Port Jervis District News: ASK Elementary School wins Radio Disney Dance Party

ASK students win Radio Disney Dance Party

POSTED: MARCH 15, 2012
Radio Disney knows how to throw a party!! The crew from the number one kids’ radio network brought its high energy road show to Port Jervis March 13 to host a dance party for the students and staff at Anna S. Kuhl Elementary School. Kids were all smiles as they sang songs, danced to their favorite tunes and competed in contests ranging from the hula hoop challenge to the athletic express. View slide show of Dance Party

The school won the Radio Disney dance party by having one of the highest participation rates in the New York State Empire Blue Cross and Radio Disney Get Active, Get Fit Challenge! Disney Radio Program Manager Leslie Finn announced at the party that ASK Elementary School was one of the state’s top five schools. In addition to the dance party, ASK students also won a deluxe activity kit, which included $500 worth of playground equipment.

This marks the second year Empire BlueCross and Radio Disney have partnered together to bring the Get Active, Get Fit School Challenge to schools throughout the state. Approximately 13,000 elementary school children accepted the challenge. The goal was to motivate kids – and their families - to become physically fit by engaging in fun activities for at least 20 minutes every day – or as often as possible. This could include anything that got students “up and moving” at home or at school – like playing soccer, dancing, walking the dog or jumping rope.

In order to successfully complete the challenge, students had to be active for a minimum of 40 of the 55 days in the program, which ran from October 3 through November 26, 2011. The students’ progress was tracked on charts provided to the participating schools.

Photo of PE teacher Nicole Beam and a group of ASK students posing with the Disney Radio crew. At ASK Elementary School, 941 students – 42 percent of the school – met the Empire BlueCross and Radio Disney fitness challenge. The high rate of participation was among the highest in the state, qualifying them to win the dance party. “Everyone worked really hard to show that ASK is a healthy and active school,” said physical education teacher and event organizer Nicole Beam.
The Get Active, Get Fit Challenge is one of many fun health/ fitness programs that the school’s Fits Kids Committee involves students in every year at ASK Elementary School. Other programs have included a Halloween Pedometer Challenge, fruit smoothie taste tests and the Mileage Club, a fitness incentive program designed to promote fitness, reduce playground hassles and fight childhood obesity.

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