Ma­son Hall Gov­ern­ment Pri­ma­ry School is stag­ing one month of ac­tiv­i­ties pro­mot­ing healthy liv­ing.

The pro­gramme comes on the heels of the school win­ning the Er­ic Williams Foun­da­tion Memo­r­i­al Com­mit­tee's na­tion­al "Port­fo­lio Com­pe­ti­tion-Dr Er­ic Williams, His Life and Times". To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly (THA) Chief Sec­re­tary Orville Lon­don said the month of health­ful liv­ing shows the prin­ci­pal and teach­ers to be vi­sion­ar­ies and com­mit­ted to trans­lat­ing vi­sion in­to re­al­i­ty.

The vi­sion, ac­cord­ing to prin­ci­pal Samuel Charles, is that the school will con­tin­ue to pro­mote the all-round de­vel­op­ment of each pupil and even top the Sec­ondary En­trance Ex­am­i­na­tion in the coun­try.

Charles said pupils should be taught about good lifestyle choic­es when young so that they could make right choic­es as adults. He added that al­ready some of them were be­ing neg­a­tive­ly af­fect­ed by poor lifestyle choic­es of some fam­i­ly mem­bers. In the first week of the pro­gramme, the Nu­tri­tion Unit of the Scar­bor­ough Re­gion­al Hos­pi­tal will screen staff and stu­dents for chron­ic ill­ness­es.

Di­etary tech­ni­cian Dar­ren Hinds said the unit had been en­gaged in a Nu­tri­tion Ed­u­ca­tion Pro­gramme in schools across To­ba­go. He not­ed it was im­por­tant for stu­dents to know about di­et and its im­pact on health. Hinds said they had part­nered with par­ent/teacher as­so­ci­a­tions to change chil­dren's en­vi­ron­ment, in­clud­ing change in items sold at schools' cafe­te­rias.