JAMIE Oliver may be working on school meals but Hereford schools are now also getting their fitness improved.
Halo Leisure has joined forces with the Fitness Industry Association (FIA) to run a new community programme which allows leisure centres to "adopt a school".
Primary school children aged 10 and 11 are being targeted and the scheme aims to achieve a sustained increase in activity and fitness for them all.
Sutton Primary, Staunton-on-Wye Primary, Burley Gate Primary and Colwall Primary schools are all taking part and they will receive visits from a trained instructor and sessions at their local leisure centre.
During the project, which runs until December, parents will be invited to attend the sessions to gain training in the fitness regimes so that the activities can be continued after the project is over.
Vicky Hancock, headteacher of Shobdon Primary School, which took part in the pilot, said: "The sessions helped to make the connection between activity and a healthy lifestyle."
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