The second-graders at Rolesville Elementary School will be learning about heart health and fitness as a part of RAH* for Rolesville! (Really Awesome Health) program. The health educators from the Alice Poe Center for Health Education will be introducing this vital organ to them. The 2nd grade program includes what the heart does, the size and location. The program stresses how to take care of it through eating heart healthy foods and fitness. Students will also learn about heart rate and get a chance to check their own heart rate using stethoscopes.

The sessions are scheduled for 45 minutes and will take place on March 23 and 24 from 9:30 a.m. – 1:15 p.m. and 11:30 a.m. – 1:15 p.m.

Raleigh Community Hospital, the Alice Aycock Poe Center for Health Education and Rolesville Elementary School have teamed-up for year five of the “RAH for Rolesville” project. The program is a yearlong and is designed to provide students, staff, and parents with excellent health education. The goal of this program is to help prevent illness and develop life-long health habits. The project places professionally trained health educators in the classroom for hands-on lessons. Primary funding for this project is provided by Raleigh Community Hospital.

Raleigh Community Hospital is a 186-bed acute-care facility located one block north of the beltline on Wake Forest Road in North Raleigh. Raleigh Community Hospital is part of the Duke University Health System. A full-service acute care hospital, RCH’s range of services includes a 24-hour Emergency Department, Intensive and Critical Care, Child Birth Center, Rehabilitation, Newborn Hearing Screening, Diabetes Treatment Center, Hematology/Oncology, Radiation/Oncology and community education.