Anaheim Union High School District and the city of Anaheim are pairing up to participate in the Governors’ Challenge and the Orange County Fitness Challenge. This challenge will determine which county, city, district, and school can get the most activity days logged in before May 31, 2010. To count as an activity day, one must do 30 minutes or more of any kind of activity (walking, bowling, tennis, golf, jump roping, etc,). To complete the challenge successfully, you must log in 12 days within a 28 day period. However, you can log in more than 12 days and even begin another challenge after completing the first 28 days. Anyone can participate. Attached are the directions on how anyone who is not a student can sign up and donate their activity days to a school in the Anaheim Union High School District. The more activity days the school, the district, and the city accumulate count towards great prizes for our students and schools. It’s all part of “Get Active for our Anaheim Schools.” One school in Anaheim may qualify for a $100,000 fitness center and other schools may qualify for checks of $6,000 that can help purchase fitness equipment to keep our students’ active.

If you are a physical education teacher at one of the junior high schools, your student rosters have already been downloaded to the Governor’s Council for you. Just create an account and sign on. You can begin your class challenges whenever you want. If you begin sooner, you can get in two challenges, increasing the chances of your school winning money or a fitness center. You can enter your students’ active days all at one time. It does not have to be done daily. I recommend once a week. Simply ask your students how many days they were active in the past week and record that number on your roster (walking to and from school and classes counts as activity time). Then when you go on the website, find the appropriate roster for that class and enter the number next to the student name. You are entering the number of active days, not time or activity. If most of your students have the same number of days, you can enter that number at the top and the program will fill in that number for all your students and then you can adjust those who are different.

Student rosters have already been downloaded, but to win, all the faculty and staff members at each school site and the district office need to participate too. Additionally, please encourage your students’ families, your families, your friends and local businesses to sign up too and donate their activity days to a school in the Anaheim Union High School District. It’s easy and for many it’s just being accountable and tracking what you already do. Once you begin your challenge, you don’t have to log on daily, you can enter your days all at once or once a week, as long as you complete a minimum of 12 days in the 28 day period (and enter before the 28 days are up). All entries must be completed by May 31, 2010.

Thank you for your time and effort to make this venture a success. To win, this will need to be a true community effort and I thank you for your participation.