For special needs students in the RISE program at William James Middle School in Fort Worth, the Life Lab Learning Garden is a place to grow. Not just the potatoes, carrots, and cilantro teeming from the raised garden beds situated in a school courtyard, but also the sort of personal growth that comes from learning how to bring that food to life.
Pickleball is trending up in popularity and down in age. The once obscure sport is gaining popularity among the elementary, middle, and high school set everywhere, including within the Fort Worth Independent School District (FWISD). To take advantage of that trend and encourage physical activity, Fort Worth After School (FWAS), a nationally recognized enrichment program that provides after school activities for FWISD students, held its first pickleball tournament on Saturday, March 23, at R.D. Evans Community Center.
Student groups from six area schools will soon implement their proposals to improve campus well-being as winners of 2024 Wellness Innovation Grants. Now in its fifth year, the Wellness Innovation Grant is sponsored by Texas Health Resources and underwritten by the Fort Worth-based R4 Foundation. Four $5,000 grants and two $2,500 grants – a total of $25,000 – was awarded to elementary, middle, and high schools with the best plans for making healthy choices easier at their campuses.
Students from six area elementary, middle and high schools will soon make a lasting impact on the well-being of their schools as winners of the 2023 Wellness Innovation Grant competition. The fourth annual competition awarded a total of $25,000 to student teams that presented the best plans for making healthy choices easier on campus.
Good For You Pantry opens at C.C. Moss Elementary, the first of 10 additional fresh produce pantries thanks to funding from Tarrant County ARPA grant.
From classrooms to living rooms across Fort Worth, students and families tuned in to the Blue Zones Project Virtual Family Summit in November and early December to learn fun and simple ways to get healthy together.
Students at two Fort Worth schools will return in the fall to find recess a lot more fun thanks to colorful sidewalk games created by Texas Health volunteers and Blue Zones Project Fort Worth. The games, including hopscotch, chess, tic-tac-toe and basketball, were recently painted at Versia Williams and M.H. Moore elementary schools as part of a “recess refresh” to the paved areas of the schools’ playgrounds.
Fort Worth schools are about to get growing again!
Winning school projects include gardens, relaxation room, and “buddy benches” to enhance well-being on campus.