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*Gift card will be mailed after registration and theme week planner is submitted online.
Heart Healthy Schools 2024-2025
The Heart Healthy Schools program teaches kindergarten to grade 5 students about healthy habits across four different theme weeks - Explore Vegetables & Fruit, Discover Water, Joyful Movement, and Rest & Recharge. Experience Clean Air is an optional theme week, with resources and activities to support messages around a smoke/vape free lifestyle, reducing pollution and enjoying outdoor time. Schools who complete the four original theme weeks earn a Heart Healthy Schools designation.
Heart Healthy Schools is joining forces with Jump Rope for Heart again this year to increase funds earned for schools participating in both programs. Jump Rope for Heart is a fun way for students to help beat heart disease and stroke in NB while being active. Schools who participate in BOTH Jump Rope for Heart and Heart Healthy Schools earn 20% back of the funds their school raises. To learn more and to register your school go to nbjumpropeforheart.ca.
Experience Clean Air
OPTIONAL
Rest & Recharge
Joyful Movement
Discover Water
Fruits & Vegetables
Fruits &
Vegetables
Create excitement with students about different fruit and vegetables, how they're grown, where they come from, what they taste like, why they are important for health.
Discover
Water
Help students get curious about food sources of fluid, enjoying water in different ways,
importance of water for breath and
tasks of daily living.
Joyful
Movement
Engage students in physical activities in the classroom. outdoors, and encouragement for activity at home, in a way that emphasizes fun and pleasure for their health.
Rest &
Recharge
Explore activities that promote
restful sleep, mindfulness, and restoration for students' mind and bodies.
Experience
Clean Air
NEW for 2023/24 (OPTIONAL)
To enioy fresh clean air as students play learn and grow, while encouraging lifestyles that reduce
pollution and are free of smoke
and vape products.
"We really liked this program and want to do it again next year!"
- École Camille-Vautour
Heart Healthy Schools
What does a Heart Healthy Schools program look like?
Theme week activities could include:
Taste testing and rating different types of vegetables & fruits
Growing vegetables in a community garden or hydroponic classroom garden
Role playing the sequence of events to grow fruit or vegetables
Decorating the water fountains to encourage students to stop and drink
Preparing and serving fruit infused water
Brainstorming on ways we use water in our daily lives
Incorporating microbreaks during class time to stretch and do yoga poses
Writing a journal about bedtime habits to prepare for restful sleep
Broadcasting morning announcements about importance of refreshing sleep
Participating in Jump Rope for Heart
Hosting a 5 minute dance party to break up a lesson.
Choosing different actions like side stepping or leap frogging for hallway transit
Creating posters for classroom doors with pictures about favourite outdoor play activities
Collecting nature items outdoors for a scavenger hunt.
Enjoying fresh air by flying kites, blowing bubbles or using pinwheels.
An initiative of the Heart and Stroke Foundation of New Brunswick
The Heart and Stroke Foundation of New Brunswick (HSFNB) manages the Heart Healthy Schools program. The mission of HSFNB is to promote health, save lives, and enhance recovery. The Heart Healthy Schools program helps further this mission by creating opportunities for schools to engage students in fun activities while learning about habits for health now and in the future.
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Taking Part is as easy as
Here's how it works:
1. Register
Click the "register" button below and answer some questions about your school
2. Coordinate Theme Weeks
Plan 4 different theme weeks with activities through the school year
3. Become a Heart Healthy School
Complete final survey and earn Heart Healthy Schools designation.
