Wellness Committee
The Wellness Committee was created to support the health and
wellness of the P.S.29 community and to build student skills
to care for their bodies and for the Earth.
Committee projects are broken into 5 work teams which typically meet from 5-10 times over the school year.
Go Green!
The Eco-Team
This team supports the science teachers in building student awareness and action around ecological wellness, and supports waste reduction and sustainable product choices for PTA events. Team members can also help as Green Club parents who assist students to support composting and recycling, and develop ideas and guidelines on environmentally friendly alternatives.
Eat Up!
The Food and Nutrition Team
The Food and Nutrition team promotes the education about and provision of healthy food choices throughout the school. We support food-related programming for Super Science Saturday and other special events, and Wellness In The Schools (WITS) trainings for the students. We also organize Harvest Week each fall with the Garden team.
Farm On!
The Garden Team
The garden team works to support the PS29 Children's garden as a place for growing food and growing minds of all PS29 students. We assist the science teachers in planning the garden's priorities, scheduling garden events, watering the garden, planning volunteer shifts, and leading new initiatives that involve the garden. This team also organizes Harvest Week activities each fall in coordination with the Nutrition team.
Move It!
The Fitness Team
The fitness team encourages our students and their families to participate in physical activities and educate on the importance of daily exercise – while also having FUN with friends! We organize and support a wide array of fitness and wellness events during the school year, including our Move It! Mornings, Rainy Day Recess Activities, PS29 Running Club, the PS29 Fun Run, “Kick Butts” day, and a new bike club!
Be Here Now
The Mindfulness Team
The Mindfulness team works to share, spread and incorporate mindfulness activities throughout the P.S.29 community. This team will continue to support the integration of daily mindfulness activities in the classroom into all grades Pre-K-5, set up yoga, meditation and mindfulness training for teachers and parents, and re-start the Thursday morning parent meditation.
The Wellness Committee is always looking for
new members to support our many initiatives!
Teacher Chair: Tina Reres Parent Chair: TBD for 2021-2022
Please contact us at wellness@ps29bk.org if you are interested!