Feel the HEAT – Healthy Eating Active Teens Erasmus Project

Project Title

Feel the HEAT – Healthy Eating Active Teens

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; Inclusion – equity; Access for disadvantaged

Project Summary

Background of the project:
We discuss a lot about the problems which are related to the lack of regular sport activity as well as bad eating habits of pupils and youth that leads to the wrong lifestyle in general. Bad habits will negatively influence their future life and they can probably transfer on their kids in addition. Majority of them do not realize that the food they eat in the present moment really do have an impact on their physical health, impacts their psyche, concentration while learning and the quality of the given effort. It will also influence their future life (wellbeing, choice of profession and broad approach to the life itself). “Feel the HEAT – Healthy Eating Active Teens” is strategical partnership based on the cooperation of the three primary schools from Slovakia, Poland and Italy. We have created this project to contribute to the solution of serious social problem which affects all of us directly. We want to focus attention of pupils (and indirectly of their parents too) by the interesting activities mainly targeted on healthier lifestyle, done through physical activities and healthy choice of meals.

Goals of the project:
Main aim of the project is to reach pupils’ awareness that unhealthy eating and lack of the physical activity have negative impact on the quality of life. Principles of healthy eating habits should be at least partly implemented into the daily lives of the pupils.
Other goals are to motivate pupils:
– to increase their interest about the English language through its practical use in real life context,
– to use ICT reasonably
– to explore new cultures, to realize similarities and differences and establish new contacts
– to develop cooperation, to erase prejudices while working with disadvantaged pupils.
Amount of the participants and their profile:
This partnership includes approximately 20 teachers from each school, 60 – 80 pupils from different cultural, social and historical backgrounds, parents, sports clubs, community centres and local communities.

Description of activities:
Activities in first year are focused to support healthy eating habits. Pupils will have the possibility to think about their eating habits, continuously, from gaining information to their evaluation, mutual comparison, to practical skills with the preparation of food. They should be able to implement these information and knowledge into the daily lives. Movement activities should bring pupils to the realization and desire to spend their free time with natural physical activities based on age group. Each activity shows pupils that they can be active part of it. We want to maximally diminish and erase prejudices and show that physically impaired don´t have to be necessarily excluded from the world of sport. We also want to support tolerance and equality in sports.

Methodology:
Project activities are divided into the specific phases – preparation for activity, realisation and monitoring, creation of the output, dissemination of results. Many activities will be realized with the use of ICT tools. Pupils will work in mixed international groups, dealing with fulfilment of more tasks (cooking of food, knowledge quiz, sports tournament, physical activities, art activities) while different mobilities.

Description of the results:
Result of this project are 8 main outputs – logo and webpage of the project, Erasmus + wall, brochure “ Traditional food healthier”, calendar, herbs garden, tea bags from herb garden, project dance “ HEAT” and 8 partial outputs – PP Presentations about the project, mind map “What do we know about healthy lifestyle”, 2 kinds of questionaires with evaluation, banner, balanced diet poster, food pyramid, materials dealing with Water day.

Expected impact:
We expect that participants of the project will understand and accept idea of an healthy lifestyle and that there be a will to apply knowledge into life, that they improve their language and ICT competencies, discover new cultures, understand what is tolerance and equality and that they improve cooperation skills. We suppose that our schools will gain prestige in the local area and that relationship between school and parents will improve.

Long-term benefits:
Project will serve as the tool of improvement and enrichment of usual school activities, also partly by the fact that project activities “ herb garden, production of tea bags from herb garden and cooking by healthier alternative” will be done even after the end of the whole project. Products will be offered within actions which are organized by city and school during the school year.

Project Website

http://heat.altervista.org/

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 23975 Eur

Project Coordinator

Zakladna skola, Ul. 17. novembra 31, Sabinov & Country: SK

Project Partners

• ISTITUTO COMPRENSIVO CREMONA UNO
• Publiczna Szkola Podstawowa nr 5 z Oddzialami Integracyjnymi im. Karola Musiola w Opolu