Barnet Active Creative Engaging holidays - HOLIDAYS www.barnetyouth.uk Summer 2021 What’s on – Timetable Find out what’s on. PAGE 3 Healthy Eating Eating the rainbow and staying hydrated PAGE 4 Welcome to Summer Healthy Eating HOLIDAYS Choosing the right foods – food swaps PAGE 5 The school holidays are a time for children and young people to relax and have fun. Healthy Eating We believe that every family across Barnet Positive feedback from Easter Love food, hate waste PAGE 6 deserves a healthy and fulfilling holiday. Barnet Active, Creative and Engaging holidays Healthy Eating (BACE) was recently named by Barnet’s young Picnic time recipe ideas PAGE 7 people and highlights exactly what our holiday programme is all about! Healthy Eating Summer BBQ recipes PAGE 8 In our summer edition of the BACE Holidays booklet, you’ll find facts and useful tips for maintaining a healthy diet, information to support your mental wellbeing, fun activities Activity to do at home and links to online resources to learn about Colouring in and share your photos PAGE 9 healthy living. Get Active Get involved! After attending our Easter BACE Holiday Camps programme, Time to get moving PAGE 10 Sign up to one of our BACE Holiday Camps or one of parents have shared their feedback and thoughts: our enriching activity such as dance, circus skills, art, “All sessions were done very professionally so we really haven’t Get Active baking and much more by registering on our website got a favourite one. Face-to-face sessions were excellent” Time for green fingers PAGE 11 www.barnetyouth.uk/BACEHolidays. BACE Holiday Camps are for all children aged 5-16 who are in receipt of free “Staff were very welcoming and helpful, and my son felt Get Active school meals. included and was encouraged to participate - he loved it” The best walks of Barnet PAGE 12 “Has made my son’s experience better with outdoor How to sign up: activities and mixing with other kids” Wellbeing, Welfare and Support Step 1: Go to www.barnetyouth.uk “Thank you so much for giving my child the Food banks directory PAGE 13 Step 2: Go to Book Now opportunity to do things she loves that as parents Step 3: Select project – BACE Holidays, Term Time, we can never afford” Wellbeing, Welfare and Support DofE or Holiday Activities “Thank you very much for organising all Child and adolescent mental health PAGE 14 Step 4: Select choose activity or camp and enrol by these activities. They really helped out creating a parent profile and adding your child. during these difficult times and gave Wellbeing, Welfare and Support Step 5: Wait for the confirmation email my children a chance to be active and Health and support PAGE 15 Step 6: Attend and have fun! creative with peers” Barnet Libraries Summer Reading Challenge 2021 PAGE 16 What’s on – Timetable What’s on offer… Join Chickenshed this summer Over the summer holidays we have four weeks of jam-packed for a Festival of Fun fun, with a variety of activities for children and young people Big Healthy Day Out Saturday 31st July – to enjoy from 10am-2pm each day.* (for BACE Holidays) Sunday 8th August Attend one of our BACE Holidays Camps where children and young people can Join the Chickenshed Tales Team on Friday Nine exciting days of happiness, laughter and take part in Multisport, Arts & Crafts, Performing Arts, Nutritional Activities and 6th August 2021 for a day filled with fun, celebration for all children aged 0-11yrs. much more! Each camp will have a team of dedicated activity workers which healthy activities including arts and crafts Events include performances of Keilly Swift’s will bring fun, games and expertise, supporting your child to try something and performances! best-selling children’s books The Tigon and new, make new friends and learn all about being healthy! This is perfect for children aged 5-11yrs and the Liger and How to Make A Better World. their parents/carers. • Planet Play baby sensory shows Dates: Time: 3pm – 5pm Week 1 - 26th July – 30th July • Tales Big Day Out Festival Day Week 2 – 2nd Aug – 6th Aug Location: Chickenshed • Special events showcasing books, health Week 3 – 9th Aug – 13th Aug Cost: FREE and well-being and a celebration of Week 4 – 16th – 20th Aug Tickets Available: 200 (Please note x1 child National Play Day. and x1 adult per booking*) Locations across the borough: Canada Villa Young People Centre, NW7 2BU East Barnet School, EN4 8PU And there’s more… so please Dollis Junior Schools, NW7 2BU come and join us for a summer Church Hill School, EN4 8NN festival extravaganza at Colindale School, NW9 6DT Chickenshed. Barnet Youth has Coppetts Wood, N10 1JS a number of FREE tickets for Fairways School, NW7 3HS children and young people. Finchley Youth Centre, N2 9ED For more information visit Greentops Children’s Centre, www.barnetyouth.uk Manorside Primary, N3 2AB Tudor School, N3 2AG And many more! *Please note times and dates at each location may vary. Page 3 PAGE 3 Eating the rainbow Healthy Eating and staying hydrated A balanced diet should be colourful. Fruits and vegetables are an Healthy hydration important part of a healthy diet and make plates bright and full of Water and lower-fat milks are always the best choices for drinks for colour. Fruit and vegetables are also a great source of vitamins, kids. Water contains no sugar and milk contains calcium for strong minerals and fibre. bodies as part of a balanced diet. See if you can eat a rainbow of fruit and vegetables during the week and challenge yourself to try fruit and vegetables of different colours. Here are some ideas to try: Some tips for healthy hydration: COLOUR FRUITS AND VEGETABLES • Make healthy swaps – Swap sugary drinks like fizzy drinks, energy drinks and juice drinks for lower-fat milks, water, sugar-free or no added-sugar drinks. Red Cherries, cranberries, radishes, red apples, red grapes, red peppers, tomatoes, watermelon. • Brighten up water - Make water an exciting alternative by adding a pop of colour. Add fruits like frozen berries, kiwi and apple to make the water taste and look interesting. Orange Cantaloupe melon, mangoes, nectarines, orange peppers, pumpkin, sweet potatoes. • Try a water app – Download a water tracker app on your phone and let your child mark off the glasses of water they drink. Yellow Butternut squash, honeydew melon, lemons, papaya, • Fruit and Veg – You don’t need to worry about the sugar in peaches, persimmons, swede, yellow peppers. whole fruits and vegetables because this isn’t added sugar. Plus they contain vitamins and minerals, are a great source Green Apples, asparagus, avocados, celery, courgettes, of fibre, and count towards your 5 A Day. cucumbers, green grapes, leeks, lettuce, limes, • Juice and smoothies – Fruit and vegetable juice and smoothies mange tout, sugar snap peas. are sugary. They still count towards your 5 A Day, but remember Blue/Purple Aubergines, blackberries, blackcurrants, purple to limit the amount to no more than 150ml a day – grapes, red cabbage. and keep to mealtimes as they can cause tooth decay. White Bananas, celeriac, garlic, Jerusalem artichokes, Source: mushrooms, onions, turnips, white peaches. Change4Life. More information at www.nhs.uk/change4life/food-facts/sugar Page 4 Page 4 Choosing the right foods – food swaps Healthy Eating Knowing what is in the food we buy is an important step to making healthier choices. Swap from: Swap to: Understanding food labels can help us shop for food more wisely. Traffic light labels- red amber and green can be found on the front of food packaging. These show how much sugar, saturated fat and salt are inside what we’re buying. When it comes to Snack swaps reading food labels and the traffic light signs, a good rule of thumb is to go for more greens and ambers and cut down on reds. chocolate bars a slice of malt loaf biscuits a scotch pancake doughnuts a crumpet, bread or toast muffins crackers and lower-fat cheese other sugary snacks plain rice cakes fresh or tinned fruit salad chopped veg and lower-fat hummus a lower-fat, lower-sugar yoghurt sugar-free jelly Pudding swaps cake bars sugar-free jelly chocolate pudding pots lower-sugar yoghurt doughnuts fresh or tinned fruit (in juice) Watch and learn: muffins lower-sugar rice pudding food labels video lower-sugar custard at www.nhs.uk/change4life/food-facts/ food-labels Drink swaps Get the Change4 Life Food Scanner app cola water Brings food labels to life and find out juice drinks lower-fat milks what’s really inside your food and drink milkshakes sugar-free drinks Get on App store and Google play-links fizzy drinks no added sugar drinks Page 5 Love food, hate waste Healthy Eating Your food isn’t rubbish and yet in the UK, households waste Some easy ways of using leftovers: 6.5 million tonnes of it every year, 4.5 million of which is edible – Tips Try something new: Take a look at the leftover recipes and how to become a food that’s enough to fill 38 million wheelie bins. Saving food means waste hero by visiting www.lovefoodhatewaste.com. Tip: type in two or three of your you will save money, families can save around £60 per month on leftover foods in the search bar to find relevant recipes to make. reducing food waste. Reducing food waste is also good for the planet by reducing global warning! Food left over: why not pop them in a container or sealed bag, write the date and what the food is on a label and place it in your freezer.