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Kids to get iPods and Xbox's for eating well (Xbox)
Posted: Fri May 20, 2005 12:19 pm
by newstech
How can I get into one of these schools?
By Tom Orry
Glasgow pupils are to be given iPods and Xbox consoles in return for eating better at schools.
Pupils in Glasgow schools are to be rewarded for eating healthy food. Glasgow city council has introduced a points system in all of the city's 29 primary schools. The scheme gives each pupil a swipe card which they use to record all the points they earn.
By building up points pupils can get iPods, Xbox consoles and cinema tickets. The top prize of an iPod requires a pupil to eat 100 of the healthiest 'combination meals'. Since the project stated the number of pupils who order unhealthy food, such as chips, has halfed.
The council has spent �15,000 on a website for the healthy eating scheme and will spend another �40,000 on prizes in the next year. So, it seems that kids will eat vegetables if there is an Xbox in it for them.
http://www.pro-g.co.uk/news/nid/802/
Posted: Sat Jul 16, 2005 3:48 pm
by Antonik
I wouldn't mind an IPOD, but I still wouldn't buy my food in a school.
Re: Kids to get iPods and Xbox's for eating well (Xbox)
Posted: Sat Jul 16, 2005 4:29 pm
by Zelig
newstech wrote:How can I get into one of these schools?
Get someone with lots of money to sponsor your school. ;)
For me at least, eating healthily is its own reward.
Posted: Sun Sep 11, 2005 12:42 pm
by Bit_Cloud
I wish my school did that, that way in Nov. we might get an Xbox 360, jsut for eating my veggies!
Posted: Sun Sep 11, 2005 3:13 pm
by -mogwai
i'm thinking of selling my ipod mini to help finance a black ipod nano (aka sexiness)
Re: Kids to get iPods and Xbox's for eating well (Xbox)
Posted: Mon Oct 03, 2005 1:50 pm
by k2ray
newstech wrote:How can I get into one of these schools?
By Tom Orry
Glasgow pupils are to be given iPods and Xbox consoles in return for eating better at schools.
Pupils in Glasgow schools are to be rewarded for eating healthy food. Glasgow city council has introduced a points system in all of the city's 29 primary schools. The scheme gives each pupil a swipe card which they use to record all the points they earn.
By building up points pupils can get iPods, Xbox consoles and cinema tickets. The top prize of an iPod requires a pupil to eat 100 of the healthiest 'combination meals'. Since the project stated the number of pupils who order unhealthy food, such as chips, has halfed.
The council has spent �15,000 on a website for the healthy eating scheme and will spend another �40,000 on prizes in the next year. So, it seems that kids will eat vegetables if there is an Xbox in it for them.
http://www.pro-g.co.uk/news/nid/802/
Scotland has it good. I also heard that there are no college fees compared to their neighbours in the South (England).