Take a look at our timetable
In our joint activities, mobilities are important, but also the activities planned for implementation included in the timetable are of great importance. We carry out these activities locally, everyone in their school, and then share the results. Specific activities related to the subject of our project were planned for each month, but of course, during the project implementation, we adapted their implementation to the conditions and possibilities. For example, our plans were completely thwarted by covid, as well as the introduction of online lessons in schools (but more on that in another post).
So, take look at our timetable …
September 2019
Familiarizing the school community with the project. The students make a film about themselves, the school. Getting to know students from partner schools. Project corners in schools – information about the project and partner schools. Survey on daily activities, exercises and fitness: presenting results in the form of graphs and diagrams.
Competition for the logo of the project – proposals from each partner school, the logo of the project will be selected through online voting (eg tricider).
Starting the actions which will be run during the project:
Active break – the first break – exercises with accompanying music, conducted by students (there can be more acitve breaks during the school day).
Break with the fruit – each student eats the fruit.
Break with juice from freshly squeezed fruit prepared at school.
Walk in different weather conditions – walks around the area, encourage children to walk in different weather conditions.
October 2019
Task for students – students write down everything they eat during the whole day. Teachers observe students what they eat at school. After a week, analyzing the records and observations of teachers, the students share their comments, discuss with the teacher, with other students, how we evaluate their eating habits.
Meeting with a nutritionist for students and teachers. Meeting with a nutritionist for parents.
Workshops with children “Pyramid of healthy eating”. Making a pyramid of healthy eating using previously brought packaging of food products or preparing posters.
Settlement of the competition for the logo of the project.
November 2019
Analyzing the assortment of a tuck shop, if it is in school, for healthy food. Providing a shop with healthy products.
Why breakfast is the most important meal of the day. Healthy breakfast; students prepare recipes for healthy and nutritious breakfasts, take photos, translate recipes into English. Students create a multimedia presentation with all the collected recipes (students learn and try different programs to create presentations as an alternative to the popular power point, for example, prezi, focusky, vuvox, capzles, mybrainshark).
Creating a pyramid of physical activity and movement – posters.
December 2019
Homemade, traditional recipes for Christmas dishes in our countries. How can I actively spend Christmas – student proposals posted on the project’s twinspace using the Padlet or Pinerest app.
Finding out fairy tales, poems, myths or traditional stories from each country concerning nutrition. These stories could be acted by puppets made and held by students or they can be the core of short theatrical plays.
January 2020
Sweets – to eat or not to eat? Workshops for students organized by class teachers. Can sweets be healthy? An alternative to sweets. Students create an information brochure containing information they collect. Students create a comic book, whose main character is addicted to eating sweets using, for example, applications such as pixton.
Creating carnival masks decorated with fruit and vegetables.
As winter, spend time outdoors. A trip to the ice rink or other winter fun on the snow. We make a snowman – a competition for the biggest, prettiest snowman.
February 2020
Meeting with a dentist. How the diet affects our teeth. How to properly care for your teeth. Choosing the right brush and paste. After the meeting, students prepare virtual posters using the Canva or Clogster application. School competition for the best poster.
The action “I brush my teeth after every meal”. Whenever possible, the organization of brushing teeth in kindergarten / school.
March 2020
Culinary workshop of our traditional, national dishes, carried out by experienced local housewives. Report from the workshops in the form of a presentation using, for example, Animoto.
Dietary habits in our countries, our national cuisines, typical dishes, recipes, culinary traditions (photos, drawings, descriptions in the form of a virtual book or presentation).
April 2020
How to behave at the table. Behavior at the table, the culture of eating, how to properly set the table and how to decorate it nicely, how to properly use the cutlery. We put napkins – napkin origami, table decorations made of napkins. Talks and workshops at school. Pupils take pictures of their tables at home, this can be done during Easter.
Sports disciplines in the past and today; ancient sports disciplines and their continuation to the present.
May 2020
Spring vegetables grown in our gardens, typical of partner countries. Younger children make plasticine vegetables. Figures and pictures of vegetables with descriptions, students prepare a multimedia presentation in a selected program or movie. We set up a school vegetable or vegetable and fruit garden (according to the school’s option). Pupils set up and run a garden with the help of teachers and school staff. Photographs documenting particular phases – garden planting, observation of growing plants, harvesting crops throughout the duration of the project.
Visiting a nearest factory of food (if there is one near). Report on the visit in the form of an article to the website written by students.
June 2020
Summary of the first year of the project. Festivities for the school and local community. Presentation of students’ work carried out throughout the year of the project. A film or presentation showing the entire community activities that took place throughout the year of the project. A stand with healthy food. Sports competitions for students and their families. A presentation prepared by students related thematically to healthy eating and a healthy lifestyle.
September 2020
Presentation with photos of healthy, interesting, delicious meals, taken by the students during the holidays with descriptions.
Meeting with an athlete (if possible, if not with PE teacher). Athletes’ diets. Threats resulting from the use of various nutrients, supplements in sport.
Rational food planning. The water is healthy. Why physical activity is so important in a person’s life. How to spend free time outdoors. During classes with class teachers, students in groups prepare posters. Hanging posters on school corridors. A movie with photos of posters.
October 2020
Autumn harvest – gifts of autumn; exhibition at school; artworks prepared by younger children, recipes for dishes from autumn fruits and vegetables. Roast potato celebration – healthy potato dishes – we prepare them at school, then a joint meal in the open air.
Making a video game (using scratch) with a young boy/girl getting fatter or slimmer after getting wrong/right kind of food.
November 2020
Healing properties of various food products. Searching for information, organizing them. Creating a virtual catalog of such products with descriptions and photos.
Herbs and their importance in preparing dishes. If possible, organize a meeting with an herbalist who will tell you how to collect herbs, how to grow them, how to use them. If not, searching for information on the internet, but also students can ask their mothers, grandmothers, neighbors what they know about it.
December 2020
Meeting with a dietitian. How to read labels from food packaging. How to calculate the correct body weight. How to adjust the number of calories. How to count calories. How to properly arrange meals and their amount during the day. The students write a report on the meeting with the dietitian, the best will be published as an article on the school’s school website.
January 2021
Carnival madness – we collect recipes for carnival sweets from our countries. Each country draws a recipe from another country, so that at each school prepared sweets from another country, at the school baking workshops, cookies from partner countries.
The motto of this month: I eat sweets with moderation.
Learning local dances from our countries and partner countries – dancing as a form of physical activity.
February 2021
Workshops for children – different styles of nutrition, characteristics. What does it mean to be on a diet? What does it mean to use a specific diet? Who is a vegetarian / vegan?
My favorite dishes. Children give recipes for their favorite dishes.
How to behave in a restaurant? Playing scenes, writing dialogues, also in English.
March 2021
Students write a story in their mother tongue. “Once upon a time there was a girl who was a poor eater…”. Based on their story, students create a virtual book using, for example, Flip Book Maker or Storybird.
Fasting as a manifestation of religiosity in our countries, but also a way to purify and detoxify the body.
April 2021
Easter menu in our countries. Students prepare multimedia presentations.
A trip to a nearby store. We are looking for healthy products on the shelves. Indication of products that should be avoided. Buying several healthy products needed to make healthy sandwiches, making sandwiches at school. At the end of the project, re-conduct a survey on daily activities, exercises and physical fitness, and present the results in the form of diagrams and diagrams and a comparison with the survey conducted at the beginning of the project.
May 2021
Nice, tasteful serving of meals. What is important is what we eat, but also how we eat, how we serve food. How can we place dishes on a plate in an interesting and tasteful way? We watch movies and photos on the internet. Pupils at home help parents during meals, they take pictures of interesting dishes. Competition for the best photo.
Eat healthy and colorful – recipes for healthy salads. Workshops for making healthy salads.
Menu in my private restaurant. Students arrange the menu in English. They design a menu card. The competition on the most interesting menu, also in terms of aesthetics and graphics. Younger children can only draw and sign dishes.
June 2021
Festivities for the school and local community. Summary of the 2 years of the project. Presentation of students’ work carried out throughout the year of the project. A film or presentation showing the entire community activities that took place throughout the year of the project. Stands of partner countries with dishes from a given country. Outdoor games and fun. Art performances of children related to the subject of a healthy lifestyle.
EDIT: Due to the covid-19 pandemic, the timetable had to be slightly modified.