A SCHOOL has kicked off its campaign to become fitter and healthier to earn a healthy schools accreditation.
Buryfields Infant School, in Buryfields, King Street, Odiham, held a special assembly to explain to pupils how they will work towards achieving their goal.
It will involve a week of different physical activities to introduce new sports to pupils and children will also have lessons in making a sandwich to encourage healthy lunchboxes.
Each child in the school already has a free piece of fruit or vegetable every day.
The Healthy Schools status scheme, run by the Depart-ment for Education and Skills (DfES), promotes the health and wellbeing of pupils through a specialist curriculum.
Emily Luck, administrator at the school, explained:"It focuses on four main things - creativity, personal, social and health education, healthy eating and emot-ional development.
"It's really getting the children to focus on these things so that it becomes innate in them to live a healthy life."
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