Surveys+and+Statistics


 * Sunshine Primary Lunches**

During some wet weather earlier this term, a few of our grade 3-6 classes conducted a mini audit of their average food intake during a school day. We drew every item of food on a separate bit of scrap paper and then we decided whether they were healthy, unhealthy or in the middle. It was fantastic to see that about 75% of our food items were in the healthy pile. We did discuss, however, that the remaining 25% consisted of foods that were really unhealthy like chips, chocolate, donuts and lollies. The items in the middle were things like juice and muesli bars because many of students believed these things to be high in sugar and therefore not as healthy as some others believed.

For this audit, the students decided that any sandwich with a healthy filling was classed as a healthy food item. They did want me to note though that many of the students would have preferred the sandwiches made with white bread be placed in the middle pile instead of the healthy pile.