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Lansdowne brought together students, families, teachers, fun math games and lots of nutritious veggie and fruit snacks for their Math and Munch event. Children send home special invitations, teachers set up fun math game stations and volunteers prepared fruit, veggies, cheese and whole grain crackers for everyone to enjoy at each station. Families loved having the opportunity to learn with their children and the nutritious snacks helped to “fuel” the learning.

“Our first Math and Munch was a huge success. Our Family Math Fun event added up to a lot of fun and a great turnout. Thank you to all families who attended, to staff for all of your hard work organizing and preparing, and to the students for stellar behaviour and math thinking! Way to go!”

Lansdowne School makes water the first choice for students at school events and promotes water consumption to students year round. Lansdowne has large water coolers and uses them to serve water as the only beverage at school events. Lansdowne also ran the Water Bottle challenge for grades 4 to 8 in 2016. If students pledged to drink only water at school for 30 days and followed through they received a School Water Bottle. Landowne school stopped selling chocolate milk, and removed the juice box from the sub lunch day fundraisers.

This year at our Open House BBQ we added a fruit table with lots of fruit choices (including Ontario Apples and Peaches) for children and families to enjoy along with their bbq hamburgers/ hot dogs and cold tap water. Families appreciated the fresh food choices. We are thankful to HKCC for providing a gift card to help us cover the costs of the fruit. I will send in a picture later.

Lansdowne School is participating in the Fresh from the Farm Fundraising program and hopes to raise money, while making nutritious food available to families in our school community.

Lansdowne School has had a breakfast program that was available for children who arrived early at school for many, many years. Last year the school changed the format of the program to ensure more students can have a nutritious snack in the morning. All children come into school at 8:30 each morning and have a chance to have a healthy snack to start their day.