Smart Swap Winners Morley Newlands Primary School

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Children at one Morley school were delighted when they won a chance to meet Rhinos players Ash Handley and Robbie Ward after a top performance in the Smart Swaps healthy eating challenge this year.

Recent data suggests more than one in ten Leeds children in their last year at primary school are overweight, so Leeds City Council’s Public Health team have teamed up with schools and Leeds Rhinos to encourage families to make easy swaps from unhealthy snacks and healthy ones. Following this year’s Smart Swapathon challenge, Morley Newlands Primary were the winners of the Smart Swaps Leeds Rugby Assembly.

Councillor Lisa Mulherin, Chair of the Leeds Health and Wellbeing Board, said:

“Leeds has been doing really well in recent Smart Swap campaigns, and I was delighted to hear about the amazing efforts made by the children at Morley Newlands Primary school to eat more healthily. It is great that alongside thousands of other individuals and families around the city, they are heading in the right direction to live longer, healthier lives by ditching unhealthy snacks and swapping to alternatives which are just as tasty, but also better for them.”

Emma Strachan, health improvement specialist with Leeds City Council’s Public Health team, said:

“Healthy diets make a big difference to your health. For instance, we know sugar doesn’t just have an impact on teeth, it causes fat to build up inside the body, with potential consequences like heart disease, some cancers, or type 2 diabetes later in life.

“The Smart Swapathon has been a great chance to get loads of people, schools and organisations on board with making healthier choices.”

Janet Munro, healthy schools co-ordinator at Morley Newlands primary school said:

“Mums and dads want a healthy diet for their children and we’ve been delighted to help encourage the children to take up the challenge. It has been great to see the children do so well and we were delighted to have the Rhinos come along to school as a reward.”

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