108 students in the first year of primary school at high school San Cernin have participated in a health promotion activity promoted by the classroom Saludable of the School Nursing School of the University of Navarra.

In small groups, the 5 and 6 year olds participated in three different workshops. Through games, songs, manipulative practices and dynamics adapted to their age, they learned how to perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation, to identify the contents of a first aid kit and to heal a wound, with the help of a simulation of leave fidelity with tasktrainer of arms and legs. In addition, the children were taught to identify the main bones and organs of the human body and to classify foods in the food pyramid.

The activity has been led by two internal students, Marta Belmonte and Lucía Mazzuchelli, and a student studying the Diploma in Leadership, research and teaching (LID), Irati Valencia; all of them from the department of Community and Maternal and Child Nursing. These three students have received previous training , as health promotion agents and, in turn, through the peer-to-peer training have instructed 16 other 3rd year students, who have taught the different workshops.

"The idea of this activity was to generate a culture of health in children, but also to develop leadership skills in our nursing students," explains Professor Marta Vidaurreta, one of those responsible for project.

"We trained our colleagues through seminars so that they could learn the information we wanted to transmit and we taught them how to adapt it to the children through play," says Marta Belmonte, one of the interns who led the project. "We based our work on simple activities that would attract the children's attention; very interactive to encourage them to learn," explains her colleague Irati Valencia. "It has been a very rewarding experience. For me personally, has helped me to learn how to address children and to realize that their learning is very much based on observation.", he concludes.

Acquiring the necessary skills to communicate effectively with such young children was one of the objectives of the activity. "Through this project, we also sought that the nursing students, when planning the activities and developing the workshops with the children, would understand the characteristic features of development in the school stage," explains Professor Maider Belintxon, also manager of project.

"We were concerned about the coordination of the whole team, that they would meet the deadlines and at the same time be able to transmit the information to the children in a didactic way," says Lucía Mazzuchelli, another of the interns who led the activity. "We have learned to work as a team, to manage stress in times of difficulty. It has been a very rich experience," she concludes.