CATCH
What is CATCH?
What is CATCH? ![]()
What is CATCH?
This year, our school has joined thousands of other schools across the country as a CATCH school. CATCH schools are committed to developing the Whole Child — mind, heart, and body — by helping kids get more physical activity, eat more nutritious foods, and develop social and emotional competencies to become their best selves.
CATCH (Coordinated Approach To Child Health) is a TEA approved Coordinated School Health Program designed to promote physical activity, healthy food choices, and prevent tobacco use in school-aged children. By teaching children that eating healthy and being physically active every day can be fun, CATCH has proved that establishing healthy habits in childhood can promote behavior changes that carry into adulthood.
GO, SLOW, WHOA
GO, SLOW, WHOA![]()
GO, SLOW, WHOA
Our school will encourage students to eat healthy and nutritious foods during the school day. A healthy diet consists of more GO foods than SLOW foods, and more SLOW foods than WHOA foods.
GO foods include mostly fruits, vegetables, whole grains, lean meats, and lower-fat dairy products. They are lowest in unhealthy fats, added sugars, and are the least processed.
SLOW foods are healthier than WHOA foods, but not as healthy as GO foods.
WHOA foods are highest in unhealthy fats, added sugars, and/or sodium, and are ultra-processed.
The foods listed are from the GO-SLOW-WHOA Food List.
