Nurturing in Schools Award 2014

The Nurturing in Schools Award aims to recognize and promote practical actions in food and nutrition education carried out in schools participating in the Nestlé Nurturing Healthy Kids Program training sessions.

Where it was applied

São Paulo, Campinas, Santos, Belo Horizonte and Salvador

Period

2014

Case

Social Responsibility

Reach

1,819 educators and more than 430,000 children from 873 schools

The Nestlé Program Nurturing Healthy Kids Program works to prevent and fight child obesity and malnutrition through balanced meals combined with physical activity.

The Platform

The "Nurturing in Schools Award" platform has a hotsite where users can consult both the highlighted activities and the Good Practices organized by group and theme, and make comments on each activity or news item.

The tender system allows teachers, cooks, school managers, education department technicians, and nutritionists to register in one of the 8 thematic groups in which the activities are organized (physical education, cooks, nutritionists, early childhood education, elementary school - 6,7 and 8 years old, elementary school - 9 and 10 years old, PSE monitors, SMASAN-EAN).

Challenge Track

Once in the group, each participant finds a trail of challenges with activities to develop with their students in order to participate. Each challenge is presented in texts, videos, and in-depth material that allows you to understand the importance of carrying out the activities with your students.

Once the challenges are understood, the participants make a complete record of the activities with enough data so that other participants can replicate the activities in their schools and an evaluation of their own practice considering positive and negative elements. The system makes it possible to publish texts, videos, and photos of each of the activities developed.

The system generates a score, in real time, consisting of the sum of the evaluation scores for each activity, and automatically computes the final evaluation, defining the award winners.

Development of the special challenge "Anthropometric measurements"

A system was developed for teachers to perform the BMI assessment of each of the students, to know the physical condition of the students. The teacher weighs the students, measures their height and neck circumference, adds their age and sex and the platform calculates the Body Mass Index, the BMI percentile and the result (very underweight, underweight, normal, overweight or obese. The platform creates the individual and class graphs.

Development of the special challenge "Eating Habits"

A platform has been developed for teachers to research their students' eating habits, what they eat, what they don't eat, and how much they eat. The platform allows registration of all students in the class and allows each student to fill out a questionnaire about eating habits. The platform creates the individual and class graphs.