Promoting a Healthy Environment for Children
E1- Collate evidence which describes the role of the practitioner in working towards a health lifestyle and environment for children
The role of a practitioner is vast. To be able to promote children a healthy life style and environment there are number of aspects that need to be met such as; * Routines * Circle time * Posters around the school (for example posters that promote healthy eating and exercise) * Environment * Indoor and outdoor activities
Because children are growing it is important they have regular snack times as they need calories and nutrients for them to be healthy. Good nutrition is key to your children's development and health, whether their toddler or a teenager. Providing children with healthy snacks can provide them with nutrition they need. Additionally, it is important for children to eat at least every four hours; having scheduled snack times can help them feel energized and fit. In my setting for nursery, children get to have a snack time during their break which would regularly be milk/water and a piece of fruit or vegetable. The fruit/vegetable would change everyday for example if one day they get apples the other day they would eat carrots which are healthy for the children.
Other ways of promoting children to have healthy life style would be by having posters around the school in different languages so if a child cannot read English however can read polish they would also be able to read and understand the poster, these posters can be around the school for example, in front of the school you can have posters that promote healthy eating such as eat 5 fruits a day and keep fit or posters about doing regular exercise and eating vegetables. In my setting we promote healthy eating by doing circle times or reading books to the children for example when we have circle time we talk about why it is important to eat fruit and vegetable and what would happen if we eat unhealthy food. We also talk about the good things
The role of a practitioner is vast. To be able to promote children a healthy life style and environment there are number of aspects that need to be met such as; * Routines * Circle time * Posters around the school (for example posters that promote healthy eating and exercise) * Environment * Indoor and outdoor activities
Because children are growing it is important they have regular snack times as they need calories and nutrients for them to be healthy. Good nutrition is key to your children's development and health, whether their toddler or a teenager. Providing children with healthy snacks can provide them with nutrition they need. Additionally, it is important for children to eat at least every four hours; having scheduled snack times can help them feel energized and fit. In my setting for nursery, children get to have a snack time during their break which would regularly be milk/water and a piece of fruit or vegetable. The fruit/vegetable would change everyday for example if one day they get apples the other day they would eat carrots which are healthy for the children.
Other ways of promoting children to have healthy life style would be by having posters around the school in different languages so if a child cannot read English however can read polish they would also be able to read and understand the poster, these posters can be around the school for example, in front of the school you can have posters that promote healthy eating such as eat 5 fruits a day and keep fit or posters about doing regular exercise and eating vegetables. In my setting we promote healthy eating by doing circle times or reading books to the children for example when we have circle time we talk about why it is important to eat fruit and vegetable and what would happen if we eat unhealthy food. We also talk about the good things