‘Temptation has been removed’: Colonel Gray axes cocktail from school
In an bid to assistance enthuse students to follow a healthier diet, Colonel Gray High School in Charlottetown has private all cocktail and other sugary drinks from a vending machines.
‘It’s all about what we get used to, it’s what we want.’
– Sharla Goodwin
Two brands of soothing drinks, as good as vitamin water, were available to students — until this week.
Principal Dominique Lecours pronounced a plan to mislay a drinks henceforth came about after relatives voiced concerns about a accessibility of a beverages.
Principal Dominique Lecours says one partial of ensuring a contentment of students is creation certain they have healthier options. (Tom Steepe/CBC)
“Part of a charge as a school, as an preparation facility, is to teach students in terms of carrying a healthy lifestyle,” Lecours said.
“We’re endangered about a contentment of students, and partial of that is creation certain we have good, healthier food offering to students.”
‘Reduce their ambience for those drinks’
Dispensers have been re-stocked with fruit juice, divert and H2O in place of carbonated beverages and vitamin water.
Four H2O fountains have been commissioned in opposite locations in a school, including one in a cafeteria, that let students refill their reusable bottles.
Colonel Gray principal Dominique Lecours hopes a beginning will enthuse some-more students to opt for healthier drinks, like milk, if given a choice. (Tom Steepe/CBC)
The fountains have proven to be really renouned with students and staff so far, pronounced Lecours, with some-more than 12,000 bottles of water already filled.
“They’re really gratified that they can pierce their possess bottle and just fill their possess bottle to splash water, that is a really healthy option,” pronounced Lecours.
“We have one in a cafeteria, one in a wellness room and dual on one side of a propagandize and it’s a idea subsequent year to get dual or 3 some-more installed.”
Practice what we preach
School and health officials hope expelling students’ access to pop will revoke their ambience for those drinks in general.
“It’s all about what we get used to, it’s what we want,” said Sharla Goodwin, a healthy eating module officer with a P.E.I. government.
Four H2O fountains commissioned in opposite locations during a propagandize have proven to be really renouned with students and staff, Dominique Lecours says. (Tom Steepe/CBC)
“At a high school, they can still go off drift and go and buy what they want, though to me, in a school, we should be indeed practicing what we’re recommending.”
Goodwin is also optimistic the initiatives at Colonel Gray will enthuse some-more students, when given a choice, will opt for healthier drinks during school.
“[They’re] environment a good instance for students and now we can see them as a champion school, too, that will hopefully enthuse other schools to pierce in a identical instruction if they’re not already there,” Goodwin said.
“We customarily contend habits, they rise when they’re a lot younger, afterwards they’ll continue on with them later.”
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