Clayton Ridge Community Schools

Raising Healthy Kids

Clayton Ridge is a Food & Fitness School.  This page highlights some of their projects and activities.

Students participate in Fall Fitness Day

(October 7, 2011) Fall Fitness Day is a one-day event sponsored by Live Healthy Iowa and is endorsed by the Iowa Governor's Council on Physical Fitness and Nutrition.  The purpose of Fall Fitness Day is to create awareness, emphasize and educate students concerning the numerous benefits of good health and physical fitness.  Youth are encouraged to become healthier by increasing physical activity in a positive, fun way.   Activities at Clayton Ridge Middle School included having students rotate through various physical activity stations such as dodge ball, kickball, blob tag, tug of war, jump rope, hula hoop and more.

Youth Team Hosts Dance-a-thon & Faculty Supper

April 2011 - The Clayton Ridge Middle School Food and Fitness team held a Dance-A-Thon where students signed up in teams and someone from their team had to be on the dance floor dancing throughout the event.

Students also prepared a healthy meal and served it to the faculty during supper break during parent teacher conferences.  It was a great way to get faculty involved in food and fitness.  (Submitted by Renae Kraus)

School Garden Flourishing at Clayton Ridge

July 2010 - A group of Clayton Ridge students together with their teacher, Dana Einck, and school nurse Ranae Kraus, RN, have planted potatoes for the annual Homecoming Day Grill-out.

Think onions, butter, salt and pepper to flavor slices of Yukon Gold and Blue Potatoes. These are two of the varieties now blooming and growing at a first-ever school garden on a G and G Living Centers plot near the corner of Kosciusco and the Great River Road.  (Read more)