School kids went bananas for healthy eating in Huddersfield.

They packed into the town hall to make the most of the council’s nutrition campaign.

Around 200 pupils from 21 Huddersfield junior schools packed into the concert hall to learn about the importance of eating well and exercise.

Quizzes, blind fruit tastings and fair trade foods provided food for thought for the groups, who took part in the activities to mark the fourth annual school council summit.

Eco arts projects and DIY gardening were also on the menu at the interactive event, which offers the schools’ representatives the opportunity to create ideas for campaigns and see how pupils from other schools tackle issues.

Three high schools helped provide on stage entertainment, by performing dance routines and delivering speeches.

Enrichment activity facilitator, Jane Lees, who helped put on the event, said: “I think that the event has been a big success because it’s really engaged the children.

“We’ve got them to think about eating healthily, which is really important to enable them to live a good life.

“I think it’s also allowed them an opportunity to meet each other and find out what issues other schools are focusing on, which they don’t normally have much of an opportunity to do.”

Moorlands Primary School students Jude Lait, 11 who provided the event’s closing speech, learned how activities such as boxercise can help burn calories.

Jude said: “I thought the afternoon was really fun and gave us lots of ideas for how to approach ideas such as healthy eating at our school.

“We’ll feed back what we’ve learnt to other pupils.”

Dalton Junior and Infants School assistant head teacher, Emma Walsh, said: “It’s really good that a focus on healthy living has been provided by the council.

“We take this issue really seriously because we want to make sure that our children are living well.”

The following articles have all been written by Year 9 pupils at North Huddersfield Trust School following their visit to the School Council Summit.

Wardah Akhtar:

The seventh annual school council summit was an amazing experience. It was a lovely atmosphere when children from 23 different schools interacted.

Every year there is a theme for the summit, this year it was Health and Wellbeing. When everyone was settled, Clr Cath Harris, a local councillor, introduced the summit and explained what was going to happen. After that two girls from Salendine Nook High School performed a dance routine, which they had put a lot of effort into.

Moorlands Primary school had set up their table with a game-to close your eyes and eat a fruit then guess which fruit you have ate. Birkby Infant and Nursery School were showing everyone how to brush their teeth in the correct way; also they were giving toothbrush charts to the children.

Michaela Manzola Muberuka:

It was a pleasure to attend the seventh annual Student Council Summit, where 25 schools from all over Kirklees came together at Huddersfield Town Hall to socialise and have fun. This great event has been happening for the last six years and was organised by the Enrichment Activity Facilitators. The activities were relevant to the theme, which was Health and Wellbeing. There was also an impressive dance performance by two students from Salendine Nook High School. What I found interesting about the Student Council Summit is that each school had put an effort into the activities they created, for example, “guess the fruit”, “creating their own garden” and more.

Yoana Metodieva and Aleksandra Ruskova:

The first school we went to see was Birkby Junior School; they told us what they have learned about and explained the healthy and non-healthy food. We asked them if they enjoyed the event and why and they said: “Yes, because we need to know which food is healthy and which not”.

The second school we went to see was Fixby J & I School who donated food to children in need. They also told us about all the hungry people who live in our community. They said that the food helps people in crisis in our local community.

Lauren Parker:

All the schools there participated in this year’s theme Health and Wellbeing, organised by Lisa Jagger, Lee Bray, Katrina Whale and Jane Lees .

The summit began with a speech followed by an amazing free style performance from two students from Salendine Nook High School .Each school involved in the event created a display table to showcase what their school had prepared for the summit.

Kirklees Council will be encouraging schools and community groups to eat well all this week

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