How prestigious you can live healthy? Erasmus Project

Project Title

How prestigious you can live healthy?

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : School Exchange Partnerships

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: International cooperation, international relations, development cooperation; Health and wellbeing

Project Summary

Health emics and the fight against all kinds of drugs often appear in all kinds of media. The topic is so often discussed that it seems to us that everyone, including young people, should be educated. Unfortunately this is not the case. The High School Complex in Knyszyn subscribes to the need to implement the project: “How prestigiously can you live healthily?” . On the one hand, the initiative will promote healthy eating, on the other hand it will take care of the correct attitude of young people and additionally it will raise topics related to all kinds of stimulants. The school was established by a resolution of the City Council in 1993, however, the school did not participate in educational projects. The new Director noticed above all the unused potential of the sports facilities: a full-size sports hall, gym, corrective gym, gym and a complex of sports fields. As for a small institution, this is a facility that every Director would like to boast of, one condition is that teachers will be able to use the huge potential of the sports complex. We started the project by establishing a pre-project team that diagnosed the main needs of the students. We know that we must definitely raise the following issues: proper nutrition, posture defects, healthy weight loss and the fight against stimulants. As a school located in a small town, we hoped that we would only know the topic of all kinds of drugs from television. Life has shown that where the facility is located does not matter at all. As part of this project, we would primarily like to achieve the preventive goal in every topic. We would like to show that an improper diet leads to many diseases and, above all, reduces learning opportunities. Incorrect posture will always be an obstacle and a nuisance in all life activities. Unaware pursuit of a perfect figure will also lead to illness. We will discuss the topic of bulimia and anorexia. However, we would like to put a huge emphasis on all kinds of stimulants, starting with ordinary energy drinks. From our point of view, the success of the project is largely dependent on the awareness of parents. Therefore, parents will be involved in the project at every stage. We know that a dry information message on such difficult topics may not reach young people. That is why we want to place great emphasis on meetings with professionals from every topic: a dietitian physiotherapist, police officer, psychologist. The attractiveness of the project is greater because it assumes a trip abroad. Students from this school have never had such an opportunity. A meeting with young people from the Vilnius Antakalnis progymnasium partner school will help them understand the importance of the subject. This project is a great opportunity for our students to improve their language skills. It will also enable learning about a different culture, students will have the opportunity to see how youth work abroad. They will be able to attend lessons at a partner school. We want the whole community of our school to be involved in the project. However, the main characters will be students of classes V and VI. We cannot imagine that such an initiative could be limited to a selected age group. Of course, the participation of individual classes will be appropriate to the subject and possibilities of involvement. Preschoolers will be involved in an aesthetic setting, works on healthy food will be created. Classes I-III will develop their own original, contemporary and tasty nutrition pyramid. All project effects will be presented on a public board in the corridor. Meetings with a drug specialist and a meeting with a psychologist will be directed to grades IV-VIII. However, children from classes V and VI will participate in the cooperation of the schools. We are aware of the enormous role of parents in this project, we need their support very much. We will need it at the beginning of the project, implementation and dissemination of effects. Parents, working in different places and talking with friends, will be great at promoting our initiative. Representatives of the commune authorities and young people from nearby schools will also participate in our sporting events. In the project, we put the main emphasis on proper student-teacher relationships. Due to the topics discussed, the teacher must always be a person whom students trust. Permanent results of the project will be leaflets, presentations and work cards. The whole project will be reported on the school’s website. The event summarizing the project will be a sports meeting attended by children, parents and students from the Partner School. We believe that the opinion about our school will change, thus we may gain new students. We will be the school to be talked about. We believe that this project will initiate major changes.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 43410 Eur

Project Coordinator

Zespol Szkol Ogolnoksztalcacych w Knyszynie & Country: PL

Project Partners

• Vilniaus Antakalnio progimnazija