July marks thehealthy lifestyle andenvironmentalconsciousness month
The food we eat is not only what makes ushealthy. Eating the right kind of foodtogether with a healthy lifestyle will ensureus better state of body and mind condition.Dinner tables and lunch boxes are loadedwith nutritious foods but let's take a look atour children's lifestyle.
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Are they getting enough sleep?
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Do they have outdoor games orsports?
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How long is their TV time, includingthe session for computer games?
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Do you have family bonding activities?
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Are they getting enough hugs andaffirmation from their significantelders? (parents, guardians,grandparents)
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Do they have exclusive time with you?
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How is their free time being spent?
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Do they have spiritual enrichment ornourishment? (An evening familyprayer, Sunday school, Sunday Mass)
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Do they have friends other thanclassmates or cousins?Children or even adults need to have abalanced healthy kind of life that will helpnourish their entire system and the wholehuman personality . Young children must beexposed to a positive and wholesomeenvironment and activities.Food on the table is not the only concernhere but equally important also are thethings that will nourish the emotional,spiritual, social, and mental state of being.
(first posted in the PB Vol. 2, no. 5)
This year’s Nutrition Month celebrationfocuses on the prevention of lifestylediseases, illnesses caused by poorhealthy lifestyle like:
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Fondness of junkfood amongkids
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Fastfood mania
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Streetfood craze
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Couch potato among children
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Smoking/ second handsmoking
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In-active lifestyle
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Shorter sleeping time
In line with the celebration, HCEClaunched a month-long activity forthe pupils to have the enduringlearning on the importance of proper nutrition to help themachieve a healthy life and preventthemselves to get sick. Variedactivities were prepared by theFusion Club in coordination with theFlora and Fauna Club in connectionwith the Ecology Month Celebration.Pupils will get into a hands-onexpereince to learn more aboutnutritious food and ecologicalawareness.
(Pleasse refer to other page for the details of the activities)
HCECian gets a perfectscore in SBA
He is Francis Jenner T. Bernales, the classFirst Honors of the Batch 2009, who got aperfect score in Math SB for AY 2008-2009. The Standadard Based Assessement Testof the Asian Psychological Services andAssessment Corp is a measuring tool tocompare the performance of a certainpupil/ school to the internationaleducational standard. The result willshow how a student or the schoolperforms in terms of academiccompetencies and contents.It is the HCEC’s pride and honor to haveone from among our pupils to set arecord of getting a perfect score in thesaid test. With a percentile score of 110+
Parents’ Bulletin
AY 2008-2009 VOL 4 No. 04 JULY 10, 2009
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