Volunteers Give a Recess Refresh to Two FWISD Elementary Schools
Published June 13, 2022
When students return to Versia Williams Elementary and M.H. Moore Elementary in the fall, they will find sidewalk games like hopscotch, chess, tic-tac-toe, basketball, and more. Volunteers braved the morning heat and humidity June 9 to provide a recess refresh to paved areas by the playgrounds.
The Fort Worth ISD’s Operations Department furnished the paint and helped outline areas that needed attention. Volunteers from Blue Zones Project Fort Worth and Texas Health, including Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital Fort Worth President Joseph DeLeon, transformed the play areas with colorful graphics.
Versia Williams and M.H. Moore are Blue Zones Project Approved Schools with special programs and initiatives that focus on helping students make healthy life choices.
Stephanie Jackson, Director of Strategic Partnerships for Blue Zones Project Fort Worth, said the recess refresh had been planned for a while. “When we had the opportunity to have Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital ask for a volunteer day with us, we reached out to these campuses to make it happen.”
M.H. Moore Assistant Principal Kay Myers appreciated the volunteer effort to freshen up the outdoor area.
“Blue Zones Project Fort Worth continues to encourage health and wellness for the next generation. The students of M.H. Moore are blessed to have Blue Zones Project Fort Worth help establish fresh color and life into the place they learn and play. I love how colorful it turned out.”
Blue Zones Project® is a community-led well-being improvement initiative that works in select cities across the nation. Partnering with municipal leaders, neighborhoods, employers, schools, restaurants, grocery stores, and faith-based organizations, Blue Zones Project helps optimize a sense of purpose and ease stress through principles patterned after lifestyles in Blue Zones® areas—pockets of the world where people are most likely to reach age 100 and beyond.
Fort Worth ISD is the largest school district in the country to be a Blue Zones Project Approved™ worksite.