Our Health is Our Wealth (Promoting a Healthy Minds-Healthy Bodies Programme in the Primary School). Erasmus Project

Project Title

Our Health is Our Wealth (Promoting a Healthy Minds-Healthy Bodies Programme in the Primary School).

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 2018

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Health and wellbeing; Key Competences (incl. mathematics and literacy) – basic skills; ICT – new technologies – digital competences

Project Summary

In the face of many civilizational diseases resulting from a sedentary lifestyle, lack of exercise, improper diet and negative wellbeing, promoting a healthy lifestyle, healthy eating and sport, as well as increasing youth awareness of the role of nutrition and physical activity seem to be particularly important in the prevention of obesity and other diseases.
The aim of the project was to raise awareness of the school society in the field of healthy lifestyle and diseases resulting from unhealthy routines, with particular emphasis on healthy eating and increasing physical activity, as well as establishing social and cultural dialogue both at the local and European level. The assumption of the project was to change eating habits and increase physical activity by about 20% (applies to students and teachers).
During the project, students took part in international travels to partner countries, where they carried out project tasks: World Health Day celebrations, planning healthy menu, wellbeing workshops, visiting local food producers, designing the logo, participation in competitions, sport meetings, lectures and workshops promoting healthy lifestyle. Part of the project tasks was carried out at school. Among these tasks conducted surveys examining eating habits, preparing and distributing posters and leaflets promoting healthy lifestyle, organizing meetings and workshops on elimination of bad habits and supporting good eating habits.
All the students (aged 6-15) and teachers took part in the project. PE teachers were responsible for fitness activities, Science teachers for healthy nutrition and trained teachers for wellbeing workshops. Other teachers carried out project activities during their lessons, class trips and events, competitions, exhibitions, performances. English teachers introduced vocabulary related to the subject of the project during lessons and they were helpful in translating the developed products into English.
The project included six meetings (four traditional meetings and two virtual meetings because of Covid-19), one of them was only for teachers. They regarded to the organization of the project, detailed discussions on the activities, evaluation and writing the final report.
During the mobilities, the students, in addition to the activities related to health-related topics, were able to learn about the culture, architecture and customs of partner countries during various activities planned for them.
Visits in partner schools also developed the group work skills, the usage of ICT and motivation to learn languages.
During the project implementation, students acquired a range of skills useful at subsequent educational stages, such as preparing surveys, statistical analysis, creation of multimedia presentations and instructional videos related to the subject of the project.
The developed results were:
– improving the physical fitness of students and teachers through participation in regular sports events, extracurricular activities, meetings with athletes
– preparation of: traditional games (video), an international cookbook (e-book), the project’s logo and mascot, a common board game “Healthy Lifestyle Expedition”, the “Healthy food” questionnaire for students, parents and teachers,
– developing healthy eating habits through meetings with a dietician, doctors of various specialties, extra-curricular activities, culinary workshops
– creation of the project website and publishing project’s effects on TwinSpace
– topical noticeboards in classrooms regarding healthy food products
– higher cultural awareness
– improving the quality of the institution’s work by adapting examples of good practice observed during the visits in partner schools, increasing students’ competences and strengthening teachers’ professional competences.
We hope that after completion of the project, the above-mentioned activities and results will be continued. This will allow to maintain physical activity and a healthy lifestyle at a high level, especially after distance learning because of Covid-19. At the end of each school year, a survey was carried out assessing whether the project objectives were in line with the assumptions and the established results allowed the verification of the activities.
Knowledge of English and ICT also allowed to use more online resources that were useful to develop interests and self-improvement.
Formed international friendships, of both students and teachers, can be continued after the end of the project.
In addition, the impact of the project may be visible at the national, European and even international level by posting the final products (cookbook, a set of games and activities, calendar, board game “Healthy Lifestyle Expedition”) on the Erasmus+ platform. Due to the lack of restrictions on access to these publications, each recipient will be able to use them or just get inspiration and work out own solutions.

Project Website

http://ourhealthisourwealth.weebly.com/

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 149967,8 Eur

Project Coordinator

Zespol Szkolno-Przedszkolny nr 2 & Country: PL

Project Partners

• escola_angel_serafi_casanovas
• Kilglass National School
• ISTITUTO COMPRENSIVO “GIGLI” RECANATI
• Ângulos e Argumentos LDA
• Siauliu Salduves progimnazija