Bratt Elementary Wins $1,000 Wellness Challenge For Second Year

November 18, 2016

For the second consecutive year, Bratt Elementary School has been named the winner of Escambia Superintendent Malcolm Thomas’  Choose Wellness Challenge. The school was presented a $1,000 prize at Tuesday’s meeting of the Escambia County School Board.

The challenge was to see which school or major department could achieve the highest level of participation in the challenge by the end of the school year. Participants completed four steps to promote health and wellness, potentially reducing the district’s health care and lost work time costs.

Thomas said he expected the winner to come from a school that was located near the district’s health and wellness center. But he was wrong…again.

“This year’s winner, for the second straight year, is a school that is located the furtherest away,” Thomas said, “which makes it quite evident that mileage and inconvenience is not a factor when it comes to choosing wellness.

The $1,000 prize is expected to be used in some manner to promote wellness among the school’s staff. All of the funds were from private donations; no taxpayer dollars were used.

Ferry Pass Elementary School received a $500 prize as winner of the “Improvement Challenge”.

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