{"id":4741,"date":"2023-11-30T16:53:17","date_gmt":"2023-11-30T16:53:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thestar.test\/2023\/11\/30\/school-inspires-healthy-lifestyles\/"},"modified":"2023-12-02T18:32:54","modified_gmt":"2023-12-02T18:32:54","slug":"school-inspires-healthy-lifestyles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thestar.com.au\/blog\/school-inspires-healthy-lifestyles\/","title":{"rendered":"School inspires healthy lifestyles"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"metasingle\"> \t\t\t\t<span class=\"postDate\">Tuesday, October 31st, 2017<\/span> | <span class=\"postAuthor\">Posted by <a href=\"\/blog\/author\/sarahvella\/\" title=\"Posts by Sarah Vella\" rel=\"author\">Sarah Vella<\/a><\/span> \t\t\t<\/div>\n<p><!-- \/metas <!-- --> \t\t\t \t\t\t<\/p>\n<h1 class=\"singlePageTitle\">School inspires healthy lifestyles<\/h1>\n<p>HEALTH and wellbeing is of utmost importance at Wonthaggi Secondary College.<br \/> The school celebrated Physical Education and Health Week last week, which is supported by the school every year.<br \/> \u201cIt\u2019s all about promoting awareness and encouraging everyone to be physically active,\u201d health and PE coordinator Marty Chan said.<br \/> To mark the occasion, a number of activities ran throughout the week for all students.<br \/> Most importantly, the Year 9 students participated in Sex Education and Party Safe session in Cape Paterson, run by local nurses.<br \/> Other activities included the Year 7\u2019s limbo competition and the staff against students basketball tournament, which was hilarious for those who were watching and ultimately won by the staff.<br \/> The week ended with an out of school uniform day, in which everyone was encouraged to come in their sports gear.<br \/> The costumes were creative with roller skates, retro tennis outfits and swimming gear making an appearance.<br \/> Wonthaggi Secondary College is an active school, so the usual physical education sessions were not altered by the week\u2019s events.<br \/> On any given week during terms one and four, students are out participating in activities like surfing, cycling, canoeing, fishing and archery.<br \/> \u201cOur program is extensive to maintain that awareness of health and staying physically active,\u201d Mr Chan said.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_23021\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/zTK31sportsdayWSC05.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-23021\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/zTK31sportsdayWSC05.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/zTK31sportsdayWSC05.jpg 640w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/zTK31sportsdayWSC05-300x200.jpg 300w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/zTK31sportsdayWSC05-342x228.jpg 342w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Creative: back from left, Laila Kane-Dipaolo, Chloe Cengia, Ruby Gage, Mason Vanderkolk, Holly Hughes, front from left, Winnie Graham and Orana Lynch showcased some fantastic ideas for Wonthaggi Secondary College\u2019s Physical Education and Health Week out of uniform day on Friday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><small><strong>Short URL<\/strong>: \/?p=23024<\/small><\/p>\n<div class=\"clear\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"entryMeta\"> \t\t\t\t\t<img alt='' src='https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/68da75e3080b845539d6604f663da0aa?s=39&#038;d=mm&#038;r=g' srcset='https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/68da75e3080b845539d6604f663da0aa?s=78&#038;d=mm&#038;r=g 2x' class='avatar avatar-39 photo' height='39' width='39' \/>\t\t\t\t\tPosted by  <a href=\"\/blog\/author\/sarahvella\/\" title=\"Posts by Sarah Vella\" rel=\"author\">Sarah Vella<\/a>  \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\ton Oct 31 2017. Filed under <a href=\"\/blog\/category\/sport\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Sport<\/a>. \t\t\t\t\tYou can follow any responses to this entry through the <a href=\"\/blog\/school-inspires-healthy-lifestyles\/feed\/\">RSS 2.0<\/a>. \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tYou can leave a response or trackback to this entry\t\t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"clear\"><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tuesday, October 31st, 2017 | Posted by Sarah Vella School inspires healthy lifestyles HEALTH and wellbeing is of utmost importance at Wonthaggi Secondary College. The school celebrated Physical Education and Health Week last week, which is supported by the school every year. \u201cIt\u2019s all about promoting awareness and encouraging everyone to be physically active,\u201d health [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,8,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thestar.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4741"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thestar.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thestar.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thestar.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thestar.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4741"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thestar.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15214,"href":"https:\/\/thestar.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4741\/revisions\/15214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thestar.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thestar.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thestar.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}