Be fit! Erasmus Project

Project Title

Be fit!

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 : Strategic Partnerships for Schools Only

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2015

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Environment and climate change; Health and wellbeing

Project Summary

The name of our project “Be fit!” expresses the main goal of the project. Therefore, be fit in all physical, mental and social aspects, appreciate yourself and your surroundings and nature, use your free time in an active way. The starting point of the project is one of the main objectives of EU health policy and that is the support of healthy lifestyle. In specific ways created by EU‘s strategy on topic health is strengthen role of citizen. The outputs of an international research study HBSC of WHO focusing on lifestyle of children and schoolchildren from 2010 unfortunately shows that for Czech and Slovak pupils compared to the previous data collection the number of pupils who are overweight increases while the boys are overweight more often. Another worrying indication is that there is a decrease in physical activity of pupils. The project deals with promotion of the development of basic and transversal competences of pupils in the field of health with focus on two basic determinants – healthy lifestyle and environment. Using an interdisciplinary attitude that has connected many school subjects, we focused not only on knowledge, but mainly on skills, changing attitude pupils in this issue and strengthen importance of practical etic in education in relation to handicapped persons. The main objective of the project was to motivate pupils to a healthy lifestyle and active free time, strengthening the responsibility of pupils for their own personal development, preventing of the hazardous behavior of pupils and perceive health as a significant value of human life. All the pupils of both schools were involved to some extent. Other goals were to increase language skills, to develop social skills and self-confidence of pupils, to improve ICT skills and to increase knowledge of the partner country. Pupils acquired two sports by three years that are not usually taught in their school and under the supervision of teachers they taught sports their partners from cooperating school. The pupils from Bystřice n. P. taught pupils from Slovakia floorball and hockey. Another school was focused on volleyball and judo. This part of the project is recorded in The Book of Sports – a joint product of teachers and pupils which has been created during three years of partnership. Each school have prepared information about two sports in the mother tongue and in English, it contains basic information about the history of the sport, the basic methodology of teaching, photos of students while doing sports, also visual materials of tournaments within exchanges and ‘Olympics for four sports’. The tournaments of mixed teams from both schools in floorball, hockey, judo and volleyball was realized during the meeting of the schools. The project was focused on the use of project-based teaching topics, which included Healthy Lifestyle, Environment and Health, The Idea of Olympic and Paralympic Games and shared project activity Games Without Borders. There was one project day in each school year which was attended by all pupils of both schools. In the last year of partnership the common multi-day project activity of pupils from both schools Games without Borders was realized in the coordinary school. This long-range connection with the elementary school Juh 1054, Vranov n. T. was realized during these days. Teachers and pupils from both schools were processed methodological information to the creation of the project which was used to create common methodological brochures in the mother tongue with English summary. The publications Healthy Lifestyle, Environment and Health, The Idea of Olympic and Paralympic Games, Games Without Borders was created. Another publications is The Chronicle of partnership which was created by pupils’ implementation teams from both schools in the their mother tongue and English. The creation of presentations, visual materials, electronic communication, the use of eTwinning environment, video conferencing and other activities was used to enhance the IT skills. The planned project’s impact on pupils was reflected in the positive shift of attitudes towards healthy lifestyles, the deepening of pupils’ knowledge and skills in the field of education to thinking in European and global contexts and multicultural education, the enhancement of language skills, the increase of IT skills and the increase of social skills and the self-confidence of pupils. Another target group are the teachers of school, there has been development of pedagogical competencies, languages and IT skills. We see long-term benefits of the project in strengthening of positive attitudes to healthy lifestyle of pupils, the possibility of using of the methodological publications by general pedagogical public. The sustainability of the project is in the extension of the offer of sports at both schools, repeating project days on healthy lifestyle and schools cooperation even after the project is completed.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 52350 Eur

Project Coordinator

Zakladni skola Bystrice n. P., Nadrazni 615 & Country: CZ

Project Partners

• ZAKLADNA SKOLA, JUH 1054, VRANOV NAD TOPLOU