Pick of the Crop – Health and Wellbeing Queensland

Categories:

Education, upskill Healthy Eating

Region/s:

North Queensland

Pick of the Crop is a healthy eating program bringing Queensland primary schools and farmers together to promote eating vegetables and fruit to students. Bowen and Bundaberg are two of three pilot locations in Queensland.

Program Inclusions

Pick of the Crop empowers schools to choose locally agreed actions, based on five priority components:

Learning with farmers
Teaching and learning programs
Vegetables and fruit at school
Healthy school environments
Parent connections

Pick of the Crop will work with schools to action their priorities. Supported by local project coordinators, the pilots will be implemented in primary schools across each region of Bowen and Bundaberg.

Program Benefits

Pick of the Crop supports Queensland primary schools to boost children’s intake of vegetables and fruit through locally agreed school actions.

Healthy habits adopted early in life assist bringing these habits into adulthood.

With only 6% of Queensland children aged 8 – 11 years eating the recommended amount of five vegetables every day, Pick of the Crop aims to improve these statistics and more importantly, support student learning and improve the health of Queensland children.

Up to 19,000 students in 60 schools will be reached during the pilot of Pick of the Crop in the three pilot regions.

See the media release for the Bowen launch.

See the media release for the Bundaberg launch.

Like to learn more? Visit the Pick of the Crop website