HOOK ONTO HEALTHY LIFESTYLE!

"""Hook onto a Healthy Lifestyle!"" is a project which stems from the precept that food is an essential part of our lives. This project allows us to learn about food and the culture and traditions based around it in a fun, exciting and creative way whilst at the same time achieving meaningful outcomes; also through this project we have pretended to promote in our students a healthy living acquiring good habits..The key objectives of the project were: improve achievement in relevant and high-level basic and transversal competences in a lifelong learning perspective developing foreign language skills, promote in our children an interest and understanding of the diversity of cultures, explore where food comes from and how it is used differently by European countries. Our key goal was to share our own culture and national heritage with our partner schools through a culinary and horticultural adventure which will incorporate the arts as well as developing ICT and gardening skills.There are seven schools involved in the project from Spain, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Greece and United Kingdom. The pupils are of a pre-primary and primary school age. The project have undertaken the following activities: Creation and circulation of a ""Pet Box"", Creation of a recipe book, Cookery workshops, Erasmus Garden, Blog, Veggies dictionary, Food through Art activity, Dvds about songs and games relating to food, a seasonal veggies calendar.We have intended that the new materials which we have created are shared and integrated into our own school planning. Pupils have accompanied their teachers to some of the meetings (in only 3, due to the circumstances of each school), allowing pupils to travel to each partner country (hosted in families) for a period of 6 days to discover the national healthy lifestyle. This activity has enabled our students to participate in educational activities in other European schools, live a fantastic experience, meeting other children, other families way of life and having the opportunity to practise English as a worldwide communication language and also learn some words in different European languages. Each school has focused its action on health by simply cooking of local products and also work on some traditional dishes related with festivities . This has allowed each country to promote its agricultural and culinary heritage and make other participating countries discover it with simple recipes made with local products. New technologies have helped us and have been our main support for communication (video conferencing, email, electronic support, e-twinning, What's App). The impact of this project consists on that all participants (pupils, teachers, families and schools) have a greater understanding of the diversity of European culture, food and lifestyles; helping us all to appreciate the true meaning of what it is to be a healthy and happy European citizen."