The goal of the program is to enable students to make healthy choices about nutrition and physical activity on a daily basis. Working with Ottawa Public Health, we can address healthy active living issues with students and provide skills to develop healthy food and activity behaviors.

Some of the objectives of the Healthy Schools Initiative are:

• Increased awareness and understanding of the link between healthy eating, physical activity and disease prevention and the link to improved academic performance

• Increased leadership in students, teachers, school staff and parents and community partners to promote a healthy school initiative

• Increased skills in students, teachers, school staff and parents and community partners to promote a healthy school initiative

In supporting these objectives J.H. Putman has the following health goals and objectives:

• To create a community through intramurals that incorporates the concepts of physical activity, respecting others, friendship, and school spirit.

• To have healthy eating activities such as rate your lunch day and healthy snack day to encourage proper nutrition and healthy choices.

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