This week’s After School Care play-based learning activities have been incorporated around Food Allergy Week.
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A food allergy is an immune system response to a food protein that the body mistakenly believes is harmful which causes the body to release a LOT of chemicals, triggering abnormal bodily reactions in a person’s breathing, gastrointestinal tract, skin or heart.
Food Allergy Week (FAW) aims to raise awareness of food allergy including potentially fatal food allergies. This week we painted one of our ten fingernails to show awareness that one in ten babies are born with a food allergy.
We discussed and brainstormed what food allergies are and what the nine food groups are that cause an incredible 90 per cent of all food allergies. We studied what to look for when somebody has an allergic reaction to a food, as well as the different severities of allergic reactions, including mild or anaphylactic, and why is it vital to know which of your classmates have food allergies.
The children never fail to surprise me with everything they pick up on, along with their genuine empathy and care for another child’s wellbeing.
Many of the students were able to remember the children with an allergy in the service and that one child also requires an epi-pen and the ambulance to be called right away if he gets stung by a bee!
Coming to the end of the week, the children had two final challenges to undertake; one was to identify the foods in our kitchen that contain one of the nine most common triggers of a food allergy, and the second was to adopt an allergy and create their own lunch box menu.
Many of the kids found a way around having to use their own research and asked a friend with an allergy what they can’t eat in the kitchen, and what they have in their lunchbox every day!
Over the past eight months, we have been continuously working hard to transform our club into a more visually appealing and welcoming space for all members of the community.
We have brightening the walls with a coat of paint, replacing our wooden doors with fresh glass doors and, of course, our MASSIVE expansion and refurbishment of our KidzCare area upstairs with new flooring, a wall knocked out and brand new equipment and furniture for the kids.
When looking for out of school hour’s care for your child, please keep us in mind and contact us at the club!
For more information call PCYC on 6862 3825 or email parkescc@pcycnsw.org.au
