Bryant Peace Committee 2010-11: Nutrition
For the 2010-11 school year, the peace committee students have chosen Nutrition as their focus. To date we have
• Provided Leadership training to 6 middle school students,
• Enrolled 30 students in our weekly after school peace program
• Organized a family Harvest for Health Dance at which we will kick off our
• Healthy Food Drive for Tacoma’s Food Connection
• Designed and implemented and International Peace Day Assembly and rededicated ourselves as an International Peace Site,
• Started a tea garden in our school garden to provide herbal tea to classrooms.
• Began collecting recipes for a Healthy Kids Cookbook
• Bagged up over 500 individual servings of a protein mix for the Food Connections Back Pack Program
• Provided an after school class on non-violent communication training to the students in the peace committee.
Other goals for the year include:
• Selling our Whirled Peas Cookbook
• Promoting healthy snacks in our school and at school events
• Raising $5000.00 for Heifer Project in Africa
• Attending the Desmond Tutu event in May at the Tacoma Dome
• Organizing and Implementing an Earth Day Garden Fair and Parade of the Species
• Publish a monthly article on healthy food choices
• Purchasing, Painting and installing 4 more rain barrels on our school.
• Implement a compassionate schools and/or a non-violent communication program in our school.