As the nation went in to lockdown and college closed, we recognised the health and wellbeing of our students was just as important as making sure their learning continued online.
A trust wide initiative called GORSE Get Healthy is now being introduced at Elliott Hudson College to help promote the importance of leading a healthy, active lifestyle and to build students’ knowledge to help them create healthy habits for life. Over the coming weeks and months, GORSE Gets Healthy will be introducing various activities to help our students make simple daily changes.
A critical part of leading a healthy lifestyle is to engage with physical activity every day. It is recommended that in order to maintain a basic level of health, children young people aged between 5 – 18 should exercise at least 60 minutes a day. Alarmingly, this is a target which many of our students are failing to meet. This could be having a detrimental effect on their physical health and wellbeing. The current climate has brought the importance of good health and wellbeing to the forefront of our minds, so what better time to roll out GORSE Gets Healthy to our students at Elliott Hudson College.
As part of the GORSE Gets Healthy initiative arriving at Elliott Hudson we will be introducing online fitness sessions via Microsoft Teams. The online sessions that will take place on Monday and Tuesday evenings, with the aim of increasing engagement with physical activity. A number of students have also volunteered to be GORSE Gets Healthy Ambassadors, these students will be regularly sharing advice and tips on health, wellbeing and fitness via the GORSE Gets Healthy social channels.
We’d like to thank the following GORSE Gets Healthy Student Ambassadors for taking part and helping inspire and motivate their fellow students Alex Williams, Kathleen Clemente, Emma Fullerton, Vyshnavi Rao, Matthew Dawson and Holly Anderson.
We are also pleased that students from our sister college Elliott Hudson Boston Spa are also working closely with our students and the initiative as ambassadors: Emelia Thomson, Alfred Allanach and Harry Botterill,
Miss Rhodes is Partnership Director of Sport, Physical Education and Health and The Gorse Academies Trust and heads up GORSE Gets Healthy:
“By tackling issues around health together, it is our hope that we begin to see a noticeable change in health and fitness across the college and the wider community of Leeds. The changes we all make now, will have a direct impact on the academic and sporting success of our young people and will see them aspire to greater things than they ever thought possible.”