WA // Healthy School News

Cancer Council WA supports schools to promote healthy lifestyle messages such as sun safety and healthy eating, and produce a biannual newsletter for school staff, parents and canteens.

Healthy School News Term 1 2022

Articles include:

• Healthy habits – SunSmart time savers
• Packed with goodness
• Common nutrition myths busted
• SunSmart persuasive writing prompt
• SunSmart hat test activity
• And so much more!

Healthy School News Term 3 2021

Articles include:

• Super snacks for supervising school sports
• How shade can positively influence your school
• Do we need to be SunSmart in winter?
• Promoting health at your school athletics carnival
• Hydration in junior sport- Podium not sodium
• Real-time UV meters available to purchase soon!

Healthy School News Term 3 2020

Articles include:

• School sun protection when the budget is tight
• SunSmart literature – activities for your classroom
• Staff health and wellbeing
• Clean, Crunch&Sip
• And more!

Healthy School News Term 1 2020

Articles include:

• How schools are turning the tide of skin cancer
• Kick starting the year with healthy habits in your classroom
• Sun protective uniforms
• Packed with Goodness – nutrition education for parents
• And more!

Healthy School News Term 3 2019

Articles include:

• Upskilling pre-service teachers in sun protection
• Geraldton Grammar getting teens SunSmart
• Recommended sun protection strategies for WA schools
• Talking to someone with cancer
• And more!

Healthy School News Term 1 2019

Articles include:

• Why baseball caps shouldn’t come to school
• Amelia’s warning – there’s nothing healthy about a tan
• Is your council blocking your shade?
• Getting savvy about UV
• A new campaign from Alcohol Think Again

Term 3 2018  – view the online e-news here.

Articles include:

• Vitamin D and kids – are they getting enough?
• The Montreal Protocol and why skin cancer rates in Australia are so high (hint – it’s not the ozone layer!)
• Cancer Council WA celebrates 60 years – how far have we come in cancer prevention
• Advocating for a healthy school environment
• The sweet truth about sugar

Term 1 2018 – view the online e-news here.

Articles include:

• 20 years of SunSmart Schools
• Toodyay District High School – part of the SunSmart Generation
• Healthy workplaces
• School staff + hats = a good choice!
• Taking a stand on junk food

Term 3 2017 – view the online e-news here.

Articles include:

• Physical activity + sun protection for healthy kids
• School sun protection checklist
• Crunch&Sip mythbusters
• How kids react to cancer

Term 1 2017 – view the online e-news here.

Articles include:

• Being a role model
• What’s new in SunSmart
• Being a health hero
• Supporting your whole school health initiatives

Term 3 2016 – view the online e-news here.

Articles include:

• Temperature and UV radiation
• Promoting health at athletics carnivals
• Fueling little athletes
• O’Connor Primary School’s SunSmart journey

Term 1 2016 – view the online e-news here.

Articles include:

• School sun protection fallacies
• Pearsall Primary School case study
• UV meters
• Where to find classroom nutrition support

Term 3 2015 – read the online e-news here.

Term 1 2015 – view the online e-news here.

Health Promoting Schools edition.

Term 3 2014 – view the online e-news here.

Articles include:

• Planning shade
• SunSmart athletics carnivals
• Crunch&Sip in the classroom

Term 1 2014 – view the online e-news here.

Articles include:

• Vitamin D – getting the balance right
• Sun protection and swimming carnivals
• Healthy lunchboxes
• Becoming a Crunch&Sip School

Term 3 2013 – view the online e-news here.

Articles include:

• How to become a SunSmart School
• Shade in schools
• Alcohol promotion in schools