Sports and healthy living

Escuela D4 Arica

Teachers and students from second to eighth primary grade have prepared a curricular project to carry out sports activities to improve Health and a Culture of Peace Starting with surveys and talks on Health and Peace.

A great event was held this year to evaluate the result of what was applied. The results were excellent in terms of attitude behavior and health of the students. During the development of the activity without competition all students and teacher finished with a big group hug ( see photos ) Coordinator Gladys Hernandez  Principal Ruth Dini

Reducing the food footprint of our school

Parksepa Secondary School

Goal 1 - promoting vegetarian food

We made a poster to inform the students about the project. We also made a presentation to talk to the students about the benefits of vegetarian food for people and the environment. 

To popularise vegetarian food even more, we organized a workshop for a small group of students. In the workshop, we learned to make three different healthy meat-free snacks. Our instructor was Egle Kõva, a nutrition specialist.

Vegetarian food was served in our school canteen once a week throughout November. For example we had lentil soup and vegetable stew. 

At the end of November, we asked the students if they had noticed that they were recently served vegetarian food. Almost half of them either weren’t sure or didn’t notice at all. From this, we can conclude that switching to vegetarian food once a week isn’t that difficult. 

Goal 2 - reducing the amount of food waste

First, we measured the amount of food waste in our canteen during one week from the 8th to the 12th of November. The results were written on a poster in our canteen every day, so everyone could see them. It’s interesting to see that on Wednesday, when vegetarian food was served, there was less food waste than on almost all of the other days.

We had a similar project in our school two years ago, where we also measured food waste during one week. Comparing this year’s results to the previous ones, we can see that the amount of food waste has reduced. 

For the future, we have planned two more workshops: a consumption workshop for older students and a vegetarian food workshop for a smaller group of students. We are also planning to teach the recipes that we have learned to younger students so they can also make more healthy snacks at home. 

It has been a joy to learn about vegetarian food and its benefits. We hope to continue making life in our school healthier. 

Parksepa team

Sport and Peace

Escuela D-4 Arica

20 students from each fourth grade participate in the curricular activities of the School. The students wear a mask and keep distance between each other when doing sports to improve health and at the same time learn geometric figures and maintain good relationships with each other (Peace). The activity takes about 40 minutes twice per week using elastics (see photos)

Teachers of every fourth grade Teachers Patricia Eloy, Carol Rivera Joselyn Ormeño,Elizabeth Mardones y Alen TelloTotal students 80

Anorexia

Bereginya 684

Recently, our school hosted a conference that was prepared by the eleventh graders and held for the middle school students. This time we talked about such a common disease as anorexia. The graduates told the students about how anorexia manifests itself, about the treatment of this disease and about the myths about anorexia. This disease is quite common in our time, so it was interesting for graduates to prepare and talk about anorexia.

Dentistry as a Science

Bereginya 684

On February 2, in our school, students of the 11th grade of the chemical and biological profile held an interactive conference "Dentistry as a science”/”Rules of hygiene of the oral cavity " for first-grade students.

First, the conference was host by a student of the 11th grade, Nikolay Kazetov, presented a very useful and informative presentation about the anatomy of the maxillofacial region, the structure of the teeth and the functions of the maxillofacial system.

Also, our young doctors held two games with first-graders, during which the children determined which food is useful and harmful to the teeth.

Students of the 11th grade also explained how to properly brush your teeth and take care of the oral cavity.
All the participants of the conference liked this format of lections very much. The students not only shared useful information with the children, but also improved their knowledge.

Healthy Food & Healthy Eating Habits

Liceo Artistico

Liceo Artistico -Arica- Chile teacher Roberto Parra has been teaching to his 33 students to learn healthy eating habits since the beginning of the Corona Pandemic. They have learned to wash their hands and food when cooking or preparing the food. Currently they are passing on information gained to other students of school via online workshops.