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You can put health on the school timetable!
The School Challenge can be used by schoolteachers, after-school teachers and parents. The activities are easy to implement. Just choose an activity, read the step-by-step instructions and print out the material – then you’re ready to put health on the school timetable.
If you do not already work with children on a daily basis, you can enrol as a guest teacher at a local school, maybe even at your own child’s school.
How to become a guest teacher
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Contact a local school and ask whether they are interested in the School Challenge.
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Agree with the class teacher on the activities that you would like to carry out on the day.
Plan the activity: make sure that you have all the necessary materials (print out the School Challenge materials, buy apparatus, or borrow balls, skittles etc from the school). -
Consider inviting parents and siblings along on the day.
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Possibly contact the local press on the day.
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Be prepared! Refresh your understanding of diabetes.
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Important: tell the children why it is important to stay active and eat healthily – background health information on a child’s level.
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Remember: send feedback from the day to School Challenge.
Have fun – we look forward to hearing how it went!
