Healthy Schools
Case Studies
Edward Schreyer School is a rural Manitoba school with 630 students in Grades 6-12. A School Nutrition Action Committee (SNAC) has been created, consisting of middle and high school students, teachers, administrators and a community wellness coordinator. Target issues for this school involve improving lunch specials, fundraising choices, and canteen and vending machine options.
| Phone : (204) 268-2423 |
Elm Creek School, is a small rural Manitoba school for 200 students from Kindergarten to Grade 12. The healthy eating plan proposed by the Grade 10 Start Your Own Business Class involved substantially improving the school canteen and dining area.
| Phone: (204) 436-2354 |
Garden City Collegiate is a large Winnipeg high school with over 900 students in Grades 9-12. Grade 11 and 12 Foods students took action to raise nutrition awareness in the two school cafeterias and in the vending machines, as well as to influence the items to be used for fundraisers.
| Phone: (204) 339-2058 |
Ecole River Heights School is a Winnipeg junior high school with 520 students in Grades 7 and 8. The student initiatives involve setting up a breakfast club to support behaviour changes around eating breakfast, both from a better learning perspective and by addressing weight and body image concerns.
| Phone: (204) 488-7090 |
St. Norbert Immersion is a French Immersion school consisting of 230 students from Kindergarten to Grade 8. The overall goal of the Nutrition Committee at St. Norbert Immersion was to make sure that all food served in the school will be healthy. The focus of the project was the school canteen.
| Phone: (204) 261-4430 |
Ecole Viscount Alexander is a small French Immersion school with 270 students in Grades 5-9. The healthy eating plan involved activities to educate students about portion sizes, improve foods available for purchase at the school, and provide better lunch hour supervision.
| Phone: (204) 452-8945 |
Minnedosa Collegiate is a small high school with 210 students in Grades 9-12. A School Nutrition Action Committee (SNAC) which was developed for this project, has targeted several areas for healthy food choice improvement, involving removal of coffee from the canteen, a milk prize program, promotion of healthy eating through special activities offered one week per month, improving food offered in the cafeteria, and offering a breakfast program.
| Phone: (204) 867-2794 |
Hamiota Collegiate is a junior high/high school for Grades 7-12. The Hamiota Nutrition Action Committee began by creating a nutrition plan to identify nutritious foods which could be sold for profit. Drink machines were stocked with unsweetened fruit juices and water. A refrigerated vending machine was purchased by the school and was used to sell milk, yogurt, V-8 juice and nutrition snacks. Promotional and educational activities were included in the Hamiota Collegiate plan.
| Phone: (204) 764-2393 |
