SCHOOL IN MOVEMENT: enjoying wealth being in good health! Erasmus Project

Project Title

SCHOOL IN MOVEMENT: enjoying wealth being in good health!

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 school education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2014

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Quality Improvement Institutions and/or methods (incl. school development); Inclusion – equity; Health and wellbeing

Project Summary

Our project takes place in a context of modern industrial societies where more and more young people suffer from problems related to rapid growth, sedentary life, drug and alcohol abuse, feeding disorders. Our school is located in a small villige where a big number of migrants live and many of our students start early on alcohol and tobacco consumption.
This project aims have been to make participants mitigate the adverse effects of unhealthy habits, improve their lifestyle and prevent future pathologies; educate them, both at the physical and psychological levels, in the importance of a balanced diet, enable them to deal with situations that may lead to imbalance. The project has made to develop awareness that sport and nutrition are essential for the proper growth of capabilities of an individual, providing information about anatomy, physiology, body posture in order to establish future healthy habits, the opening of the mind, new ways of working and living, the collaboration beyond the limits of the Erasmus+ life, a critical approach to different lifestyles, the sharing of experiences beyond local boundaries, the creation of national nets to put in practice what has been learnt from the project. Besides, the project has been a frame where students have had to express in english language to improve their language skills, improve their skills in the use of ITC and in the responsible use of social networks and develop attitudes of understanding and respect for the cultural differences that make up Europe.
The most relevant topics and priorities of the project has been: health and well being, inclusion-equity, school improvement and development, promotion of healthy life styles, promotion of young people’s social inclusion and well being.
During the project life we have launched a blog in each country and a common website, developed nutrition activities, researched on sedentary habits, written decalogues of the healthy eating habits and of good sporting habits, written a “ School in Movement” Health booklet and guidebook for a healthy life, created Top Ten Sports Questionnaires, a Video and an online comic on traditional European sports and games preparedTop Sports Presentations, videoconferences and leagues of all schools and organize “ School in Movement” Races and Sports and Health day.
We have also launched a Chess Club, a “School in Movement” Chess Tournament and annual chess magazines. Our teachers have prepared PE Teaching Units of postural health and ergonomics in sports and our students have even researched on Town Hall sport planning with interviews, internal debates and meetings with the mayor of the city council.
Coordination have been ensured through the use of e-mail, shared documents online, a Facebook group and page to keep in touch, a common web page, the main ITC tools such as Skype, web cams, telephone, fax, local blogs, newsletters once a term, Erasmus Clubs and Walls. Coordinators who have been informed the school boards on the project, coordinated the relevant school performance, organized the meetings, involve the students and parents, the exchange of school calendars to include changes in school planning, the distribution of tasks, division and control of activities in periods, control of the implementation of the project, creation of a budget control sheet, elaboration of spending proposal, evaluation session of each meeting, evaluation of the progress of the partnership, booklets to measure the impact of activities on students and teachers, questionnaires on ongoing activities, reports to the coordinator, observation of participation, final evaluation through reports from each school, virtual meetings to handle the project, establishing of a project Commission to establish the criteria to select students for the mobilities, , creation of a common file with the dissemination activities, checklist of students, questionnaire on the common website to see the assessment of the school community in each country.
From all this it has followed that our project has been a promotion of actions focused on encouraging a way of thinking, feeling and behaving that maximize the ability to live in equilibrium with the physical, biological and socio-cultural environment laying the foundation for a full future life.
Our proposal tries to settle the basis for a future collaboration beyond the limits of the Erasmus + life. Our target has been to create a sport & health European school net which can endure to encourage our students to open their mind to new ways of working and life, feel the need to and see the advantages of collaborating and sharing experiences beyond local boundaries. In order to facilitate this in our schools we decided to elaborate an Interdisciplinary Didactic Unit of the Project.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 128325 Eur

Project Coordinator

Instituto de Enseñanza Secundaria “San Martín” & Country: ES

Project Partners

• Draudziga aicinajuma Liepajas pilsetas 5.vidusskola
• Bartin Hasan Sabri Cavusoglu Fen Lisesi
• Liceo” A.Volta-Fellini “