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Children   Education   Healthy Eating   
Region/s:

North Queensland   Wide Bay Burnett   Logan   

Pick of the Crop is a whole-school healthy eating program to increase opportunities for Queensland primary school children to learn about and consume vegetables and fruit.

Program Inclusions

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

  1. Farmer and food connections
  2. Teaching and learning programs
  3. Vegetables and fruit at school
  4. Healthy school environments
  5. 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, Bundaberg and Logan.

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 serves of 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.

See the media release for the Logan launch.

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

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Health and Wellbeing Queensland acknowledges the Traditional Owners and custodians of the lands from across Queensland. We pay our respects to the Elders past and present for they are holders of the memories, traditions, the culture and aspirations of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples across Queensland.


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