All the classes enjoyed making tasty fruit snacks to celebrate Fruity Friday today. There were fruit kebabs, frozen bananas dipped in coconut, dried fruit mixes, mango sorbets and baked apples, to name a few. All were delicious and eagerly shared. The children were also invited to come to school dressed in fruity colours; some classes are wearing yellow and ‘Going Bananas’.
Fruity Friday is an annual awareness and fundraising campaign for the World Cancer Research Fund. Its long-term goal is to encourage children to lead a healthy lifestyle. Fruity Friday campaign is a great way to get across this message in a fun way. All the donations from our Fruity Friday Dress Down will be given to the local Turks and Caicos Cancer Society.
Fruity Friday was the final day of our latest ‘Be Active Week’, wherein the school focuses its effort to raise awareness of keeping fit and healthy. Many children took part in our ‘Walk and Stride’, walk to school challenge. There were also surveys on healthy snacks and children made posters at home about keeping fit. Unfortunately, our planned ‘Beat the Banana’ run was cancelled due to heavy rain. Many classes continued the fun regardless with class activities, including our fun ‘spot the banana’ quiz, in which the children had to identify local landmarks that a banana was photographed at.