WELLNESS CLUB

• School wellness club plays a major role in every part of the school environment from the lunchroom to the classroom, to the play ground, to the office room.
• It promotes healthy eating habits, physical activities, nutrition education, and physical education in order to increase student achievement.
• It not only supports the health of the students, but also helps to boost the academic performance.
• Small activities like brushing teeth, washing hands, eating breakfast every day helps students to remain focused on school and improve their classroom behaviour.

ACTIVITIES UNDER WELLNESS CLUB

Personal Hygiene:

Poster preparation, Chart presentation, demonstration on the below activities

• Brushing techniques.
• Bathing techniques.
• Hand Wash techniques.
• Hygiene of girl students during monthly periods (Video class).
• Shaving hair (Private parts).
• Nails cutting and hair cutting.

Know your body:

• Fascinating human body facts.
• Preparing questionnaire to check the health status of the students.
• Knowing the internal systems of the body and their functions, chart preparation.
• Sense organs and their functions, chart preparation.

Physical Fitness:

• Performing
• Aerobics
• Yoga
• Meditation, Pranayama.
• Simple exercises
• Dancing, laughing, Pyramids
• Walkathon (5k walk, 2k walk)

Communicable diseases & chronic diseases:

• Gathering information on different communicable and chronic diseases.
• Chart presentation on AIDS, Swine flu, Dengue, Malaria and other communicable diseases
• Chart presentation on Fits, Asthma, Epilepsy, Anemia and other chronicle diseases Organizing Rally's, flash mobs and Awareness campaigns on these activities in the school as well as in nearby villages

Grandma's remedies for various health problems:

• Visit to the dining hall, kitchen garden, Medicinal garden & flower garden and identifying various plants, herbs, shrubs, roots, spices that have medicinal value to cure these diseases like

1.  Stomach ache
2.  Cold, Cough
3.  Pains
4.  Allergies

• Chart preparation on these homemade remedies

First aid to different accidents:

• Preparing a first aid box.
• Poster and chart preparation on different accidents and the first aid to be given in a systematic process
• Demonstration on different accidents and the first aid to be given

Different phobias:

• Inviting scientists/Learned people/ Janavignana Vedhika people to the school to speak on different superstitions and other phobias.
• Invite psychiatrist to speak on different phobias and how to overcome these phobia's Conduct different experiments to expose the tricks by Babas and others who are cheating people in the name of god.

Balanced Diet:

• Organizing Food Mela.
• Preparation of balanced diet meal.
• Importance of "sprouts".
• "Role play" on different Carbohydrates, Vitamins, Minerals, Proteins, roughages in maintaining the health of the students.
• The role of balanced diet in maintaining health of the students.
• Importance of water. Preparing Amrutha Aaharam (raw food).

Wellness Feast (at the end of the year):

• Celebrations of wellness club
• Organizing a Camp fire, showcasing the different activities of the wellness club through a wall magazine, posters, skits, etc.