Wellness Fair: Health, Safety, Nutrition

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Part 1: Rationale
Wellness Fair: Health
The first approach taken for the promotion of health is Whole Child Approach in
order to ensure that every student enrols under the school health program and comprehensive
promotion of healthy lifestyle (Lewallen, Hunt, Potts‐Datema, Zaza & Giles, 2015). For
comprehensive health education both physical education (physical exercise) and nutritional
services was undertaken. This will help in the management of obesity and malnutrition. In the
class profile, there is a child who is suffering from hypothyroidism. Weight gain is one of
principal symptom of hypothyroidism and diabetes and thus physical education will help in
overcoming the threats of obesity (Sanyal & Raychaudhuri, 2016). The socio-economic status
of all the children in the class is either low or middle. Bowers, Francis and Kraschnewski
(2018) stated that in U.S, the children who are from the low or middle socio-economic status
have dual burden of malnutrition (obesity or non-communicable disease is couple with
malnutrition). The nutritional services will help in overcoming the vulnerability of
malnutrition. In the nutritional service, special focus in give for the class room students who
have certain level of food level allergies like peanut and citrus. Peanut or citrus allergy leads
to the generation of type 1 hypersensitivity reaction causing an outbreak of skin infection,
swelling in throat and shortness in breath. Such effect can prove to be fatal for a child and
proper attention of food allergy is vital for nutritional service planning. While giving physical
education basal metabolic rate (BMR), amount of calorie intake and basal metabolic index
(BMI). Lewallen, Hunt, Potts‐Datema, Zaza and Giles (2015) argued that for proper health
education of a child must encompass these terms through verbal description in order to
increase their comprehensive knowledge about of quality of life and health. The equipments
to be used for health education are food charts, nutritional brochures, and power-point

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presentations. The interactive sessions will be helpful for the students having visual
impairment and learning disability.
Wellness Fair: Safety
In the wellness fair of safety, both physical safety and emotional safety of the child
were taken under consideration. Child physical abuse is one of the important causes of
pediatric mortality and morbidity in U.S and is associated with serious mental and physical
health complications that cast adverse effect during adulthood (Christian & Committee on
Child Abuse and Neglect, 2015). Under this wellness fair, the child will be educated
regarding where to seek help in case of becoming victim of sexual assault. Van der Kolk
(2017) highlight that majority of the children who are victims of sexual abuse either fails to
understand that they are becoming victims or suffer from fear of reporting the same. Having
knowledge about types of physical abuse and how to report it, will help in overcoming the
mental health trauma of childhood physical abuse. In order to address complains on their own
(or by taking help from parents, as they are kindergarten child), student with internet access
at home will be given special avenues and thus assisting in instant reporting of the abuse.
Nearly 50% of the children of the selected class have internet access and thus helping to
promote fast reporting of the cases of abuse. For ensuring further health safety education will
be given in diabetic health and hypothyroidism and the focus of the education will parents, as
they will help to manage the proper lifestyle of the affect child. Sverdlov and Aram (2016)
stated that for child in a kindergarten school, parents are the focus of education for promotion
of the physical health and safety. Improving physical health and safety will help in improving
their mental health status.
Wellness Fair: Nutrition
The main instructional decision for this wellness program is comprehensive
participation of the all students irrespective of their socio-economic status. All the students,

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taking into consideration of their disabilities will be asked to participate in the nutritional
program. The encouragement of the student to work on their effective communication skills
will help the student to not only learn about the process of healthy nutrition but also to work
excel in the interpersonal skills (Nagahori, Tchuani & Yamauchi, 2015). The use of care
games in order to make the student acquainted with the terms like nutrition, nutrients,
vitamins, minerals and balanced diet will help the student to understand the concept of
nutrition. The use of the cards will help to attract the attention f the students who are aged
between 55 to 6 years and will also help to refine their spelling, reading and writing skills.
Nutrition is not separated from the physical exercise. Proper practice of physical exercise
along with adherence of nutrition helps to improve healthy lifestyle habits and thus helping
the children to have comprehensive health and well-being. Under the instructional decision,
computers will be used in order for physical activity planning. However, few gaps can be
easily highlighted in the instructional decision of the nutritional wellness plan. For example,
in the effective communication, only students are recruited as the main participants.
However, the children who are between 4 to 5 years of age, parents also play an important
role in the nutritional planning. Moreover, children who have learning disabilities, the role of
the parents become crucial for increasing the nutritional education and planning (Petit et al.
2016). No special considerations have been taken for the students who do not have proper
internet access at home.