Healthy Schools Day Project Archive (to April 2017)

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On April 11, all students who bring a healthy snack (an organic food item or fresh food item from Canada’s Food Guide) will receive a special sticker/pin entitled “Healthy Choices” for their Participation Nation Certificate/Pennant.

Organic foods are grown without chemical fertilizers or pesticides.  Eating organic foods helps one avoid pesticide residue consumption, but it also helps Mother Earth, workers and communities by reducing the use of chemical sprays.

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Holy Trinity School began the process of replacing toxic whiteboard markers with nontoxic, reusable AusPen whiteboard markers.  We have now been added to the AusPen list of All-Star schools due to the fact that we have 100% buy in from all departments and divisions across the school.  We are a JK-12 co-educational independent school located in Richmond Hill, On.

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The Environmental Health Association of Quebec is hosting several events this Spring that will all reflect the goals of Healthy Schools Day in Canada.

March 25 – Conference on how to maintain a healthy home

May 12, Environmental Health: Seeds for Change

May 28 – Toxic Trespass: Effects on Human Health

ASEQ-EHAQ has sent out a special edition of Eco-Journal featuring Healthy Schools Day, and has posted Healthy Schools Day information and poster on their website, linked from the newsletter.

ASEQ-EHAQ has also provided us with a Healthy Schools Day poster translated into French.

For more information, on ASEQ-EHAQ and its activities visit www.aseq-ehaq.ca  or contact at 514.683.5701.

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The Joint Occupational Health and Safety Committee of our French school in Nova Scotia, will be inviting teachers to open the windows of their classrooms for this Journée des écoles saines du Canada. Students will be asked to wear their biggest and most colourful sweaters to school that day. We believe that this common-sense approach is a way to bring awareness to the importance of the quality of indoor air, providing a healthier environment for our students and staff.

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Bedford South School is celebrating Healthy Schools Day with an awareness campaign.  The following text was published in the school newsletter to parents on Wednesday April 14, 2010, and students will announce the special day in the morning announcements of April 26, 2010.
“Monday, April 26, is Healthy Schools Day in Canada – Journée des écoles saines du Canada. It is an important day because school buildings can affect the health and learning ability of students.   It is an extra special day in Nova Scotia because this province has led the way in Canada.  For nearly twenty years, we have been improving our schools’ health – making our schools the best they can  be.  That means everyone in this building has been better off without even knowing it. Our school board chooses less toxic cleaning materials so we don’t breathe in toxic chemicals. Also, Scent-Smart programs are in place across Nova Scotia in hospitals, offices and most schools.

Healthy Schools Day organizers are pleased to say that other parts of North America are catching up! Now, the important part is to keep our schools healthy. So let’s celebrate Healthy Schools Day at Bedford South with schools right across Canada.

“Leave your scents at home on Monday and every day for a better, healthier school.”

For more information on healthy schools and Scent-Smart programs visit www.casle.ca (Canadians for a Safe Learning Environment) “

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Digby Elementary School’s teaching staff and School Advisory Committee took part in two talks by CASLE on Healthy School Environments, April 15 and 16, 2010. The event included the school’s first running of the Tools for Schools IAQ Action Kit. The Kit is designed to keep healthy schools healthy by preventing potential challenges to good indoor air quality, and also to help identify sources of current air quality problems.

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To mark Healthy Schools Day in Canada, ASEQ-EHAQ will host a conference called Toxic Food: Need for Change. The conference, on Thursday, April 22 at 6PM, will include  speakers Dr. Shiv Chopra, Dr. Jennifer Armstrong  and Denise Phaneuf who will discuss food and environmental health. 

Common foods bear toxic chemicals such as hormones, antibiotics, and pesticides. Also genetically modified foods will be a topic.

Both adult health and children’s health and futures in relation to the foods they consume will be a focus throughout the conference.

Talks will be available in English or French.

Chaired by Dr. Pierre Auger, Sante Public

Location:

HEC Amphitheatre

3000, Chemin de la Cote-Sainte-Catherine

Universite-de-Montreal

Sponsored by:

Association pour la santé environmentale du Quebec (ASEQ)

Environmental Health Association of Quebec (EHAQ)

And Association Vegetarienne du Montreal

For more information and French and English posters go to:

http://www.aeha-quebec.ca/

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Hon. Geoff Regan (Halifax West, Lib.):

Mr. Speaker, today is Healthy Schools Day in Canada. Students, teachers, parents, and others in our school communities, are focused today on improving the indoor environmental quality in school buildings. Healthy Schools Day was established by Canadians for a Safe Learning Environment in Halifax West, and partner organizations across Canada.

This group has been very successful in helping to improve the condition of school buildings and raising awareness of products and practices used in schools. This means that students and staff have a safer and healthier place to learn and work.

I ask the House to join me in congratulating CASLE on its work. I encourage all members to join me in promoting Healthy Schools Day.

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