Healthy balls:)

Ingredients:
2 glasses of cashew nut

½ glass of coconut flakes

1 glass of dried dates

1 lime

pinch of salt

Preparation (about 5 minutes):

Mix all the ingredients into a homogeneous mass. Form balls of nut size from the mass.


Enjoy!

Evaluation Report of the Move up project

The "Move up to be healthy and happy" project, after two years of implementation, has come to an end. The implementation of international activities was launched in January 2016. It focused on achieving the assumed goal, which was to raise the awareness of children, parents and teachers about a healthy lifestyle.

The key project activities included:

- innovative PE lessons for children from primary school classes,

- educational classes in the field of proper nutrition for children,

- workshops for parents and teachers,

- sporting events for children, young people and parents,

- setting up an internet platform for joint exchange of experiences,

- creating a handbook for children about healthy lifestyle and physical activity.

Partners from countries such as Poland, Italy, Portugal, Great Britain, Romania and the Czech Republic have spent countless hours to implement the planned activities, changing the habits of project participants for healthy choices.

As all statistics show, the Partnership achieved the planned products and results of the project. At each stage of project implementation, all planned activities were carried out equal to or larger than assumed in the project application. Partners have adopted various forms of implementation of project activities, adapting to the existing situations and possibilities. The project inspired the involved institutions to continue their efforts to raise the awareness of children, teachers and parents about the need to lead a healthy lifestyle. This fact is a huge success of the partnership, because the "Move up" project will have its continuation in the form of organized sports and recreation events and classes in schools. What is important, it motivated many people to work on changing the pro-health education system for the youngest, and this is the greatest success of the project.

We would like to thank all participants of the project - primary school pupils, teachers, parents, management of educational institutions, educators and the project team who put in a huge amount of work in the implementation of the above activities.

We encourage you to familiarize yourself with the evaluation report, which describes in detail the implemented activities, the results achieved, and also the conclusions and recommendations.

Evaluation Report

Crossword about Move up project!

Test your knowledge about Move up project and solve the crossword.

Questions:

1. What is the name of the European Union Programme which the project is co-funded from?
2. Which country Municipality of Lousada comes from?
3. WHO recommends 60 minutes of physical ..... for children every single day.
4. This is the best kind of drink that we should use to hydrate our organism.
5. In a small can of cola we'll find 7 spoons of this product that we need to avoid.
6. What is important in keeping our body in good shape beside healthy diet and doing sport?

Sum up of the project!

We can't believe that project Move up to be healthy and happy ends...

It was a great, 2-year, international adventure full of new experiences, ideas and knowledge. We spent a lot of hours on changing children's habits to healthy way of life.

Sometimes it wasn't easy to implement planned activities but it always was a challenge that we tried to meet the best we could.

We conducted:

• 75 workshops for parents and teachers,
• 795 P.E. classes,
• 430 awareness campaigns,
• 56 sports events.

We educated 7.459 children and 281 teachers!

What makes us most happy is unexpected positive feedback from all participants!

We are more than sure that this project was important for parents, teachers and children and we promise to continue its ideas!

Thanks to all the project team:

Poland: Katarzyna Kohnke, Agnieszka Białas, Agnieszka Niewiadomska

Italy: Assunta Sperduto, Francesca Bonin, Laura Quadrelli

Portugal: Ana Silva, Bruno Marante, Artur Pinto

Great Britain: Ross Walker, Pauline Hathaway, Gilbert Barnett, Carrie Starace, David Baker

Romania: Dragos Nechita, Marius Dumitrescu-Faur, Alexandra Moldovan, Anamaria Crainic, Adina Pascoiu

Czech Republic: Jan Herget, Michal Novotny, Martina Trigilla

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Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

International team of the Move up project wish all of you Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Merry Christmas!

Wesołych Świąt!

Buon Natale!

Feliz Natal!

Crăciun Fericit!

Veselé Vánoce!

How to build strong bones of our children?

First of all children should eat products rich in calcium and vitamin D. Calcium is a basic, building material for bones and teeth, co children need to eat at least 3 portion of products that will provide them this important element. 

What should we eat?

• natural yogurt, kefir, buttermilk or cottage cheese;
• leafy vegetables;
• pulses;
• broccoli and brussels sprouts;
• almonds and nuts;
• fish, that are not only full of calcium but also vitamin D.

Don’t forget about walking in the open air! Only 15 minutes of walk, especially in sunny day, will give you proper portion of vitamin D.

Take care about physical activity of your kid – sport allows calcium to build up in the bones.

We don’t have to worry about Christmas!

Can you imagine that almost 3-year old elves are preparing Christmas?

Yes, they are! We saw them in Gdynia during the event called “Elf, move up!” that was organised by Gdynia Sports Centre as a part of the project Move up to be healthy and happy. Elves definitely couldn’t be bored, they had a lot of work! All the tasks weren’t easy – warm up with Zumba dancer, climbing and jumping on slides, basketball, football, rugby and handball trainings, but also supporting adults in solving very difficult quiz about health!

Now, we are more than sure, that Christmas will be healthy and happy :-)