Riverlands
Riverlands School held a week-long party to welcome the Spring Challenge to Marlborough.
The Spring Challenge is about celebrating all that is fresh and green and great about spring across the top of the South.
And Riverlands kicked it all off with a five-day programme that included gardening, a wheelie derby, singing and even fence weaving.
Principal Dave Parsons said Riverlands was taking up the Spring Challenge because it tied in with the good work already happening at the school.
“The Spring Challenge is about healthy eating, trying different foods, kick-starting spring planting, and playing fun games,” Mr Parsons said.
“We’ve organised a week of green activities to launch the challenge because it’s fun and it supports the work our health committee is doing and it reinforces the messages we’re teaching in class.
“We learn about what you need for good health and what we can do to help ourselves live better lives. We’ve got strong community support with the healthy initiatives we’ve done at the school in the past (encouraging healthy foods, healthy lunches, reducing packing, recycling, composting and the school veggie garden).
“And the Spring Challenge has a goal of tapping into the families, so it’s taking very important lessons home with the students.”
The Spring Challenge is a public education campaign designed by the Nelson Marlborough District Health Board’s Nutrition and Physical Activity programme (NPA) to support local families in their struggle to get kids eating more vegetables and doing more exercise.
