Your School Council is sponsoring a team of students, teachers and parents to participate in the up and coming City-To-Surf fun run, in an effort to raise community involvement in your school.

To be eligible to join the team, you must get yourself into peak condition for the 12km run/walk. The School Council will be assessing applicants on their training and fitness preparation.

To get to on your way, fill in the personal weekly food intake log (or download out a Word version) to discover your own dietary habits. Compare your results with those recommended in the food pyramid for your age group. Record the number of different foods eaten in each category over the week and graph (pie/bar etc) using Word, Appleworks, Compute-a-Graph, or similiar.

Start a weekly exercise diary, (or download a Word version)include all the daily physical activity you do, e.g. soccer training, swimming lessons, riding your bike to school and compare your physical activity with others in your class. Maintain a Run Chart to record the total daily exercise you are doing. Consider a variety of cross training strategies in order to maintain interest and commitment to the Challenge.

TO WIN . . . All applicants must submit an oral presentation incorporating either PowerPoint, Kid Pix SlideShow, video, digital photo slideshow, or overheads etc, to the School Council to win a place on the team. This presentation is to include: an exercise program for the 10 weeks leading up to the City-To-Surf a healthy, balanced and enjoyable eating program suitable for your age an exposition detailing the benefit of selecting you for the team. (Helpful notes:How To write an exposition...)

City to Surf
Kids nutrition information
Everything you want to know about the human body
Training and exercise issues for young people

Seek out health and fitness resources in your school and local libraries too!