Kategoria: Mind your Food

My health in my hands

3rd Grade students from Italy reflected on what makes them feel good and reduces stress, they give a thought to the importance of physical activity but also consider how they manage time and focus to achieve objectives. Here is a padlet with their short oral presentations on healthy living.

https://padlet.com/mary14ap/ddui17o1b4xqq2dy

The objectives of the activity:

  • recognize physical activity as a healthy behavior
  • encouraging healthy nutrition
  • lunderstanding that lifelong health and wellbeing begins with promoting healthy behaviours early in life 
  • improving writing and speaking in foreign language competences

A visit to International Nanotechnology Laboratory

One of the objectives of the project was spreading awareness about the impact of the proper diet on people’s health. In order to learn more about research, during mobility C3, hosted by Agrupamento de Escolas de Amares in Portugal, students visited INL (,) a highly considered laboratory all over Europe because of its goal in the research and technology activities specially focused
on six clusters: Health, Food, Energy, Environment, ICT and Future Emerging Technologies, which complement each other, and provide a base for interdisciplinary interactions among researchers.
The full-fledged nanotechnology laboratory enables leading research of the highest international standard.
The more exploited cluster was the food one and it was explained to students how to increase and protect vitamins and minerals in comestibles. Therefore, students could see how nanotechnology can help in creating Nano capsules to preserve vitamins to be integrated in aliments/ food/ people’s diet.

Fruit/Sport/Art

How to combine sport activities with healthy food and art? Yes, you can – create photos integrating pieces of fruit or vegetables in a picture presenting a sport discipline. To perform this activity we designed an inspirational presentation – made of pictures published to web. Having watched a video children chose fruit which seemed inspirational for them and created their own artful pictures. All the pictures (well, almost all…) were arranged in a professional way in a virtual gallery.

The objectives of the activity:

  • developing creativity and imagination
  • demonstrating innovation in concept
  • improve the children’s ability to control materials and techniques
  • cultivating an enjoyment and appreciation of the visual arts
  • promoting healthy lifestyle

The link to the virtual gallery:

https://www.artsteps.com/view/602d680bfc99b16fd6daf269?currentUser

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School festival

To disseminate and promote the products and an idea of the project we established an exhibition and a ‚healthy lifestyle’ stall at the school festival – an annual event, during which pupils, students from all grades, teachers, parents and inhabitants of the neighbourhood can visit the school and de-stress by participating in activities of different themes. Many of the products, such as posters, bookmarks, games and photos were displayed. Two experts in healthy everyday living, Anna Walentukiewicz, from University of Sport Education and Magdalena Dworniczak, running FitKid foundation, provided healthy-lifestyle counselling and advised attenders on how to change their habits and avoid risk factors.

The objectives of the event:

  • encouraging people to have healthy lifestyles
  •  recognizing that modifiable lifestyle factors
  • making healthier diet choices,
  • realizing an importance of getting regular exercise,
  • learning how to manage stress and organize calming environment at home
  • learning how to adopt physical activity as a lifestyle


World Health Day 2022

It is now 6 years since we started celebrating the World Health Day making it a School Health Week, because for a few days we try to draw attention of to whole school community to health issues. During the week various activities are performed, all of them aimed at:

  • promoting health
  • developing students’ ability to recognize disturbing symptoms
  • encouraging students to adopt regular sport activities
  • emphasizing on good eating habits 
  • sensitizing students on realizing the connection between physical and mental health
  • spreading awareness of the role of rest and relax in everybody’s life

To achieve these objectives we organized:

  • a lecture about functioning of the brain, delivered by a psychologist Joanna Klimaszewska
  • a lecture about nutrients, delivered by a dietetician, Aneta Kałużna
  • how ADHD brains function – a lecture delivered by a psychologist, Martyna Domańska
  • how to care for one’s body when you grow up, a lecture delivered by Anna Walentukiewicz 
  • first aid workshops delivered by Dorota Rycharska
  • grab a snack – cookery workshops
  • how to sleep well – workshops conducted by a psychologist Marcin Ciepliński
  • active dancing breaks
  • contests, tournaments, games, escape rooms, presentations.

Healthy habits – start from now!

Instilling a routine of regular sport activities, drinking the right amount of water, having regular mealtimes, now avoiding grains and vegetables in childhood are likely to make it more likely that kids will continue these good habit when they are older. The objectives of a series of English classes about health were as follows:

  • recognizing diseases, labelling body parts, ability to speak about feeling not well
  • establishing the rules for making balanced meals
  • recognizing the impact of physical activities and playing with friends on our well-being
  • explaining connections between habits and emotions
  • establishing daily routines
  • making pupils aware of the importance of sleeping well

The pupils did role playing, solved rebus puzzles, they made pictures of their lists of daily routines, they answered surveys and, basically, had fun.

Nutritional steps guide

To promote understanding what the food consists of we developed the guide with recipes for healthy snacks, leaflets with information about different diets, students also built 3D molecules in order to present the nutrients found in Mediterranean diet foods and they made posters about the basic elements found in food. All the recipes, step by step instructions, daily menus and the information about lunches were collected in one common publication. https://www.canva.com/design/DAFKsMATQ0w/YLSr2AU5U9O7jvS6gzFNow/view?utm_content=DAFKsMATQ0w&utm_campaign=designshare&utm_medium=link&utm_source=publishsharelink

Polish students also collected recipes for salads and smoothies on one padlet https://padlet.com/tambelli_sylwia/l27de5ffs3k7cwr3

Welcome to Alquerias!

Finally, after two years we could meet again. The schedule of short terms exchanges of groups of pupils was turned upside down though, because we restarted the project from the last planned mobility C8 in Alquerias. Apart from that, everything went according to the plan. The superior topic of the mobility was food and influence of a right diet on our functioning, our lifestyle and achieving life goals. The activities which the students took part in involved:

  • presentations of the schools
  • introduction games
  • cooking workshops
  • sports routine
  • visit to a local manufacturer of citrus fruits
  • studying healthy dietary habits and making presentations about common diets
  • a visit to open-air marches and talking about food typical in the area
  • creating a Kahoot game

Apart from the activities planned in the frame of the project’s objectives the students visited also the most famous places in the area to learn about Spanish culture and history and their paid a visit in the town mayor office. They did enjoy their stay in Murcia and Alquerias.

Choose the diet which is right for you

A healthy diet can help you maintain a proper body weight, reduce your risk of certain diseases and improve your quality of life. However, there is no universal diet, common, easy to follow and recommendable for everyone, regardless of their place of living, gender, daily activity and likings. We have to know the rationale of each diet, their pros and cons and it is important to choose a diet plan that fits our goals and lifestyles. During the mobility in Alquerias, in Spain, the students developed the rules for some, most popular diets. They discussed their does and don’ts, as well as benefits and risks and designed leaflets.

Jar salads

The idea seems simple. Take a jar and start composing layers. There are some reasonable rules to follow, though. Our students learned during the workshops how to make healthy and colourful salads in the jar. They started from brainstorming for products representing different food groups, such as grains, diary, meat, fruit, vegetables and fat. Afterwards, after watching some recipes they managed to establish a pattern for tasty, not soggy jar salad. The rules they set up are the following: http://Healthy salads – presentation

  • the home made dressing goes to the bottom
  • the heaviest products, containing proteins, such as meat or legumes over the dressing
  • lighter bits, such as chopped veggies,
  • some seeds or nuts as they contain vitamins and proteins
  • light green leaves, like rocket, spinach, lettuce.

Next the students designed their own salads, wrote the recipes and they drew them or created recipes using technological tools.