News - Good breakfast wins arty award
Students at Clarksdale High School have a new growing
project including a hoop house just completed in March! They got a jump
on planting their vegetables and expect a nice crop of beans well before
traditional
gardens have warm enough weather to produce a crop. The Wildcat Garden
also includes about a dozen raised beds adjacent to the school.
Students
will sell produce through the summer at the Clarksdale Farmer’s market
to
help make locally grown produce more readily available to residents and
to help
make their growing project sustainable.
Ag Students and their instructor, Fred Holland,
refurbished
the greenhouse on their campus at Byhalia High School this Spring.
50 lettuce bowls planted by the students will be
ready for
sale at the Alliance
Health Care System Health Fair at the multi-purpose
building in Holly Springs
on May 13th. Contact Ann
Endicott if you would like to pre-order a lettuce bowl…. aendicott@mcschools.us
SCHOOLS RECOGNIZED AS HEALTH CHAMPIONS!
Several County Health Councils have recognized schools in
their communities for making their campus healthier!
A huge celebration at Charleston
Middle School marked the presentation of their Health Champion award for
October along with a Wii Fit System from the Tallahatchie Community Health
Council.
Football team members lead students in a
workout
Even students in the stands got moving!
Rep. Tommy Reynolds presents award to CMS Principal
Sammy Armstrong
Click here for more about the big celebration!
Friars Point
Elementary was recognized by the Coahoma Community Health Council at their
Project Fit Kick Off Celebration October 20th.
Experts with weighted hula hoops
Keynote speaker for the celebration, Lela
Keys, tries the hoops
Students love the healthyfruit snacks they
get twice a day
Click here for details of the Friar’s Point event.
Kirkpatrick
Elementary in Clarksdale was selected as the Coahoma Council’s HEALTH
CHAMPION for November.
Kirkpatrick receives Health
Champion Award
Click here for a full report.
The Desoto County
Councils has recognized several schools where raised gardens sponsored by
the Kiwanis Club and the Council are helping students learn important lessons
about growing fresh, locally grown vegetables .
Click here for their success story.
Support Your School Health Council!
School Health Councils are required to meet three times during the school
year and to make at least one
presentation to the School Board.
School
Health Councils can include
representatives from the following:
1.
1. Parents who are not employed
by the school district
2. 2.
The director of school food
services
3.
3.
Public schoolteachers
4.
4.
Public school
administrators
5.
5.
District students
6.
6.
Health care
professionals
7.
7.
The business community
8.
8.
Law enforcement
9.
9.
Senior citizens
1
10. Faith Community
1
11.
Nonprofit health
organizations
1
