Through encouragement, knowledge, opportunities and skills this program supports students to make healthy eating choices. As well, in school access to healthy food is increased while access to unhealthy food is limited.
Healthy Eating supports learning, social, physical, and mental well being. It is a responsibility shared by schools, families and communities. Learning about the value of food promotes long term adoption of healthy eating patterns.
“What I see when students leave…. they’ve attached themselves, it’s not something they’ve learned from a book but by feeling, touch and taste and they take that with them and that is empowerment…”
Chef Pia Carroll, Culinary Arts Instructor
Edward Milne Community School (1952 – 2015)
Social Emotional Learning
= Self-regulation / Mindfulness
This program promotes mental well being and provides skills necessary to understand and manage emotions, set and achieve positive goals, feel and show empathy and compassion for others, establish and maintain positive relationships, and make responsible decisions.
Social Emotional Learning encompasses the First Peoples Principles of Learning (outlined by FNESC) which reflect a respectful and holistic approach to education. Also S.E.L. implements the Zones of Regulation (developed by Leah Kuypers, OT), the Committee for Children’s Second Step program, the Restitution philosophy based on William Glasser’s control theory and Aboriginal Restorative practices
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