healthy eating habits.
- Make healthy breakfast choices in the school cafeteria by choosing more often those items with lower fat and little or no added sugar.
- Serve on a Nutrition Advisory Council or school health council and urge them to request healthy food choices in school for breakfast.
- Advocate for nutrition education and physical activity options in your school; write letters (including a letter to the editor or newsletter article), make phone calls and give presentations about the importance of a healthy school nutrition environment.
- Use nutrition labels to select low fat breakfast choices.
- Ask your parents to get involved.
- Encourage friends to participate in the school breakfast program.
- Serve as a role model for younger students.
- Take elective courses in health, nutrition, and cooking.
- Help plan school and family menus.
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Jump Start Nibblets
“Students learn better when they are well-nourished – that is part of our school philosophy. It is our job as a community school to try to remove barriers that affect a child’s learning abilities. Providing a daily snack program to all of our students removes one of the obstacles they may face during the school day, and enables them to reach their full potential. Before the snack program began, it was only the fortunate ones who had a healthy extra in their lunch to snack on. Now everyone is on an equal basis. After students have had a snack they are settled down and ready to work, ready to listen, their tummies are full and they are ready to pay attention.” Canwood Community School, Saskatchewan |
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