Youth in Motion 2005

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Promoting good health in lessons and school life in general means:

To make children experience the connection between food, drinks and activity.
To give children positive connotations with health and a healthy life style including food, drinks and activity.
To teach a holistic approach to health, which includes physical, cognitive, psychological and social aspects.
To focus on young people's attitude towards life, their well-being and their needs.
To teach young people practical ways of developing a competent approach to health and a healthy life style - according to their individual age and their level of development.
To include pupils in the teaching process and to allow them to participate actively.
To apply a multidisciplinary, project-orientated and practical approach.

Practical help

Eat, drink and be active - the secret recipe
The following 200-year-old story by German writer Johann Peter Hebel could be a good starting point to discuss the connection between health, food, drinks and activity without being patronising. Similar stories also exist in other countries and cultures. The stories can be read or used as a template for playing short dramatic scenes, e.g. to introduce the subject of health at parents' evenings.

Seven good reasons for a healthy diet and regular exercise
The seven good reasons can be worked out together with the pupils. You could also enlarge the list and hang it up in the classroom. The pupils decide which aspect they would like to deal with more intensively.