Health – Beaver County Educational Trust

Oct22020 by webadminNo Comments

Covid-19: Health and Wellness

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As part of the BCET response to Covid-19 the board approved and funded the first of its kind meeting of Beaver County school district health care professionals. 46 School nurses, physician assistants and other administrators attended the virtual meeting in August. The goal was to help bring uniformity to procedures and policies needing to be created for each school district. During the meeting, local specialists in epidemiology and pediatric doctors provided advice and guidance on creating a comprehensive health and safety plan for the return to school.

Jan82020 by webadminNo Comments

Viking Wellness WORX

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Our project is focused on providing Opportunities/Exposure/Engagement of our teenagers here at Hopewell High School. We strongly feel that our students need of exposure to innovative methods to address overall health, wellness and nutrition. Implementing these initiatives will counter the effects of screen time and sedentary lifestyles of many of our teenagers. Our goal is to provide opportunities that will inspire and empower our teens to develop a healthy lifestyle that will jettison them into their future. According to Stephen Ritz, “it is easier to raise healthy children then to fix broken men”. Needs: We need to have our wellness facility open throughout all class periods encouraging student engagement during free time and study halls; We need to have our garden area open and accessible to all students, especially those…

Sep52017 by webadminNo Comments

Wellness Wagon Rolls on to Good Health

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Hopewell school nurses, Tamara Kross and Leah Meehan, received a Great Ideas Mini-Grant from the BCET for a "Wellness Wagon". The Wellness Wagon contained a variety of engaging hands-on activities that promoted health and wellness to the 793 Hopewell Area School District students in grades kindergarten through grade 4 during the months of February, March, April, and May 2017. The health and wellness topics included were; dental care, nutrition, physical activity, introduction to parts of the human body, illness prevention, and wellness promotion. The Wellness Wagon contained a variety of hands-on interactive activities, a dental model that taught brushing and flossing, a model for hand-washing and germs, food models and nutrition games that taught healthy eating, and models of the parts and functions of the human body. This grant provided…