Mission: Working Together to Promote Healthy Living in Fremont County
Vision: A Culture of Well-being: Awareness and Action
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The Fremont Regional Health & Wellness Team serves all of Fremont County and is based in School District RE-1. Our preventative initiatives and best practices service the 5,300-plus students and their families in RE-1, RE-2 and RE-3 within the ten areas of Whole School, Whole Community, Whole Child: Health Education; Physical Education & Physical Activity; Nutrition Environment & Services; Health Services; Counseling, Psychological, and Social Services; Social & Emotional Climate; Physical Environment; Employee Wellness; Family Engagement; and Community Involvement.
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Rethink your drink
Lincoln School of Science and Technology is taking sugar consumption seriously. Together, wellness co-leader Tara Oliva and wellness team member Susan Buckles created an awesome display in the school's main hallway for students, staff, and parents to learn about the amounts of sugar that are found in common drinks. As part of the District's push to increase hydration by installing bottle filling hydration stations in each school, this education and awareness display is a great way to rethink your drink throughout each day.
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Power Panther visits schools
September 26, 2016 at the RE-1 Board of Education meeting, Cañon City Schools was recognized by the Colorado Department of Education, Office of School Nutrition as one of the few districts in the state to earn the Healthier US School Challenge: Smarter Lunchrooms movement Bronze award level. This accomplishment includes a school banner, plaque, and monetary award for each winning school: CCHS, CCMS, CES, Lincoln, McKinley, Harrison, and Washington. To enhance launch week, Power Panther is visiting the winning schools during lunch periods. The kids are loving the special visitor who has a simple message of, "Eat Smart. Play Hard!" From the words of Heather Hauswirth, RD and Program Specialist with CDE Office pf School Nutrition, "The Colorado Department of Education Office of School Nutrition commends Canon City School District. This award exemplifies the district’s efforts to make changes to its nutrition environment, improve the quality of the foods served, provide students with quality nutrition education and enhance its physical education and activity program. The HUSSC: SL application truly requires the support and collaboration of the entire school community. It is evident that Canon City embraces the Center for Disease Control’s Whole School, Whole Community, Whole Child educational model."
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Fremont Elementary has annual obstacle course
Fremont Elementary School students made the rounds recently. For the 13th year in a row, physical education teacher Kim Wilson put together a gymnasium-sized obstacle course to help get the students back and ready to go after a two-week Christmas Break. |
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“When they come after Christmas Break, it’s a nice way to throw all the kids back into being active, throw all the jitters out and they’re ready to go back to classes,” Wilson said. “It gets them more motivated.”
The obstacle course stayed in the gym the entire first week back from Christmas Break. Because FES has two physical education teachers, Wilson and Jeremy Young, and each class will have at least four sessions to make the laps. The 16-obstacle course features stations such as balance beams, tunnels, a cargo net and a rope swing.
The course is always a finale to the climbing unit, Wilson said. She enjoys the day because the students come in, get their objectives and then it’s constant from there.
“We always do our intro and our objectives and then the kids are on their own and it’s constant,” she said. “This is our most active – intensely active – lesson for that long of period.”
She said the fifth-grade classes enter the gym, and since they need very little discipline, they get about 35 minutes of moderate to vigorous physical activity. Wilson said the fifth-graders can barely make it through the entire time.
One of the neatest parts of the obstacle course is when special needs students meet certain milestones.
“It’s a big accomplishment if the special needs kids will get on the bottom of (the cargo net),” Wilson said. “It’s a big accomplishment if the special needs kids will go through the tunnel, balance beams, those are huge.”
Other staff members usually make appearances in the gym throughout the week and take a chance at certain obstacles.
The obstacle course stayed in the gym the entire first week back from Christmas Break. Because FES has two physical education teachers, Wilson and Jeremy Young, and each class will have at least four sessions to make the laps. The 16-obstacle course features stations such as balance beams, tunnels, a cargo net and a rope swing.
The course is always a finale to the climbing unit, Wilson said. She enjoys the day because the students come in, get their objectives and then it’s constant from there.
“We always do our intro and our objectives and then the kids are on their own and it’s constant,” she said. “This is our most active – intensely active – lesson for that long of period.”
She said the fifth-grade classes enter the gym, and since they need very little discipline, they get about 35 minutes of moderate to vigorous physical activity. Wilson said the fifth-graders can barely make it through the entire time.
One of the neatest parts of the obstacle course is when special needs students meet certain milestones.
“It’s a big accomplishment if the special needs kids will get on the bottom of (the cargo net),” Wilson said. “It’s a big accomplishment if the special needs kids will go through the tunnel, balance beams, those are huge.”
Other staff members usually make appearances in the gym throughout the week and take a chance at certain obstacles.
