We are proud to be a
Heath Promoting School
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We are proud to be a Heath Promoting School |
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| On this page you will find information about smoking, food, first aid ......and even head lice - which aren't very nice! | ||
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Click
the chicken
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chickens.
Next year we hope to be able to supply the school kitchen with eggs. We have chickens and bantam hens - delicious for making cakes and omelettes. |
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| The latest initiative
at Ysgol San Sior was to take over the running of the school kitchen. It
used to be run by Catering Services but now the School Governors are
responsible for running the kitchen. Mrs Basset is the Kitchen Manager. Every morning we put a blackboard outside the school and another, smaller one outside the kitchen. Each day one of the pupils has the responsibility of writing the day's menu on it. The person writing on the board has to have very neat joined up handwriting. Each week a different child writes the menu. Everybody, parents, pupils and anyone passing the school can see what is on the school menu for the day. During the summer Probuild came to the school and knocked a hole in the wall and also knocked the cupbaod wall down. We have placed a salad bar where the cupboard used to be and we are served jacket potatoes through the hole in the wall. Very tasty. Mrs Bassett and Mrs Roberts have even painted the kitchen orange and yellow... but Mrs Bassett had to take her Robbie Williams posters down! The food is good at the school and there is even a box outside the kitchen where we can make suggestions on what we would like to eat and how we think things can be improved. Soon the hall will be extended and this will give us all more room in the hall. Dinner times should then be perfect.
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Awaiting photographs Click here for the school menu.. |
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We have improved the school environment with a SUPERGROUNDS grant. Click
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Smoke-free school |
Mr Jones made a smoking machine to show us what happens if you smoke using a plastic bottle, a piece of cotton wool, a plastic tube, some blue tak and a cigarette. Mr Jones lit the cigarette and squeezed the bottle and the smoke went into the bottle and passed the cotton wool. The bottle represented lungs and the pipe represented our wind pipe. Eventually the bottle was full of smoke. Mr Jones took the cotton wool out and it had turned yellow and it smelt disgusting. |  |
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Below are a list of
advantages of smoking: THERE ARE NONE!!
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Smoke Bugs
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December Mark Griffiths came to our school. Mark is a member of smoke bugs .He taught us about how bad
smoking is for our health. Mark brought a friend with him called William. William was a
puppet and was very funny. He said that he liked Mr Jones hair cut and he fancied all the
girls. Mark then pulled out a note from his pocket which read William had been caught
around the back of the School smoking. After that Mark took two members of the audience , Zach and Harrison .Harrison sat on a chair and Zach sat on his knee. Zach held on to the seat and Harrison controlled the arms. They both wore wigs and tried to make a cake with the following ingredients:
Mark then got 4 pupils and dressed them up.3 of them were pirate friends and they and they smoked and were poor and they had spent all there money on cigarettes. And the other one didn't and was very rich. And then gave 10 reasons why we shouldn't smoke:
And at the end he gave out prizes if you answered questions correctly. If you smoke 5 cigarettes a day you waste 300 pounds a year. However it is not unusual for somebody to smoke -15~20 cigarettes a day. That's between £68,400 and £91,200 in a life time. That is the cost of a house however this is based on a life span of 76.But if you smoke you may not even live until that age. If somebody smoked
81% of lung cancer deaths are caused by smoking. Smokers lose on average more than one day of life every week. Did you know in 1997 97 billion cigarettes were sold in the UK. Tobaco in product duty earned the UK Government £7,000 million in1990. Every year in the UK, about 111,000 people die before their time of smoking caused illness. 1 in every 6 deaths is caused by smoking. And 1 out of every 10 children smokes when they are older. If your family Smokes 5 cigarettes a day you have inhaled 1 cigarette. |
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Headlice aren't very nice! |
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Headlice are sometimes found in schools. We have
prepared a leaflet for parents and answered the most frequently asked questions. DESCRIPTION Head lice are small brown insects with six legs. They are often not much bigger than a pin head and rarely bigger than a sesame seed. Each of the six legs of a head louse ends in a claw. These are used to grasp the hair with such strength that head lice are difficult to dislodge. When moving through hair, they are like trapeze artists, able to run quickly both forwards and backwards and transfer quickly from one hair to another. This makes them quite difficult to find since they run away from searching fingers. Lice are very clumsy off the body since their claws are not made for walking. Nits are not the same as head lice. The head lice lay their eggs near the scalp for the warmth.When they hatch their eggs they turn white and they are called nits. They do not cause itching or scratching that is just the allergic reaction of having head lice close to your scalp. MYTHS People used to believe that if you head-butted someone with headlice, you would immediately catch headlice.They also believed that if your head touched a chair you would immediately catch lice. Headlice can not jump, swim or fly. People used to think that if you had long hair you could catch head lice more easily but this isn't true so cutting hair short is pointless! DIAGNOSIS & TREATMENT Don't panic if you see any head lice just wet the person's hair,then dry it with a towel so it's just damp. Then comb the hair through with an ordinary comb, then check the teeth of the comb for head lice. If there are any head lice go to a local clinic, ask for some head lice shampoo and read the instructions on the box, they should tell you what to do. Regular brushing and checking hair for headlice should take place regularly not just when you hear somebody in school has headlice. |
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| Check my hair if you dare! Its not talc on my scalp.Those little bits are called nits! Lice! They're not very nice.They're a pain and the itching drives you insane. Parents scream and apply cream. Just get the lotion on prescription and comb your hair. It's so unfair! Just go home and buy a comb and break their legs and then they can't lay eggs. But don't blame school 'cause that's not cool. |  |
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Should I clean my house or car? Not unless it's dirty! The chances of a live head louse or egg becoming reunited with a person would seem remote exceptionally. So what should be cleaned? Washing and drying pillowcases, sheets, nightclothes, towels and stuffed animals may possibly eliminate lice and eggs that might otherwise reinfest a family member. Combs, brushes, hats and other hair accessories in contact with an infested person should be washed in hot water each day to dislodge any lice and nits. Do head lice cause harm? Head lice rarely (if ever) cause direct harm, and they are not known to transmit infectious agents from person-to-person. Thus, they should not be considered as a medical or a public health problem. These lice may occasionally be burdensome because of annoyance; their presence may cause itching and loss of sleep. The greatest harm associated with head lice results from the well-intentioned but misguided use of caustic or toxic substances to eliminate the lice. A few lice on the head should not cause alarm. Grooming can be an effective method to remove lice. Because of unfounded fears, some parents have suggested that children refrain from sharing protective batting or biking helmets. The miniscule risk of acquiring lice from such devices pales in comparison to the hazards averted by helmets. Should everyone in the home be treated? Only those with live lice or viable eggs should be treated. Each person (adults as well as children) within the home should be inspected to determine if live lice are present. All those found to be infested should be treated simultaneously. |
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Food Dudes |
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| Food Dudes is a project set up by Bangor Food Research Unit set up to help younger children to eat more fruit and vegetables. If they eat all of their fruit and vegetables they get a prize. We have had 9 letters, 6 Food Dudes videos, the Food Dudes videos are about a group of children that eat fruit and vegetables and they get special powers to destroy the junk punks, these are a group of punks that eat unhealthy food and they try to destroy the life force of fruit and vegetables. These are the 16 prizes you can get: A mini telescope, an optical key-ring, a beaker, a straw, a pencil case, pencil sharpener, an eraser, a notepad, a mini maze puzzle, a pen, a fruit-bug, a window sticker, a ruler, a pencil, a box of crayons and a mini highlighter pen. This is a really good idea the Food Dude corporation have now started a home-pack which is a chart that you write down what fruit and what vegetables you have had at home. If you fill in all in you win a super prize we can’t tell you what it is yet because it will spoil the surprise you will just have to fill it in and find out your-self. There is strong evidence that eating more fruit and vegetables can reduce the risk of heart disease and cancer, so we think that Food Dudes is a really good idea. | ||
