Photos taken by Pierre Sammut DOI

26th February 2014 was a day to remember for our year 6 students. The Honorable Dr Godfrey Farrugia, Minister for Health, visited our school and was a pioneer in promoting a healthy lifestyle among our students and members of staff.

This event was organised by the Local Council of Mgarr and the Health Promotion Unit who liaised with the school to make this event a success.

The year 6 students were introduced to the Minister for Health by Mr Paul Vella, mayor of Mgarr Local Council. Dr Farrugia, introduced himself to the students and expressed his gratitude for having been invited to share this experience with them.

Dr Charmaine Gauci, Director for Health Promotion and Disease Preventition, together with her teams of professionals, organised a workshop for our students.

The session kicked off with some warm up and stretching exercises, emphasising the need for exercise required by our body on a daily basis. A brief dicussion about breakfast followed. The students were then introduced to varying fruit and vegetables which were sorted according to colour. Finally the students prepared fruit kebabs with fruit  which was kindly provided by the Local Council.

The students and members of staff would like to express their heart felt thanks to the Minister for Health, the Health Promotion Unit and the Local Council for this opportunity 😉