A comprehensive document entitled “A Healthy Eating Lifestyle Plan” (HELP) has been compiled by the Education Division to provide schools with the direction, support and guidance to establish the best practice for a whole school approach towards Healthy Eating.

San Anton School is pursuing a number of healthy initiatives in 2008 commencing with the introduction of the “Healthy Breakfast at School” and “HealthyLunchbox” campaigns amongst its Junior Sector Students. These initiatives will be kick started on the the 3 rd March 2008. and will culminate in the Implementation of a Whole School Healthy Eating Policy.

This will be also extended to Senior Sector at a later date.

On the 26 th February 2008 Ms Lorraine Dimech Magrin, a parent and registered Nutritionist and Nutrition Educator from the Home Economics Seminar Centre, was invited to School to hold two informative talks to Junior Sector parents on Healthy Eating for Children as an introduction to the policy.

Both sessions enjoyed a very good turnout in parent participation and one could gauge the interest in the subject by the numerous questions asked at the end of each session as parents queried their childrens` eating habits.

At the end of each session, all parents present were given copies of Healthy Recipes from the HELP document to try out at home, copies of articles from the Food Commission Guide and some healthy cereal samples courtesy of our sponsor Paolo Bonnici Ltd.

Parents were also able to browse through and purchase books on nutrition, cooking and healthy lunchboxes, which were supplied by Agenda Bookshops for those who wanted to read further on the subject or were simply looking for inspiration.

Our sincere thanks go to Ms Lorraine Dimech Magrin from the Home Economics Seminar Centre for delivering such interesting and informative presentations which were greatly appreciated by all, and to all the parents who participated in the events .