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Healthy minds, healthy bodies Pond Inlet students meet to work on living better
Peter Worden
Northern News Services
Published Friday, February 15, 2013
MITTIMATALIK/POND INLET
Healthy minds need exercise just like healthy bodies, and so, like those who find strength in workout groups, students at Nasivvik High School in Pond Inlet have formed a Healthy School Club to stretch their mental muscles, jog their collective memory and pump up their personalities.
The Healthy School Club at Nasivvik High School is not your average after-school club. Here posing for a photo during a taco party are, from back left, Tyrone Pewatoalook, Jonathan Pitseolak, student support teacher Anne Rowsell, vice-principal Susan Robinson-Burnie, Peter Inootik, Lindsay Qanguq, Lynn Angnatsiak; and, in front, from left, are Ryan Arnakallak, Holly Kayotak, Anna Kiyopik, mental health nurse Tasha Kaulbach and Napatsie Kasarnak. - photo courtesy of Susan Robinson-Burnie
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"We put together a committee that had a vision to promote a healthy and safe learning environment that could encompass other activities for students," said vice-principal Susan Robinson-Burnie, explaining how some students extinguished their cigarettes after last fall's Tobacco Has No Place Here campaign and ignited an interest in other methods of healthy living.
The Healthy School Club consists of 10 participants and six staff and so far as offered such activities as games, role-play acting, casual chatting, open question discussions, videos and promoting the club in the school with incentives like class pizza parties.
The club has already met a few times this year and covered discussion topics from tobacco use to self-esteem and personal strengths and interests.
A mental health staff worker is also present to provide extra support in areas that are necessary to carry out a well-balanced program, said Robinson-Burnie.
"The group has grown from four to 10 students and we hope more will join," said Robinson-Burnie. "It's exciting to see students getting involved. We're really proud of it."
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