Health and Wellness Highlights of the Year

Our school nurse, Kelly Muenzen, in collaboration with the San Mateo County Health System, is providing student education on dental hygiene with an engaging, interactive program this spring at Las Lomitas.

Additionally, our RNs and PE teachers have been partnering with Palo Alto Medical Foundation to plan upcoming lessons on nutrition for 3rd grade PE classes.

As part of LLESD's growing Safe Routes to School program, each school was able to participate in special assemblies this past fall, including performances from Bay Area Children's Theater and Perfection on Wheels BMX Bikes, which featured educational lessons about bike/pedestrian safety.

La Entrada Middle School PTA partnered with Rise Against Hunger non-profit to create a Winter Service Project for students in grades 4-8. This service learning project involved a meal-kit build, during which students assembled 33,480 nutrient-dense meals for students in Cambodia.

All participants received a take-home resource describing long- and short-term ways to advocate for food security and fight hunger. Some student reflections after the event included the following remarks: "Even a small school can make a big difference" and "It's important for kids to know about world issues."

In addition to making a difference in other people's lives, service work such as this can reduce stress and significantly improve mental health for the volunteers, according to recent studies.

LLESD hosted a successful event with the Parent Education Series on 1-29- 19: a screening of "LIKE", the new IndieFlix Original documentary that explores the impact of social media and technology on our lives. The film had audiences asking the question, “Are you using technology or is technology using you?”

We hope to offer a new parent ed workshop in the fall to educate families on the risks of vaping and how to utilize educational resources such as the Stanford Tobacco Prevention Toolkit.

This spring, Sequoia Union High School District is offering a Vaping/JUUL Education Workshop presented by Stanford’s Tobacco Prevention Toolkit scheduled for Monday, March 18th, 7:00- 8:30pm at the SUHSD District Office. These workshops are free for the LLESD parent community. Register HERE.