2.7 Healthy School Environment

2.1 Healthy School Environment

*Clean Air Survey Patrol - Oct. 16, 2014

Our Bridges After-School Green Team Environmental Education Enrichment class (gr. 3-5) conducted a clean air survey of our school. Our findings were told to the building supervisor of what they learn and found from the survey.

Students taking down data and surveying clean air problems inside GES.

Clean Air Survey findings.

* Fitness Kickoff for Marathon Kids - Sept. 19, 2014

Our students and staff listened to the guest marathon speaker, Dave Berdan (winner of the Baltimore City Marathon many times) to kickoff Marathon Kids. Marathon Kids is a program which encourages young people to run by supplying mileage charts, lesson ideas, a website with lots of resources, nutrition resources, and incentives to running clubs/schools that join. Their goal is to complete 1 - 4 Marathons in a school year. Our students use this fitness program to stay active with walking / running during recess warmup. They do recess warm up for 10 min. everyday.

Dave Berdan - Guest Marathon Speaker talking to students and staff about healthy habits and running.

Kickoff for Marathon Kids.m4v

A marathon runner guest speaker movie clip talking to our students ( 3r -5th grade) talking and answering questions about fitness and eating healthy to stay fit.

Staff stretching with students and staff running / walking the field in the back of GES.

* Hear Maryland Crunch Day - March 25, 2015

Our students (460 est in pre k - 5th grade )participated in Hear Maryland Crunch Day. It is a day to promote a healthy school by eating an apple across the state of Maryland all at the same time.

Maryland Crunch.m4v

Maryland Crunch short movie clip of Mrs. Lambert's first grade class taking a bite of apple.

*Making Hand Washing Signs- March 2015

Our Green Team tech students (10 students in gr. 3-5) made hand washing signs to go with the Mr. Clean Hand Washing Club. These signs were put up in all the bathroom and sinks throughout the school.

The students making hand washing signs.

The Mr. Clean Hand Washing Club students are putting up hand washing signs on bathroom doors and inside bathrooms. The health room was included for a hand washing sign.

* Mr. Clean Hand Washing Club - March- May 2015

A student in 5th grade had a wonderful idea to have a hand washing club in school. A video was put together to show students of how to wash their hands.

A 5th grade student who had the idea of telling the importance of washing hands on GES News Morning Announcements.

Mr. Clean Club wash hands announcement.mov

Mr. Clean Club Announcement

How to Wash Your Hands.mov

How to wash your hands video demo by the 5th grade student and a staff member.

* Students Using Environmental Cleaner- Spring 2016

Our students and staff use the environmental cleaner Q128 to wash their desks after eating breakfast or anytime that it is needed.

3rd grade students using the cleaner.

* ROAR Celebration Aerobics - March 2016

For our spring ROAR celebration, our 2nd graders (25) chose aerobics for their incentive of having great ROAR behavior and academics in school. They had a 20 min. aerobic class with Mrs. Maynard (2nd grade teacher) on the field next to the basketball court.

* Crazy Math Exercise Games - Fall 2016

Our Bridges Academic 3rd grade students (12 students) had Crazy Math every Thursday during the Fall session. They did 6 exercises for this game using a stop watch to time there reps.

Timing exercise and taking data.

crab crawls

shoe toss

*Recess Warmup - June 2017

All our students (450 est.) walk or run for 10 minutes around the field before recess. They have been doing this since 2014 with Marathon Kids. Staff is also welcome to walk and run with the students.

Spring 2017 -1st grade students walking with a staff member.

Spring 2017- 1st grade students walking and socializing during recess warmup.

Fall 2017 - 4th grade students (below) walking with staff members for Recess Warm- up.

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