Kategoria: Poland

Vegetables and Fruit – the Nutrition Source

No single fruit or vegetable provides all of the nutrients you need to grow up and prosper, but eating some of them every day you will make sure that you bestow your organism with all the elements you need. Meals rich in fruit and vegetables may reduce the risk of heart attack and digestive problems, they prevent some types of cancer,  have positive effect on your skin and brain functioning. Their low glycemic index keep sugar peaks in check. Older students prepared the e-publication about vitamins and elements, they younger ones took part in various games and plays during which they learned the English names of the seasonal fruit and vegetables. The activities they performed: 

  • Learning the names of the fruit and vegetables, labelling parts of plants, deciding which parts are edible, prioritizing them in terms of vitamin content 
  • Making pictures from fruit and vegetables and preparing healthy snacks
  • Engaging students in breakout room games – reviewing material and problem – solving skills in  groups working together to solve a series of challenges in order to find subsequent clues before the time limit expires. They are an engaging activity to review content as well as foster collaboration and problem-solving skills.
  • Making laparellos and lapbooks – the folders in which students in a creative way presented food pyramids, their diet requirements, fruit and vegetables and healthy tips customized to emphasize the subject of the lapbbook. All the resources were collected and presented on the exhibition held in the school hall, as well as other games made by students, such as memory, decide wheels etc. https://animoto.com/play/rjmd3A1goO0Z6P5GlPGVOw

Virtual mobility

After agreeing on the date and length of the meeting to suit each of the partner schools, we decided to organize a video conference. Each school gathered a team of 8 – 12 students eager to meet their friends from other countries. Google meet platform was used to get in touch before and set up all the details and for the meeting itself, taking place on 20thof May 2021. The schedule of the video conference looked as follows: 

Schedule of activities 

  • Introducing teams
  • Taking group photos by the padlet 
  • Healthy habits – brainstorming 
  • What do you know about the country the wheel decide picked for you 
  • Name 5 – a team contest 
  • What have you got for breakfast? Interviewing partners.
  • Kahoot – a general knowledge quiz (each country prepared the questions) 
  • Draw your lunch and breakfast using Jamboard 
  • Healthy tips – how important are they for you – discussing ideas and uploading them on Mentimeter 

Unfortunately, due to technical problems and safety regulations at schools we were unable to let our students interview each other as we had planned before. Nevertheless, students could see each other, take part in games prepared together. They could confront their conceptions of healthy lifestyle, find out what they knew about their partner countries, compete in quizzes. We could compare what we conceive of breakfasts and school lunches as all the participants were expected to draw them and label them on the common virtual board. First of all, however, it was a two-hour distraction from the school routine and a chance to ties bonds between the partners. 

Earth Day

What’s the point of taking care of your health if you live in the world on the edge? The last year showed us clearly that our well-being is tightly intertwined with the condition of our planet. We have faced the climate crisis and only changing our attitudes, which requires persistent action on many fronts, can prevent the worst crisis. The number of people, teenagers among them, who consider the environmental issues as stressful and threatening their own survival, is increasing all the time. All the teachers had an opportunity to use resources, such as live talks, presentations, videos, lesson plans or games which our team collected on one common platform. Our activities aimed at raising awareness of human destructive behavior included: 

  • Lessons focused on discussing steps we ourselves can take to protect the Earth resources
  • Discussing ways of implementing changes in our families
  • Brainstorming ideas on how to inspire others 
  • Writing down commitments 
  • Contests of knowledge
  • Calculating our carbon prints
  • Making recycled toys 
  • Games, quizzes, making posters 

‘Every one of us needs a healthy Earth to support our jobs, livelihoods, health & survival, and happiness. A healthy planet is not an option — it is a necessity’ (by EARTHDAY.ORG) https://view.genial.ly/607bfa2d33338f0d2474e48a/presentation-earth-day-4-5 https://view.genial.ly/607b28786dd96a0d4b4b5596/presentation-earth-day-6

You were born to be a player

A Frog’s guide to mindfulness

For people who practice sport on a daily basis, as they do in our school, motivation is the vital element which pushes them forward. It is a key factor which helps them to fulfill their potential. This time we invited a psychologist from Gdansk Universityof Physical Education and Sport, Dominika Wilczyńska, who conducted a lecture for parents of young sportsmen to help them understand the complexity of motivational techniques.

Parents were told how to help their children:

  • Practice mindfulness 
  • Manage psychological pressure
  • Set achievable long-term goals 
  • Find a sense in repeating mundane drills
  • Overcome feelings of incompetence 
  • Come to terms with the failure 
  • Find and establish relation between their behavior and expected outcome 
  • Define challenges which will stretch them a little bit further than they have been stretched previously. 

All the parents taking part in the workshops found the tips useful and convenient. They asked many practical questions about positive self-talk, the role of extrinsic prize in a process of shaping motivation and specific problems such asinjury, non-selection or amotivation. 

Healthy life education

The main objective of healthy life education developed in our school is promoting the benefits of healthy lifestyle, dangers of obesity, the importance of physical activities and taking responsibility for your decisions. We try to implement healthy rules since the earliest levels of education and we make our students take part in various cross- curricular activities in a series of nutrition and healthy lifestyle education classes presented to children from grade 3 to 7. We focus mainly on benefits of a balanced diet, the importance of staying outdoor and being active, appreciating friendship and being optimistic. All the classes included: 

  • Lots of interaction 
  • Discussing does and don’ts of routine activities 
  • Online games, quizzes, board games,  
  • Creating weekly menus 
  • Presenting different diets, like vegetarian, vegan or gluten free, demonstrating properties of nutrients, macro and microelements 

All these activities were performed during Biology, English and Physical Education classes.  All the presentations were collected in one publication.  https://app.bookcreator.com/read/SqM2qVEjQ86rFhLLFTxdMg

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1OQKbo350QG5J9iuxebj8JFdJigydNpz3vWlX-tPwFB4/edit?usp=sharing

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/14-uG6EU_MVxDFOygrTprV2eIsGO6gqsRA38yDoWY3lk/edit?usp=sharing

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/12R1ZLXo0-KOJ1Gy-qbLC4ikCrK2qUwbr_x5etn7YTdc/edit?usp=sharing

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/12R1ZLXo0-KOJ1Gy-qbLC4ikCrK2qUwbr_x5etn7YTdc/edit?usp=sharing

World Health Day

Celebrating the World Health Day took us a week, but what can be more important than health this year? We prepared some online and regular activities for the learners at different levels. Some resources, such as presentations, films, interviews or games and lesson plans were posted on the padlet and teachers were encouraged to use all the collected materials. The oldest students attended online lectures on eating disorders, conducted by the last year students of Gdansk Medical University. 

Apart from that students: 

  • compiled their sets of rules how to be healthy and fit
  • took part in inter-class competitions about human anatomy and physiology 
  • created their own health pyramid schemes 
  • played games and tournaments 

The main idea, however, is raising awareness of the health, well -being, importance of the balanced diet and influence physical activities and good relationships have on our happiness and prosperity. 

Healthy food – the younger learners

Food plays a vital part in keeping us fit and it is important to make sure children realize the impact it has got on their condition. They were presented with healthy food ideas, learned how to replace snacks with some healthier ones, how to compose funny face sandwiches, smoothies or salads. They played various vocabulary games, like trimmino, knowledge quizzes, team contests and tried to create their own pyramids according to the rules presented. They learned:

  • what grain foods include
  • what dairy products are
  • what healthy snacks are, like dried fruit, smoothies or fruit lollipops
  • what tastes of these snacks are
  • which of the food products contain protein

Christmas is coming!

It was strange Christmas this year. Socially distanced, with masked Santa, without older relatives, without meeting friends or singing carols together. We did what we could do in these specific circumstances – we designed Christmas cards and shared them together on one board wishing each other health, peace and coming back to reality soon.

The link to the board where all the cards were uploaded: https://padlet.com/tambelli_sylwia/v4hdqb44r5ex0hvd

We organized also A Christmas gift fundraising and prepared presents for families in need living in the neighborhood.

World Mental Health Day

Mental Health Day, celebrated worldwide on 10th of October is an opportunity to raise awareness of mental health issues and advocate against social stigma. During various classes, such as biology, physical education, citizenship and form time students were encouraged to talk about mental health. All the lesson plans and materials for speaking activities were shared on one common padlet. https://padlet.com/tambelli_sylwia/v4hdqb44r5ex0hvd

The objectives of the classes were:

  • making students understand and empathise with anyone burdened with mental health issues
  • realizing the lengths of effects it can have on the people around them
  • portraying various disorders and their symptoms
  • encouraging students to looking for professional help in case of noticing any symptoms of mental disorders
  • promoting activities they are engaging in to keep up good mental health and well-being
  • helping children distinguish between mental health myths and reality

Students were involved in discussions, watching films, lectures with the school psychologist and psychotherapist, they took part in role playing and they learnt some simple mindfulness techniques.

International Day for Tolerance

‚Tolerance – according to UNESCO’s 1995 Declaration of Principles on Tolerance is respect, acceptance and appreciation of the rich diversity of our world’s cultures, our forms of expression and ways of being human.’ In order to promote acceptance and understanding the teachers collected various resources which were used during different classes. The resources included videos, songs, lectures, games, worksheets, discussion prompts and lesson plans.

The link leading to the padlet: https://padlet.com/tambelli_sylwia/j7q6jvz4v8o0893

The objectives of the event:

  • increasing knowledge about values of equity and forms of discrimination
  • promoting inclusion and tolerance
  • identifying the factors which lead us to discriminating other people
  • practicing key competences necessary for personal development

The outcomes of the event:

  • understanding the concepts of diversity, privilege and oppression
  • broadening awareness and acceptance
  • accepting people different from oneself without prejudice or judgment
  • respecting others for their differences on the grounds of gender, race, religious and socioeconomic differences.