Fire Up Your Feet Brings Physical Activity to Elementary Students in Bloomington,MN

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This Fall 2013 volume of Our Children, a magazine put out by The National PTA, features important stories related to student health. In this issue parents, teachers and educators can read about the Fire Up Your Feet campaign, what schools are doing to promote Healthy Lifestyles month,  what PTAs can do to keep recess in schools, and also about the Fuel Up to Play 60 initiative.

One story featured in this magazine, Walk This Way,  speaks of the Fire Up Your Feet campaign and how a school in Bloomington, MN has enabled and encouraged students to get healthy by walking to school.

Every Fall and Spring semester at Olsen elementary school, Principal Paul Meyer encourages students to participate in Fire Up Your Feet, a national initiative aimed at getting kids to move before, during and after the school day. In October, students at Olsen participated in a walk-a-thon with the support of their principal and PTA. This year, Meyer agreed to spend a day on the roof of the school if students reached their fundraising goal.

Schools that do an exceptional job of bringing activity to students are qualified to receive a $200-$5,000 cash prize through the Fire Up Your Feet campaign. Olsen was one of the schools awarded a cash prize and with the funds they received they were able to install bike racks at the school.

Read the full story in English or Spanish here. Learn more about the Fire Up You Feet initiative from reading this Active Living Research blog post.