SmallSteps4Life
Tuesday 2 February 2010
SmallSteps4Life is an interactive website designed to inspire and support young people across the UK to take their own small steps to improve their health and well-being, by setting themselves lifestyle challenges.
Aimed at primary and secondary school pupils, SmallSteps4Life is based around the three themes of healthy eating, getting active and feeling good. Within these themes, examples of challenges that young people might set themselves include: eating a healthy breakfast every day, walking to and from school with friends or speaking to family about the day’s experiences at school.
The website will help young people eat well, get active and feel good by:
- providing interactive games, quizzes, classroom resources and tips for setting lifestyle challenges
- enabling schools to promote what they are doing and share their experiences with other schools
SmallSteps4Life is the result of a pilot project that was carried out at six schools in Kent during 2008. More than 70% of primary school students and 65% of secondary school students who completed questionnaires said they were still going with their health challenges, four months after the end of the pilot. A full evaluation report of the project can be found on Foodbase at the link below.
Using the Olympics to help inspire young people to make long-term behaviour changes, SmallSteps4Life is leading the healthy and active lifestyles strand of Get Set, the London 2012 education programme. It also supports the Change4Life programme. You can find out more at the links below.
You can visit the SmallSteps4Life website at the link below to register on the site and find advice on how to help your school get involved in the SmallSteps4Life programme.