St. Mary School is part of the Healthy Schools, Healthy Kids program. The program focuses on healthy lifestyles and environments surrounding the four risk factors for heart disease: physical activity, healthy eating, tobacco use prevention and stress.

Healthy children have better attendance, increase self-esteem and improved relationships with parents, peers and teachers!

The mission of the HSHK program is to being children, parents, educators and community organizations together to support schools in their efforts to create a healthy environment for learning, playing and working.

For more information on the Sudbury District Health Unit, please visit http://www.sdhu.com/.