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CATCH Benefits
Medrano Middle School is a CATCH School
How is CATCH benefiting the students, staff, and families at Medrano Middle School?
- Improving the nutritional quality of school meals, and promote and coordinate ideas for linking good food to good health. Promoting the consumption of more GO foods than SLOW foods and more SLOW foods than WHOA foods.
- Providing teachers with user-friendly, easy to implement resources that blend health topics with core academic areas.
- Getting students, parents, and extended family members involved in practicing and adopting healthy eating and physical activity behaviors at home.
- Promoting student's enjoyment and participation in moderate to vigorous physical activity (MVPA) during PE classes, extra-curricular activities, and recreation time with family and friends.