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The School Health Program (PSE), created in 2007, seeks to ensure comprehensive health care for students through prevention, promotion and health care activities. Since 2017, the Promotion of Healthy Eating (PAS) and prevention of childhood obesity have been placed as central themes for the development of food and nutrition actions. Thus, this study sought to describe an experience in the development of Food and Nutrition Surveillance (FNS) and Food and Nutrition Education (FNE) actions within the scope of the PSE. This is an experience report, based on community intervention, which describes the work carried out in a curricular component offered to students of the Nutrition Course at a public Higher Education Institution, located in a municipality in the Brazilian Northeast. The action took place in a public school linked to the municipal network in September 2023. Three activities were developed: 1) One of FNS, carried out with the assessment of the nutritional status of the children, and for this, anthropometric indicators were used; 2) An FNE activity, where the playful option was chosen, with the telling of the story of the book entitled “The girl who didn't like fruit”, using puppet theater; 3) Another FNE activity involved the implementation of a dynamic/guessing game entitled “Getting to know the flavors of fruits”, based on fruit tasting. Therefore, the implementation of this activity was essential to show that the PSE can be an important space for discussing food and nutrition issues in the school environment.
