Health Week and Green Week at Lewisham College

By Mo Pamplin

Learning Facilitator

If you use the Learning Centres you will have noticed the displays in Breakspears, Tressillian and Deptford this week and last.

Last week was Health Week, and the Learning Centres worked with staff in the ES Team to organise events, displays and e-activities to give information and encouragement on getting fit and staying healthy.

In the modern world it’s hard to eat a proper diet, get enough exercise and, frankly, keep your head! When we organised Health Week, we wanted to remind people that keeping healthy and eating well will give you more energy, keep stress at bay, and, in short, make life easier, not more difficult.

So we had some cookery books, exercise books, films and DVDs on display to give you an idea of how you can use the Learning Centres to keep in shape mentally and physically. We also had activities and quizzes on eME, including a “Name that Fruit” quiz, for which the lucky winner will be announced by the ES Team before half term.

We also wanted to draw attention to some important health issues such as body dysmorphia, the risk of overusing sunbeds, and OCDs (Obsessive Compulsive Disorders).

The Sports MA students also got involved, and led a session in Breakspears Learning Centre at which they invited students to have a go on the fun Wii Fit board. Well done to everyone who was brave enough to have a go.

As ever the staff in the ES Team worked really hard to make the week as fun and engaging as possible, with fruit tasting, games and information available all week.

The next event in the calendar this year is Green Week, starting on Monday. It’s impossible to ignore the massive challenge to go green – we all have to face this. So if you want to find out what you can do to reduce waste and be kinder to the planet, come along to the Learning Centres to find out what you can do. It’s not just us doing the talking – all week we’re running a competition to find out your best suggestions of how to look after the environment. You’ll be able to use a forum on eME to make suggestions, and post your ideas on noticeboards in the learning centres. At the end of the week, we’ll be awarding a prize to the best suggestion!