CD-Rom sent out to local authorities to promote healthy eating

The Action Plan aims to improve pupils' food choices: to increase their consumption of fruit, vegetables and other essential nutrients and reduce their consumption of fat, saturated fat, sugar and salt. Appetite for Life recognises that schools provide an ideal environment to convey positive messages on healthy choices. It supports children and young people by encouraging and promoting a whole school approach to food and fitness. This new resource pack contains a series of materials to promote healthy eating and wellbeing, including reward charts for children who make healthy food choices with spaces for stickers, stars or stamps, healthy breakfast factsheets including join-the-dots actvities and colouring sheets, as well as template and sample press releases for schools to promote activities with local media. Education Minister Jane Hutt said: "This CD-Rom demonstrates our ongoing commitment to a healthy diet and lifestyle, and the activities in this pack are colourful and fun and designed with children in mind. "Evidence shows that introducing change rapidly without testing increases the risk of failure. To successfully introduce better food and drink standards, we must engage with and involve children and young people to ensure they actually consume healthier options on offer. This resource pack makes healthy food fun and interesting for pupils." The scheme was launched by the Welsh Assembly Government in November 2007.