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Kids – ‘Go for your life’
Introducing the
Manningham
Network
The Manningham Community
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Health Service
Why target kindergartens?
• Allows positive influence on food habits & activity
levels at an early age
• Engage families’ enthusiasm prior to Primary School
years
• Kinder teachers work together cooperatively, not
competitively
• Relatively simple setting but opportunity for large
impact
• Existing network – central contact person
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Health Service
Kinder project 2007 - 2008
TERM 1:
• Conducted 3 KGFYL Information nights
& invited all 25 local kindergartens
• 9 kindergartens applied to “fast track”
with MCHS support
• 7 selected for the 2007 MCHS kinder
network.
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Health Service
Kinder network meetings
• Information & resource
sharing
• Problem solving
• Professional
development
Mentoring
• Motivation
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Health Service
MCHS program delivery
• Family Feud/Food
workshop – publicised
throughout Manningham
Kindergartens
• Supermarket tour for
parents piloted
• Parent information sessions
on active play
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Health Service
Uptake by the Chinese
community
• The children took the
messages home
• Parents found it hard
to read the
information sent
home
• Difficulty with
culturally appropriate
lunch ideas
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Health Service
Evaluation – Impact on children's
behaviours
• The creative approaches of the
teachers has captured the
children's imagination
• The children have driven the
change in what foods they take to
kinder
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Health Service
Evaluation – the kinder network
• 5/7 kindergartens - regular attendance at network
meetings
• Peer support, motivation, and ideas generation
have been features of the meetings
• Those who couldn’t attend meetings were provided
with more individual support though they did miss
the brainstorming and problem solving with their
peers
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Health Service
Where to from here?
• Our committed ‘ambassadors’ are actively
involved in planning the next phase
• Keen to spread this initiative’s reach to other
kindergartens – mentoring program
• Keen to advocate for program uptake in local
Primary Schools – celebration night
• Will continue to develop the program & ‘embed’
it in their own kinder settings
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Health Service
Challenges ahead
• Finding a meeting time that suits all
• Making the network meetings useful &
relevant to both the new kindergartens &
those already with the award
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Health Service