Healthy eating on the agenda

Sep 8, 2022

Grape expectations: Eden Bradshaw with mum Jo Bradshaw and Arlo Bradshaw. Photo by Rechelle Zammit

Future Grahamvale Primary School Foundation students “ate the rainbow” as part of a recent healthy eating activity under the school’s Best Start initiative.

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Best Start aims to make prospective students and families comfortable with the school and community through a range of informal learning activities, such as listening to stories, borrowing books, drawing and hands-on activities.

Principal Simone Higgins said Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden Foundation healthy kids advisor Katie Thorp, who also happens to be a parent at the school, ran a session as part of the program on the benefits of eating fruit and vegetables on August 16.

Using the analogy of “eating the rainbow”, Ms Thorp got the children to identify colours, fruits and vegetables and then get creative with — and snack on — the tasty treats.

Parents also attended the session.

“It was great to see how many children could identify the fruit and vegies and (for parents) to see them eating healthy food,” Ms Higgins said.

News photographer Rechelle Zammit headed along for the session.