Healthy Lifestyle Week

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Each year in St Michael’s College we focus on a different theme for our Healthy Lifestyle week. This Year our theme is “ find your way for five a day”
 
Our Year 8 Students will be taught about the importance of “Five a Day” through a thematic approach by a variety of departments.
 
Students in Year 8 worked on posters in the Art Department and here are the winners

 
Year 8
 
1st Prize           Jack Keane (8O)
2nd Prize           Darragh Corrigan(8O)
3rd Prize           Donal Walsh(8T)
 
Year 9


 
1st Prize           Matthew Murphy(9T)
2nd Prize           Colm Owens(9T)
3rd Prize           Steafan Allen(9M)
 
 
Year 8


 
1st Prize           Conor Mc Guinness(8P)
2nd Prize           Don Kelly(8O)
3rd Prize           Connor Jones(8O)

‘Find a way for your five a day’ :

Monday 1^st February-Friday 5^th February 2010

Thematic Approach

Year 8 Students

Departments to contribute

• Science: Students will work through Diet and Health Workboook

• Mathematics -Eat your Veggies

• Home Economics

      Identify favourite fruits

Know benefits of eating 5 a day

Produce a colourful fruit salad in class

• P.E.

Fitness Suite

(a)    Bleep Test(20 metre Endurance Test in the Sports Hall)

(b)    Chin – ups(Test in new Fitness Suite)

(c)    Introduction to Circuits(Mini circuit in Sports Hall)

(d)    Agility Circuit/Obstacle Course(Assembly Hall)

Road Map to improved Health and Fitness

All Year 8 Pupils will be given a handout which highlights the Key Areas that need to be worked on in order to improve their general health and fitness e.g. Lifestyle, Exercise as a family Diet,Diet/Nutrition,Benefits of Physical Activity

• ICT -Poster campaign to promote ‘Find a way for your five a day’.

• French/Irish -.Year 8 will learn vocabulary on Fruit/Vegetables and producing posters

• Music – Compose, Perform and record a rap in groups of four focusing on he Health promotion using vocals, percussion and sound effects.

£20 for 1^st place in Year group

• Drama – Investigate pupils’ perception of health-related stereotypes in a short drama presentation, for example , ‘a day in the life of a couch potato/ a fitness fanatic/a pensioner’

English- Themed poetry competition on ‘Five a Day’. Rap on Eating 5 portions of veg/fruit a day .Choral Recitation of Jabberwocky

• Art and  Design – Produce a Poster on ‘Five a day’

1^st Prize: £20

2^nd Prize: £15

3^rd Prize: £10 for each year group plus a prize for the best slogan

Wednesday 4^th February 2010

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