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A well-being survey of Hawke’s Bay schools has found almost a third of low decile primary schools pupils are hungry because there was not enough food at home.
The Nourishing Hawke’s Bay: He wairua tō te kai study was led by professors David Tipene-Leach from the Eastern Institute of Technology and Boyd Swinburn from the University of Auckland.
Researchers surveyed almost 2300 year 5 and 9 students in 43 schools about their wellbeing, physical activity, sleep, screen use, food behaviours, and measuring body size.
Initial findings indicated one in three secondary school students in Hawke’s Bay don’t eat breakfast, only one in ten eat the recommended 3+ vegetables a day, one in five spend more than five hours of their leisure time on screens, and just over half are a healthy weight.
Project manager Pippa McKelvie-Sebileau says the data is helping drive the design of food systems for the Ka Ora, Ka Ako school lunches programme and or other health initiatives.
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