The factsheets cover issues like the importance of healthy lifestyle,
healthy lunchboxes, the importance of breakfast, hydration, fruit and
vegetable consumption, TV addiction and physical activity. We have provided links to
some of our factsheets below. Sign up to our
free email bulletin, and we will keep you updated with any new parent
resources that we develop.
RedBranch Parent Factsheets for Download
Introduction to Lifestyle Issues
(PDF 294 KB)
Healthy Breakfast
(PDF 173 KB)
Healthy
Lunch Guidelines (PDF 276 KB)
Hydration
(National School) (PDF 153 KB)
Hydration (Secondary School)
(PDF 153 KB)
Fruit,
Vegetables and Health (PDF 351
KB)
TV
& Children: Some Facts (PDF 38 KB)
TV
Tips for Parents (PDF 41 KB)
Advertising
and Children (PDF 32 KB)
Food
Shopping (PDF 35 KB)
Soft
Drinks and Children (PDF 44
KB)
How To Use the Factsheets
Schools often use our factsheets to support health related school
policy. For example, if your school adopts a healthy eating/lifestyle
policy (like the example here),
providing parents with our factsheet on healthy
school lunchboxes (which you can see by clicking here)
will help parents to see the relevance of your policy.
In our experience, parents are grateful that the school has provided them
with relevant information. In many cases, parents will have received no
prior help on this issue. If you are distributing factsheets through your
school, we advise you to distribute one or two factsheets every
term.
Most of our factsheets are focused on National School parents. In the
near future, we will be providing parallel factsheets that would be more
suitable for secondary schools.
We suggest that the initial factsheet you circulate to parents should be our
Introduction to
Lifestyle Issues.
Don't forget to register for more factsheets...simply send us an email by
clicking here.
