P5's healthy eating day with Edge Hill students

Date: 2nd Mar 2017 @ 5:18pm

Sports and development students, from Edge Hill University, came to teach our year 5 children about healthy eating. 

The children began the session by looking at sporting heroes, they then found out details about each personality, Jessica Ennis, Usain Bolt, Mo Farrah, Sam Quek and Michael Phelps. Each group were then given one of the sporting heroes as their team name. After sharing the sporting facts, the children shared facts about themselves. 

The next session consisted of the groups creating their ideal lunch box. They then created a healthier lunch box using the eat well plate giving a more balanced lunch. This was then followed by an obstacle course where the children had to compete against other teams from their class. 

The final session was a Dragon's Den activity. 

Each group had to follow a set criteria to create a healthy smoothie. 

They had to include:

• The name of their company
• The name of their smoothie 
• A design for their bottle
• A label design for their bottle
• A list of ingredients 
• The price of their smoothie
• A catchy slogan to help sell their smoothie 
• An explanation about why their smoothie was special
• Finally, they had to consider who their target audience was. 

Each group then presented their product to the 'dragons'. They were then asked product specific questions from the 'dragons' confidently. 

The best part of the day was the smoothie tasting session, all of the smoothies were delicious. 

A special thank you to all of the Edge Hill students as year 5 had a really enjoyable day.