Hub 5 is working through the "Food For Thought" Programme presented by Brittany, who is a nutritionist working with Foodstuffs.

The focus of this programme is to assist children with making healthy food choices through learning about ingredients that are in food and what are good amounts of these to maintain a healthy and balanced diet. They are learning the tricks of reading fool labels. The students were given labels of several commonly eaten foods and learned to read the labelling and record how much of each ingredient was in the product per 100g. They then followed the guidelines for each food type to decide if it was at a healthy level.

They will put this learning to the test on Wednesday by visiting the local supermarket to read food labels and decide on good food choices.

So far they have learned:

• about foods we should eat every day and those foods we should eat occasionally.
• about the nutrients found in food like vitamins, fibre, carbohydrates and proteins.
  
• that nutrients power our body.
• there should be less than 10g of fat per 100g in a product.
• there should be less than 10 g of sugar per 100g in a product.
• there should be greater than 5g of dietary fibre per 100g in a product.
• there should be less than 400 mg of salt per 100g in a product.
• of the food labels we investigated at school Wheat Bix, Natural Muesli and Rolled Oats were the healthiest breakfast cereals to eat.
• Many of the energy drinks we have way more than the 5g (1 teaspoon) of sugar we should have a day. A bottle of e2 has 19 teaspoons of sugar in it!!!

We visited the supermarket today and had the task of finding and recording and every day and occasional food in these sections of the supermarket in relation to their ingredients:

• dairy products
• snack foods
• breakfast cereals
• bread
• muesli bars

We also recorded fruit and vegetables we could see that we green, red, white, purple, brown or yellow.  We certainly learned the names of some new fruit and vegetables.

Student Led Conferences - 19-20 November

This week we have begun preparing our learning to share with whānau next week. We hope you have booked a time to come and be with your child as they share their learning with you. 

School finishes at 3pm as normal on both days of Student Led Conferences. The site for booking the conferences is: https://www.schoolinterviews.co.nz/ and the code to book your Student Led Conference is: 6czsx

Bookings will open on Friday 8th November at 3.30pm and will be live until Thursday 14 November.

Hub 5 Camp at Woodend, Thursday and Friday 5-6 December.

If you have not returned your child's Health Profile please do so on Monday 18 November.

Camp Parent helps will be receiving some forms to complete early next week.

Gala Item:  We are performing the song "A Million Dreams"  from the movie "The Greatest Showman" at the School Gala on Friday 6 December.  Students are being asked to wear something that represents who they are now or what they dream they would like to be in the future.  We will be asking students who would like to share a talent they have, to participate in our performance too eg dance parkour, singing etc.

Please note that our students return from Woodend Camp at 3:00pm and will be meeting back at school by 4:30pm for the Celebration of Learning at the Gala.

If your child has a specific reason why they are unable to attend the Gala Performance please contact your child's whanau teacher.