Alvin has two big blows dealt to him on 280807...

Dear group,

I am still recovering from the first blow from Northlight that they can only do events in November, when another blow came to me from my brother's primary school...They are organising a full health fair 2007 at Farrer Park Primary School. Just when I was about to call the principal.

Nevertheless, I typed out the info as shown on the school's information sheet (My brother gave me this with a smile...)

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Notification 075/P/07

28 August 2007

Dear Parents / Guardian

Launch of Health Fair 2007 during Healthy Lifestyle Week

Our school will be implementing a “Healthy Lifestyle Week” from 10th September to 13th September 2007. As pat of the activities, we will conduct a 2 Day Health Fair from Monday 10th Sept to Tuesday 11 Sept 2007. The theme of the Health Fair is “Healthy Students are Better learners”.
Key learning points:
Prevention of Smoking
Healthy Nutrition
Importance of Physical Activity
Importance of Mental Health
Myopia Prevention
Importance of Oral Health

The Healthy Lifestyle Week is a collaborative effort between the school and Health Promotion Board. Some of the activities lined up for the day are:
Mass Workout (P1-P6)
Sandwich Making Competition (P5)
Water RAP Competition (P3 and P4)
Viewing of exhibition panels (P1 – P6)

Parents are cordially invited to take part in the launch of the health fair.

HE Coordinator
Farrer Park Primary School

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I am undaunted....I still can make out some points from this:

1) The theme is a good one...We can modify it for our pitch.

2) We need not just identify one health issue to touch upon. The school shows they are addressing many at the same time, and these key learning points seem to be the same as those stated by HPB. Prehaps the school is using this wholesale without doing proper research.

3) Some of our events can be targeted at all primary levels. We may do that eventually too. This is for ALL to benefit.

4) We may consider inviting parents and guardians to our events, as they too can be an avenue to SUSTAIN our health messages. School teachers can only sustain during school hours...But parents face their children at home, hence more feasible.

5) Some of us (well, me at least) can attend the school's health fair launch on Monday, Sept 10 to have a good idea of what is going on on the ground, in terms of conduct and activities. We can also ask the teachers / coordinators there for feedback ad advice on such activities...Who's with me?!

My apologies for not doing my best....

Alvinz