Healthy Schools Day April 26, 2010
Promote healthy breathing and high performance at your school. Use these checklists to identify problems that need your help. Find the strengths and weaknesses in your school's health and safety policies and practices. Work together to fix up and clean up your school. For more ideas for Healthy Schools Day activities go to #1 Plan Your Activity.
Mass PTA is participating in the Healthy Schools Network 2010 National Healthy Schools Day, April 26. National Healthy Schools Day is an important day for everyone to celebrate and promote healthy and green school environments for all children through the use of US Environmental Protection Agency’s Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) Tools for Schools (TfS) Program. National Healthy Schools Day is coordinated by Healthy Schools Network in collaboration with US EPA and the Council of Educational Facility Planners – International (CEFPI). It is the first day of School Building Week. The 2010 campaign will focus on using certified green cleaning products which help reduce pollutants from indoor air. http://www.nationalhealthyschoolsday.org/
We encourage units to plan activities (Do parent-teacher walk-throughs to identify opportunities for clean-up/fix-up projects, promote green cleaning policies, improve parent involvement in safety and wellness policies...)
Did you know:
- 25% of chemicals in the cleaning products used in schools are toxic and contribute to poor indoor air quality, smog, cancer, asthma, and other disease, and,
- that’s more than 450 contaminants of air found in widely used products?
- Display Your Support
http://www.nationalhealthyschoolsday.org/activity.html
- Plan Your Activity
http://www.nationalhealthyschoolsday.org/activity.html#PlanActivity
- Register Your Activity
http://www.nationalhealthyschoolsday.org/register_form.html
