High School Incursions Melbourne
Healthy Eating
Nutrition High School Incursions – healthy bodies & healthy minds
Healthy eating & regular exercise are critically important during adolescent and teenage years. It enables strong bone development, improved brain function and overall improvements in health well being. Daley Nutrition is here to enhance your students’ knowledge of nutrition with our high school incursions. We educate classes or whole year groups on the principles of nutrition for healthy young bodies.
Each high school incursion is run by one of our skilled Dietitian educators, who are trained to be engaging, motivating and inspiring for young audiences. The key topics we discuss are: Nutrition foundations, Brain Food and Gut Health, and Sports Nutrition for teens.
Daley Nutrition has been running curriculum-based school incursions about healthy eating for 6 years across Melbourne & Victoria. We receive 5 star reviews from teachers and pupils who take part in our programs. Each pupil will receive Australian dietary guideline leaflets, case study enquiry worksheets, and healthy eating goals to work on.
Our nutrition high school incursions are supported by a sustainable banana company called Pacific Coast eco-bananas that supply red waxed to all students that attend our seminars.
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HIGH SCHOOL INCURSIONS – THE TOPICS
NUTRITION FOUNDATIONS FOR TEENS
Our ‘nutrition foundation for teens’ incursion is designed to offer year groups the correct information on food groups, portion sizes, minerals, vitamins and water. We use interactive presentations and case study inquiries to educate and empower students to modify their own dietary patterns.
- Protein, fat, carbohydrates for healthy bodies.
- Key minerals to aid in bone growth and reproductive health.
- Vitamins that aid skin, hair and vital organ health.
- Junk and processed food awareness.
- Sugary drinks education and prevention topics.
- Curriculum focused to cover health and physical education topics.
- Includes a take home leaflet for parents to reinforce messages at home.
BRAIN FOOD & GUT HEALTH
Children’s brains have a LARGE growth spurt when they are young. The last part of the brain to mature is the part that influences emotions, impulses, aggression and instinctive behaviour. Nutrition plays a critical role in how this system progresses. Sugar, junk food fats, excess caffeine and high salt diets can have a negative impact on this system if overconsumed. This high incursion is designed to empower and up skill high school children to improve their own brain health and well-being.
- Junk food awareness topics.
- How food makes us feel.
- How food helps our muscles and bones.
- Brain boost food and exercise benefit.
- Case study investigation worksheet.
- Curriculum focused to cover health and physical education topics.
- Includes take home leaflet & activity sheet for parents to reinforce messages.
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SPORTS NUTRITION FOR TEENS
Nutrition and exercise work hand in hand. Luke Daley Nutritionist & Personal Trainer runs this specific workshop for students. It includes the foundation knowledge of sports nutrition, including protein, fat, carbohydrates requires for sport and exercise. We focus on an AFL football player diets and learn how they improve their performance with certain nutrients, but also show how balanced their diets are.
- Sustainable for Physical Education classes.
- Macronutrient and micronutrient discussions.
- How food influences our body systems.
- Nutrients and different exercises i.e. strength vs cardiovascular.
- Nutrients from injury prevention and aid recovery.
- Curriculum focused to cover health and physical education topics.
- Includes take home info for parents to reinforce messages at home.
The KEY FACTS that motivate us
In Australia 2.5% of of young people aged 5-14 years ate 2 fruit & 5 vegetables every day. Worrying they are eating more junk food than ever before, with 33% of their energy intake coming from ‘discretionary choices’, which increases to 41% for 14-18 year olds (AIHW 2019).
Our high school incursions and workshops aim to prevent this from happening from an early age. Our evaluation data shows promising results in younger persons eating behavior change when followed up after our education classes.
QUOTES FROM TEACHERS
“The students really enjoyed the nutrition incursion, talking about what an AFL football eats on a daily basis was inspiring and eye-opening for my classes”.
– Year 8 teacher – High Vale Secondary College
“The high school incursions were well organisation by Daley Nutrition. The students absorbed a lot of information about nutrients and portion sizes. They also were shocked by the 5 year old McDonalds you showed them!!”.
– Year 10 teacher. Kilbreda College Mentone
“The 4 week cooking course was a success with the students. The students turned up enthusiastic every week ready to learn a new recipe. We will be booking Daley Nutrition again next year!”.
– Year 10 teacher – Kambrya College, Melbourne.
“Luke spoke with our international students about transitioning to an Australia diet from a Chinese one. He broke the language barrier but using relevant visuals and food models that were easy to understand”.
– Year 10 teacher – Wesley College, Melbourne.
JAMIE OLIVER QUOTE
“We’ve got to start teaching
our kids about food in schools.
PERIOD!”
Jamie Oliver – TED talk 2006 click here to view
