Nutrition Tools for Schools© is a program to help schools create a healthy nutrition environment. It complements the Ministry of Education's Foundations for a Healthy School.

The Nutrition Tools for Schools© toolkit provides a wide range of resources and interactive tools to support school communities in their effort to help create healthy eating environments.

The nutrition standards do not apply to lunches or snacks brought from home.

The program takes a whole school approach to health, food and nutrition. It outlines healthy eating strategies for all places where food and beverages are offered or sold:

• classroom
• school
• home
• community

Nutrition Tools for Schools© provides communication tools to assist schools with establishing a committee, conducting an assessment of the current school nutrition environment and creating an action plan to achieve their goals.

Factsheets

All factsheets provided by the Ontario Society of Nutrition Professionals in Public Health

• Appropriate Scheduling of Nutrition Breaks (PDF)
• Handwashing at School (PDF)
• Healthy Catered Lunches (PDF)
• Healthy Choices for Vending Machines (PDF)
• Healthy Classroom Celebrations (PDF)
• Healthy Classroom Rewards (PDF)
• Healthy Pizza Days (PDF)
• Healthy Refreshments for School Meetings and Events (PDF)
• Healthy School Fundraising (PDF)
• Healthy School Tuck Shops (PDF)
• Nutrition Children and the School Environment (PDF)
• Safe and Pleasant Eating Areas at School (PDF)
• Starting a School Milk Program (PDF)

Resources for Teachers

All teacher resources provided by the Ontario Society of Nutrition Professionals in Public Health

• Are You Body Wise (PDF)
• Evaluating Nutrition Information What Should You Believe (PDF)
• Helping Young People Develop a Positive Body Image (PDF)
• Nutrition on the Net Sorting through the Facts and the Fiction (PDF)
• The Balanced Approach (PDF)
• What Kind of Role Model are You (PDF)

Contact & More Information

For more information or to learn how your school can become a Nutrition Tools for Schools© school, contact our School Health Co-ordinator at 519.482.3416 or 1.877.837.6143.