Diet only sessions | ||||
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Location | Topic | Intervention session aims, content and mode of delivery | ||
 |  | Awareness raising | Skill development/Learning activities | Delivery# |
Primary school | 5-a day fruit and vegetables | * The five-a day message * Fruit and salad alternatives to energy dense snacks | * Making simple fruit and salad vegetables dishes; * Tasting session; * Fruit and vegetable goal setting | * Interactive knowledge sessions; * Small group work |
Secondary school | Healthy snacks | * Incorporating dietary alternatives to energy dense drinks/snacks e.g. one smoothie per day | * Design and make fruit smoothies and savoury dips; * Tasting session | * Small group work |
 | Fats in the diet | The role of fats: * as part of a healthy diet; * in the energy density of foods | * Group discussion; * Worksheets; * Demonstration of types of fats * Understanding traffic light food labelling | * Powerpoint presentation; * Whole group demonstration |
POW | Breakfast options | * Importance of eating breakfast; * The impact of skipping breakfast on food intake throughout the day | * Discussion/reflection on own habits; * Tasting session of various healthy breakfast options | * Powerpoint presentation and discussion; * Whole group activities |
PA only sessions | ||||
Primary school | Benefits of PA | * Understanding the benefits of PA; * Maintaining healthy body weight | * Circuit training- style range of activities; * Group discussion | * Local authority PA advisor-led whole group and small group activities |
 | Conventional sport | * Using popular activity to reinforce PA messages | * Game of football; * Group discussion | * Team game; Whole group activities |
Secondary school | "Street dance" | * Using popular activity to reinforce PA messages | * Learning and executing a dance routine; * Group discussion | * Professional-led dance session; * Whole group activities |
 | PA frequency, intensity, type and time (FITT) principles | * Physical activity requirements for health; * FITT principles; * Active leisure; * Increasing PA in daily activities and reducing sedentary behaviours | * Group discussion; * Worksheets; * Goal setting (to accumulate additional 1 hr PA over individually set timeframe) | * Power-point presentation; * Small group activities |
POW | Physical activity and energy balance | * Principles of PA; * How PA is linked to energy balance | * Group discussion; * Worksheets; * Demonstration of pulse reading | * Power-point presentation; * Small group activities; * Whole group demonstration |
Combined Diet and PA sessions | ||||
Primary school | Arterial stiffness | * Heart health; * Heart and arterial stiffness in relation to diet, PA and cardiovascular fitness | * 20 m 'shuttle run' assessment of cardiovascular fitness | * Powerpoint presentation and discussion * Small group activities |
 | Energy balance | * Principles of energy balance. | * Worksheets; * Interactive session with foods; * Quiz | * Powerpoint presentation; * Small group activities |