Healthy Heroes Lunch Club Pupils' Club Pack 2023/24

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Contents

Pupils’ welcome.................................................................................................2 How to set up your club............................................................................... 2-3 Breaducation......................................................................................................4 Fun food facts............................................................................................... 5-6 What does a healthy lunchbox mean?.......................................................... 7 Ideas for activities in the PE hall/playground........................................8-12 Ideas for activities in the classroom...................................................... 12-13 Ideas for activities in the classroom or the PE hall/playground...... 14-15 Ideas for activities at home…………………………………………………………………16 Notes..................................................................................................................17

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Are you up for the challenge?

Welcome to the Healthy Heroes Lunch Club!

You are now the most senior pupils in school - you have the power to influence the younger classes to become healthier. We want you to use this power to set up a committee in your school.

With great power comes great responsibility...

As a Healthy Hero, your mission is to

B organise lunchtime games and activities B inspire good nutrition habits for the younger pupils.

Let's get started...

Step 1: Set up a committee!

You might want to consider four or five different committees in your class, which would be in charge at different times of the year. This way everyone gets a chance to be a leader and be in charge. Your teacher can help with this, and we have given you some stickers that the new committee can wear each time they take over!

The aim of the committee is to organise healthy activities and set good example for good nutrition at

lunchtime for the younger children. And it’s up to you to figure out how to do that!

It’s always good to have a specific aim for what your particular committee would like to achieve. For example, it can be as small as ‘more fruit in lunch boxes’, ‘healthier sandwiches’ or ‘more people playing ball games at break’! This is often called a ‘manifesto’ and helps you steer your ideas.

Manifesto: a written statement declaring publicly the intentions, motives or views of its issuer

Step 2: Where, When and How Often are you meeting?

At your meetings, you can discuss how you will organise and lead the lunchtime games, and what you will do to inspire good nutrition to the younger classes. You can review if your approaches are working and decide if you need new ideas. You will also decide how you will promote your work and share it with the rest of the school.

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Step 3: Set up a Healthy Heroes Lunch Club noticeboard.

It is important to promote the Healthy Heroes mission to all of your school and a great way to achieve this is by creating a noticeboard. We have given your teacher a ‘Healthy Heroes’ banner to help set up the noticeboard.

Here are some other things to consider:

There are some great ideas for activities in this e-book, but you can make up your own, or use your favourites! These activities are for you to organise for the younger children to play, so try to remember what you liked playing when you were their age! Games marked with (S) are a little bit more senior, so make sure you pick a game that’s the right level for the class you’re running the club with!

B Choose a location in your school where the younger children can see it.

B Update it regularly. For example, monthly sandwich recipes, seasonal fruit and vegetables.

B Is your manifesto included?

This will further promote the committee’s goal.

B Have you set up any competitions or extra activities? Make sure your school knows about it by posting it on the noticeboard.

One more thing! Each month we’ll be sending your teacher a video with a challenge for you! Make sure you ask your teacher to share the video with you each month.

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That’s it – over to you. Let us know how you get on, we’d love to hear!

Breaducation Bread was first made by the Ancient Egyptians as far back as 8000BC. They discovered the raising properties of yeast which allowed the bread to rise. They cooked their bread in round clay ovens these were the first baker's ovens.

Toasters were invented about 35 years before the first machines were made to slice bread.

The carbohydrates in one slice of white bread can produce enough energy to keep some adults running for 7 minutes!

If you drop a slice of buttered bread, there is an 80% chance that it will fall butter side down!

'The greatest thing since sliced bread' means that something is the best and most useful innovation invented in a long time. Try to use it in a sentence!

The wheat produced by an acre/4,046m2 of land could feed a family of 4 for 10 years.

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Fun food facts The word “sandwich” was coined in 1762 by John Montagu, the 4th Earl of Sandwich, who lived in Sandwich in Kent, England. He ordered meat between bread to eat while playing cards, without leaving the table or dirtying his fingers.

November 3rd is National Sandwich Day!

The potato was the first vegetable to be grown in space back in 1995!

Orange peel is used by some gardeners as a slug repellent.

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Bananas, kiwis and cucumbers are actually classified as berries!

In 16th-18th Century Europe, pineapples were so rare and expensive that they were often displayed like fine works of art!

Garlic has been used as a traditional medicine since the time of Ancient Egypt.

Cutting an onion releases a gas which causes us to cry.

Broccoli can be purple as well as green!

A pomegranate can contain up to 1,000 seeds.

Some people have a gene in their DNA that makes coriander taste like soap!

Oranges are not always orange! If grown in exceptionally hot countries, they stay green or yellow even when they are fully ripe.

60 different varieties of apples are grown in Ireland and are one of the only fruits grown in Ireland that are available all year round.

Your turn!

Come up with 3 of your own fun food facts. Use the internet or library to help. Write them in the boxes below and share them with your classmates. Ask your teacher to make photocopies of this page so your lunch club can join in this challenge!

A pomegranate can contain up to 1,000 seeds.

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What does a healthy lunchbox mean?

A healthy lunchbox needs to provide energy to meet a child’s needs for the entire school day. It should be rich in protein and high in starch and fibre. Studies show that lunchboxes today are deficient (lacking) in healthy foods. We need you to educate the younger children about what goes inside a healthy lunchbox and why is it so important.

A healthy lunch can be divided into four main groups: 1. A protein rich sandwich 2. A portion of fresh seasonal fruit 3. A portion of fresh seasonal vegetables 4. A source of dairy food to provide calcium and protein

Why do I need protein?

Every single cell in the human body is partly made up of protein; you need protein in your diet to make new cells and repair old ones – they are essentially the building blocks of life.

It’s also hugely important for growth and development. Examples of foods rich in protein include meat, milk, cheese, fish, eggs, soya, beans, nut butters and some grains like quinoa.

Why do I need vegetables?

Why do I need fruit?

Why do I need dairy?

Fruit provides fibre and antioxidants (these help keep cells strong). It also provides some vitamins and minerals especially vitamin C and potassium.

For example, oranges, kiwi and watermelons contain Vitamin C and bananas, apricots and prunes contain potassium and fresh Irish strawberries are rich in antioxidants.

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Vegetables can provide a range of vitamins and minerals including Vitamin A and Vitamin K, as well as fibre and important nutrients for healthy hair and skin. Try to include a different colour vegetable every day.

Milk and foods made from milk are called dairy foods. They are healthy sources of calcium, iodine, vitamin B2, vitamin B12 and vitamin D, which are needed for healthy bones and teeth. Dairy foods also provide a range of other vitamins and minerals as well as being a great source of protein.

Ideas for activities in the PE hall/playground On the next few pages, you'll find loads of ideas for activities for you to run with the younger classes during your lunch clubs. Don't forget - you can also make up your own games! You are the leader. It is very important to make sure you include everyone, and to make sure everyone is able to play in a safe way.

Free the Beanbag

Fruit Bowl

How To Play:

How To Play:

Pupils move around the space with a beanbag or small cushion on their heads.

B Pupils stand in a circle,

Pupils travel as the leader directs, for example:

B The leader assigns one

B Walk B Jog slowly B Travel sideways B Walk backwards B Walk with your arms stretched out ahead

B Walk with your arms stretched out above you If a beanbag falls off a pupils’ head, they must freeze!

The frozen pupil can only be freed if another pupil points at them and says a special phrase (the leader can make up the phrase, for example: “By the power of the Healthy Heroes, you are free!”).

spaced apart. of four different fruits to everyone in the group (for example, pear, apple, banana and orange).

B Each person must remember their assigned fruit.

B When the leader calls a fruit, for example ‘pears’, all the pupils who are that fruit (i.e. pears) should swap places with the other pears!

B The leader might call out two fruits together (for example, bananas and oranges) and then all the bananas and oranges have to move at once.

B If the leader calls ‘Fruit Bowl’ everyone must change position!

Tips: Challenge the players even further by calling unassigned fruits, and even foods that are not fruits at all. For example, sausages and carrots!

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Shadow Tag This game is like normal tag but with a twist!

How To Play:

B The leader chooses two players to be the chasers.

B They have to chase the other players.

B Instead of tagging by touching someone, you tag someone by standing on that person’s shadow!

B When a player is tagged, that pupil has to put one arm behind their back while moving.

B If a person is tagged a second time, they must hop around on one leg with their arm still behind their back.

B If a person is tagged a third time, they take the place of the chaser who tagged them. *This game is best played outside on a sunny day.

Follow the Leader How To Play:

B The leader divides the group into smaller groups of 3 to 6 pupils, asking them to stand one behind another in a line.

B When the leader says “go”, the person at the front of the line must start doing an action, for example:

» Star jump » Squat » Clap high above your head » Hop on one foot 3 times » Pretend to pass a ball between your legs B The next person in the line has to copy them and so on until everyone in the line has completed the action.

B When the person at the end of the line has done the action, they must run to the front of the line.

B It is then their turn to make up an action to be copied.

B To make it even trickier, the leader can change the move any time they choose!

Hoopla How To Play:

B The leader assigns each group a section of the hall or playground to move around in.

B The leader will need to place a hoop in the middle of each playing space.

B Each pupil is given their own beanbag.

B When the leader says “go”, pupils must jog around their assigned space, holding their beanbag in their hand until the leader says “Hoopla”.

B All pupils freeze on the spot.

B Then one at a time, pupils take turns aiming and throwing their beanbags into the hoop in their playing space.

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Bowling (S) How To Play:

B Collect plastic bottles that are all roughly the same size.

B Optional: Remove the labels from the bottles, so that you can paint them with any design you like.

B Include a number from 1-10 on each bottle.

B Once your pins are ready, set them up in a triangle shape, in random order in the playground. Decide how many rounds you would like to play.

B Stand back from the pins, and use a small ball (tennis ball, etc.) to aim for the pins.

B Each player has 2 tries per turn to try and knock over the pins. At the end of your turn, check which pins you have knocked down and add up their numbers. For example, if you knocked down pins 1, 3 ,5 ,7 and 9, then your score would be 25.

B Once you’ve completed all the rounds, the player with the highest number of points wins the game!

Classroom Olympics (S) Have your own classroom Olympic Games!

How To Play:

B Pick your team and create your ‘country name’. You can be a real country, or make up your own name!

B Choose which games you’d like to include in your Olympics.

You can use traditional games like football or basketball, or get creative and come up with some new ones yourselves!

B Each team plays each other at each sport. This activity can last a few breaktimes, and its important to keep score as you go!

B Decide how many points a team gets for winning, drawing and losing. Maybe 2 points for a win, 1 point each for a draw and 0 points for a loss.

B At the end, the team with the highest overall score are the Olympic Champions!

Tips: If children are finding it difficult to hit the bottles with the small ball, use a larger ball, like a basketball.

To make it more of challenge, try to multiply all the numbers rather than adding!

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Hold Hop Relay How To Play:

B Divide the players into teams and ask each team to stand in a line at the start.

B Give each team a beanbag or basketball (basketball for older players).

B When the leader says “Go” the first person must put their beanbag/ basketball between their knees and hop to the finish line, where they deposit the beanbag/ basketball into their hoop and run back to the start.

B The next person runs down and collects the beanbag/ basketball, hopping back to the start line with their beanbag/ basketball between their knees.

B Continue on again with the next player. The first team to have all players back to the start wins.

Jungle Run How To Play: Invite the children to run through the ‘jungle’ as they face different obstacles and animals that they need to get away from. The leader gives appropriate commands, and the children must carry out a suitable action.

B Jump over logs B Duck under branches B High knees through quicksand B Run from the tiger B Tiptoe past the snake B Talk to the monkeys B Hop on the lily pads B Balance on the rocks in the river Tips: Come up with commands to suit different settings. For example, Library Run - tiptoe past the librarian, hop over the bags, dodge the falling books.

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Guess Who How To Play:

B Ask each player to sit in a

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circle on the floor or on a rug.

B Ask one pupil to stand separate from the group to be ‘the detective’.

B Assign one pupil to be the ‘leader’.

B The leader will start doing an action

Copy Cat! How To Play:

B Each player finds a partner.

B The pairs all stand up and face each other.

B One partner starts doing different

actions of their choice, such as hopping on one foot, moving their arms, etc.

with their body (i.e., clapping, jumping, jogging on the spot, etc.) and the whole class will follow.

B The other partner must copy these

B Bring the detective to the centre of

B The goal of the game is to mirror each

B The ‘leader’ will do different actions

B Players can take turns being the

the circle.

and the whole class will follow.

B The detective has to guess who the leader is!

B Once they guess correctly, they will

join the circle and the old leader will become the detective and a new leader is chosen.

actions. other.

copycat.

*This is a fun activity to play at home with a member of your family. If there are more people in your household, invite them to play and guess who is copying who!

Ideas for activities in the classroom The Bean Game How To Play: Making sure everyone is properly distanced, the leader calls out a type of bean and the rest of the players carry out the required action.

B Runner bean – run on the spot B Jumping bean – jump on the spot B Broad bean – make themselves as wide as they can

B String bean – make themselves as tall as they can

B Jelly bean – wriggle and wobble

B Frozen bean – shiver and make “Brrrr” sounds

B Baked bean – curl up in a ball B Beans on toast – lie spread out on the floor

B French bean – pose and say “Oh la la”

like jelly

Make it even more fun by adding your own ‘beans’ as well! *If there are two or more people in your home, you can play this at home too!

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On the Road How To Play:

B Have children stand at their chairs.

B Ask them to listen as the leader calls out different words connected with being on the road. Then ask them to do the following actions when each of the words is called out:

» Green light

– Jog on the spot » Red light – Stop » Orange light – Jump up » Roundabout – Turn around on the spot » Traffic jam – Squat down and tip the ground and then stand up » Motorway – Run on the spot

Luck of the Draw How To Play: B The leader asks pupils as a class to contribute ideas for simple exercises, for example: » Jump in and out, bringing your legs together and apart

» Jump in and out diagonally » Squat down and up » Walk sideways and tap your head » Do a full turn with your hands on your hips B The leader writes down 10 of these ideas.

B Pop all the ideas into a pot (or a suitable container).

B In a second pot, pop in 11 pieces of paper, each with one of the following numbers 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15.

B The leader shuffles around the pieces of paper in the first pot until someone says ‘stop’ and they pull out the exercise they have in their hand.

B Do the same for the second pot.

B The whole class has to do whichever exercise was chosen, repeating it the number of times chosen – but it’s all the luck of the draw!

B The leader keeps pulling out new activities for the class until all 10 are done!

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Ideas for activities in the classroom or the PE Hall/playground Move to the Groove How To Play:

B Have each player name various ways they can move their hands, feet, arms and bodies, such as:

» stomp or tap their feet » move their arms up, down, out straight, or around

» snap, pat, or clap their hands » move their bodies by bending, stretching, jumping, etc.

B Divide the class into their groups and have them make up a pattern to do over and over such as: two claps and three stamps; snap, tap, clap – snap, tap, clap.

Or, they could use arm and hand motions such as arms up, hands on hips, arms up and arms down at sides.

B Have each group perform their arrangement for the other children who then join in and follow their lead. Have the groups start very slowly and gradually increase their speed as they continue to lead their pattern.

B A variation is to have them make up a chant to go with their movements. For example, “Bend to the left, bend to the right, then clap your hands with all your might”.

Healthy Heroes Says How To Play:

B The leader stands in front of the other players and tells them what to do. For example, » Clap your hands » Pretend you are hoola hooping

» Jump up high » Jazz hands » Jog on the spot

B But! The players should only respond to commands that begin with the words “Healthy Heroes says…”.

B If the leader says “Healthy Heroes says jump up high”, the players should jump.

B But if the leader simply says “Jump”, the players must not jump.

B If anyone jumps, they’re out of the game!

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Opposite Moves

All Sit Down

How To Play:

How To Play:

B One pupil is assigned to be the

B Pupils stand in small groups.

leader.

B When the leader says GO – all players must freeze in place.

B When the leader says STOP – all players must move around the space either walking, jumping or running.

B When the leader says UP – all players must sit or lay down.

B When the leader says DOWN – all players must stand up and stretch their arms up toward the ceiling.

B Any player who does the wrong action is out.

B Continue until there is only one player left and then start again! *You can also play this game at home with family members.

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B The leader calls out different physical activity instructions e.g. Touch your toes, do 3 jumping jacks, hop 6 times.

B The players have to listen carefully to the leader because as soon as the leader calls out “All sit down” the players must sit down on the ground.

B The first group to have all members sitting down wins!

Ideas for activities at home Keep It Up How To Play:

This is a fun one to play at home with family members!

B You need a balloon or a ball and space for this game.

B Stand in a circle holding hands.

B The leader drops one balloon into each circle.

B The players have to work together to try and keep the balloon up in the air but they have to keep their hands joined at all times.

B They can tap the balloon with their head, chest, shoulders, elbows, hands, arms and knees to keep it up but not their feet.

B See how long you can keep the balloon up!

B To make it trickier for older children you can add more balloons to the circle.

Time Trials How To Play:

This is an activity which children of all ages can do at home.

B Time yourself walking, running, cycling, skipping or hopping a certain distance B For example, you might: » Walk around your local park » Run (safely) to the closest post box or lamppost near your house » Cycle to the local shop » Jump or skip around your house B Write down how long it took you.

B Repeat this activity another day and try to improve on your time.

B Make sure your parent/guardians are with you or have given you their permission and know where you are at all times if you are leaving your house.

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Email: healthyheroes@realnation.ie Post: Healthy Heroes Lunch Club Project Office, Real Nation, 94 Baggot Street Lower, Dublin 2, Republic of Ireland, D02 XN82 Phone: 00353 1-522-4846