APPLE Schools In the News
Opinion: Healthier habits for kids key to cutting chronic disease in Alberta
Nov 30, 2022 - The Edmonton Journal published an op-ed piece written by our board chair, Lory Laing, about APPLE Schools' key role in improving worsening health habits. "As post-pandemic health trends worsen, Apple Schools’ intervention is needed more than ever to ensure kids learn the skills and knowledge required to make healthy decisions in a fast-changing world."Implementing CSH Through APPLE Schools
Feb 28, 2022 - Since APPLE Schools started working with Aurora Middle School in Lac La Biche, Alberta, in 2016, the school has made tremendous leaps in creating a healthy culture and really embedded healthy choices in all corners! A big shout out goes to the dedicated health champion in the school, Colleen Moghrabi, who has contributed this wonderful narrative about the many healthy and positive changes in the school to the ATA Middle School Council Newsletter. Read her full story.APPLE Schools helps kids become healthier for life
Feb 16, 2022 - The University of Alberta highlights APPLE Schools' 15 years of tremendous impact on student health across Canada. The article celebrate some key figures involved in our success, particularly around the research that makes APPLE Schools a one-of-a-kind game changer in the health promotion world!Fuel Up for Lunch
Sep 21, 2021 - A new school year means new routines, and routines require embracing some positive habits. One of those new-school-year habits includes packing a nutritious and wholesome (and delicious!) lunch. Here's how!Want to build a healthy school? Just ask the experts
Apr 7, 2021 - Thanks to HundrED for highlighting APPLE Schools as part of a series promoting healthy habits to students for World Health Day. We submitted an article touting the secret behind APPLE Schools' success – school communities!Edmonton-based APPLE Schools selected for LEAP’s Healthy Futures Accelerator
Dec 7, 2020 - Edmonton’s APPLE Schools is one of three Alberta organizations selected for LEAP’s Healthy Futures Accelerator. With support from LEAP, APPLE Schools has a goal of reaching 62,000 student over the next five years.
Risk of ADHD diagnosis lower in children who follow healthy lifestyle recommendations, study shows
Jun 12, 2020 - Exciting new study alert! A healthy lifestyle may help prevent the development and severity of ADHD in children and youth. The study, conducted by the School of Public Health, University of Alberta, highlights the impactful, far-reaching effects of the work that APPLE schools do to ensure healthy behaviours in students.8 Essential Elements that Help Transform Kids' Health & Well-being
Feb 20, 2020 - APPLE Schools has developed a pretty solid model to ensure improvements to students’ long-term physical activity, healthy eating, and mental health habits. Here are the 8 essential elements to consider when building a healthy school community!Students Taste Test Vegetable of the Month
Jan 24, 2020 - Students at Lac La Biche's Aurora Middle School gathered in the school's on-site greenhouse on January 8, to collect bundles of a certain leafy vegetable to share with schoolmates. The vegetable selected for this month's student taste test is kale.School-focused health promotion project gets international recognition
Jan 14, 2020 - APPLE Schools, a school-focused health promotion project, has been selected as one of the world’s top 100 most innovative and inspiring education projects of 2020 by HundrED, whose goal is to improve education through pedagogically-sound education initiatives. This article dives into the history of the world-class research from the School of Public Health which supported our successful project.APPLE Schools program presentation made to Council
Nov 14, 2019 - FORT ST. JOHN, B.C. – School Health Facilitators Courtney Baumeister and Christine Bourgeois made a presentation to City Council regarding a new initiative to their schools called APPLE Schools, a growing organization that recently received international recognition.APPLE School program gains international recognition
Nov 8, 2019 - An Alberta-based school program is getting international recognition for it’s innovative approach to a school-focused promotion of health.A City of Healthy Schools
Aug 21, 2019 - June 20, 2019 - Fort McMurray is a healthy city, and it starts in elementary schools. Since 2011, schools began taking part in a health promotion program called APPLE Schools, working with the organization to make the healthy choice an easy choice for students.