Greece is a Mediterranean country with a warm climate and a very fertile soil which produces a big variety of fruits. Depending on the season, we have the opportunity to  consume various fruits which offer a big range of different tastes as well as nutritious ingredients.

Children are encouraged to eat fruit every day since fruits can be found in every household and fruits are quite often their school snack, too.

However, the Fruit Day is also there for students who are not yet convinced to bring and eat their fruit at school.

In order to find out which are the fruits our students love most we got them to vote:

And these are the results:

greek favourite fruit in english

Our school for many years instils in students healthy eating habits, participating in the national campaign “Breakfast gives you power.” This year we decided to enroll in the Guinness Book of Records, joining beating the record by children from Polish schools. For this purpose, on 6 November 2015. at. 10.00 am, ZSG No. 2 as the only school in Radomsko organized the biggest lesson in of cooking a healthy breakfast. 192 students from classes I – III of early childhood education and nursery unit joined the project. Teachers and parents helped us. In general, 222 people stood at breakfast tables. The event was registered by a camera and watched by witnesses and observers. The lesson was successful and at the end everyone could eat healthy sandwiches, cottage cheese and fruit skewers.

In May, we received the results of the National Team Program “Breakfast Gives the Power”. Our school has contributed to the establishment by Polish students the Guinness record in the largest cooking lesson of a healthy breakfast. We received the congratulation letter and diplomas.

In  the 11th Primary School of Haidari, Monday is not an ordinary day anymore. Monday is our Fruit Day! Every Monday  students are expected to bring or buy and consume at least one fruit taking part in a school contest. In this contest classes earn 1,2 or 3 stars depending on the number of students who eat fruit and at the end of the month the class which has more stars gets an award.

This is our fruit day poster:

However, this contest is not the only thing that happens in our school on Mondays. Teachers also organize a variety of activities related to fruits in order to familiarize students with them and to promote their consumption  throughout the week.

Decorating a fruit tree, playing a fruit snakes and ladders game, doing fruit crossword puzzles  and preparing  fruit salads are only some of the activities that have taken place in our school so far.

Healthy eating does not only concern consuming healthy food. It also concerns making sure that your hands are clean enough so that microbes do not accompany your food in its way into your mouth!

The 6th grade students of our school had the chance to take part in a very interesting workshop about hand hygiene, organised by Ms Akrivi Arvanity, the Supervisor of the Health Visitors Unit of Thriassio General Hospital. In that workshop, they studied the importance of washing their  hands thoroughly and they were also taught how to do it properly.

The visitor teachers during our Erasmus LTTA meeting also had the opportunity to attend that workshop, which can now be presented by themselves in all the other schools that take part in the  Erasmus+ HAPPENS project.