St. Paul Schools Exercise Your Right to Feel Better
3/17/2010 12:00 PM
"Health is simply a choice. Are you making it?" Patrick Bryan, principal of Jackson Magnet, St. Paul, asked his students at a rally on the Capitol steps. On Tuesday, April 27, the 500 students of Jackson Preparatory Magnet walked from their school to the Capitol to kick off the city-wide Exercise Your Right to Feel Better Minnesota campaign. In addition to ongoing activities in Saint Paul Public Schools surrounding this city-wide wellness campaign, there will be a 10-day relay walk connecting all Saint Paul Public Schools, and a culminating 5K Run/Walk on May 21. Throughout the campaign messages of health, wellness, and active lifestyles will be brought to over 50,000 students, family members and staff of Saint Paul Public Schools community. Employee wellness is being encouraged through an optional six-week online 5K training plan associated with the 5K Run/Walk. Proceeds from this event will go to support quality health and physical education in Saint Paul Public Schools. For photos and videos of the rally,
Throughout the campaign messages of health, wellness, and
active lifestyles will be brought to over 50,000 students, family members and
staff of Saint Paul Public Schools community. Employee wellness is being
encouraged through an optional six-week on-line 5K training plan associated
with the 5K Run/Walk. Participation in this program is a qualifying activity
for staff to maintain current health insurance deductibles. Registration for the 5K is open to anyone,
with special encouragement for children and families to participate together.
Individual schools and work sites within Saint Paul Public
Schools will create a variety of kick-off events that meet the needs of
individual programs. The main focus of the district kick-off involved the
nearly 500 students of Jackson Preparatory Magnet (Patrick Bryan, principal) walking from their school to
the Capitol on Tuesday morning, April 27.
During the time between kick-off on April 27 and culmination
on May 21, individual school sites will again have to opportunity to engage in
the campaign in ways that meet their needs. A toolkit containing signage, a
DVD, sample lesson plans, newsletter templates, book marks, and related fact
sheets will be available to each school to use as they plan their individual
site activities. (Visit Health in MESPA Resources for details on the DVD and toolkit.)
Beginning on Monday May 10, there will be a ten-day relay
walk involving a representative group of students and adults walking between
every public school site in Saint Paul as well as several private schools (approximately 63
school sites). This relay will take place during school hours. Schools are
encouraged to engage in all-school wellness activities surrounding their leg of
the relay. In the past these activities have included assemblies, principal-led dancing, and student-led movement experiences. The baton that
is passed from site to site throughout the ten days of the relay will finish
its journey at the school closest to the starting location of the 5K that will
be held in the evening of May 21.
Exercise_Your_Right_Invitation_2.pdf
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Jackson Preparatory Magnet Rally
April 27, 2010: Jackson Preparatory Magnet (St. Paul) students walk to the Capitol for a rally to kick off the city-wide Exercise Your Right to Feel Better Minnesota campaign in St. Paul.
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