Fit for School – Fit for Life Erasmus Project

Project Title

Fit for School – Fit for Life

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; Social/environmental responsibility of educational institutions; Pedagogy and didactics

Project Summary

The early acquisition of healthy and correct lifestyles has a significant effect on the health of our pupils. The school plays a fundamental role in the transmission of knowledge in a homogeneous way between pupils and through them reaches all the families of the community. In this way, the school can promote a culture of “well-being” and healthy lifestyles that can improve the quality of life of our students right away, but also influence their future choices.This is the main idea of ​​the “Fit for School-Fit for Life” project.
The project has tried to develop the fundamental competences of all the people involved, the social inclusion and the training of teachers through exchange and comparison, developing the theme of “well-being” from many points of view.
Teams of students aged between 9 and 15 from partner schools and their teachers were involved. On some occasions, such as the events open to the whole community that each partner school has tried to organize especially during the mobilities, all pupils and teachers of the schools have been involved, often also families and officials of education and administration.
Numerous activities were organized in individual schools to prepare students for events where they would collaborate online. In this way the students presented themselves to the meetings prepared and competent, making an efficient and effective contribution to the elaboration of the materials and contents provided. All the distant exchange took place through our Twinspace, which has increasingly become our virtual classroom, especially after the lockdown in March 2020. We used the “Chatroom” to communicate, the “Twinboard” and the “Forum” to express our opinions on some key issues of the project, the “Survey” to vote together and choose the best solutions, the “Blog” to tell us about the events of our daily life that were relevant to the project, the “Videoconference” for our online meetings and the “Pages” in which to collect the phases / activities of the project and contribute to the group work.
An “Excercise Calendar” was created to hang in each class with simple and short physical activities to be done before or after each lesson for the relaxation of the students, after a long time spent sitting at the desk or to promote concentration before a test. Progressive advertising spots or photo stories have been developed in favour of Fair Play and inclusive sport, including for people with disabilities or disadvantages, and against cyberbullying. We proposed to the students to create a theatrical text on juvenile distress; each partner school wrote a part of the text in the Twinspace while the final and title were proposed by all four schools together and with online voting on the Twinspace, the most captivating ending and title were chosen. The original idea was to bring the play on stage during the last mobility in Austria. Because of the pandemic we had to cancel the last mobility in person and turn it into a virtual activity, we chose to create a cartoon to build together online. The cartoon “Just one click” can be found on the FB eTwinning page of Trentino Alto Adige and on the FB page of Europedirect Trento. We wrote an online magazine together during the lockdown, to tell about our life during that difficult period.
At each mobility the students challenged each other in the “Olympic Games”, in which the teams had to compete in games of physical skill or cunning. The fourth round of the “Olympic Games” was cancelled due to force majeure and transferred online.
The kids experimented with new sports, met experts who made them reflect on the correct posture to keep during their study, on the principles of healthy eating and on the risks of cyberbullying and addiction.
Many teachers of the partner schools collaborated in the realization of the didactic activities and some teachers visited the partner schools for a short period of job shadowing to find out more about different teaching methods and compare and contrast them with the ones used back home. Watching best-practice examples in various subjects and classes improved the teachers’ competences and skills.
All the materials produced and the documentation of the salient events are accessible in our Twinspace and on the school homepages of all partner schools.
Among the most significant long-term benefits, we highlight the development of the fundamental skills of future European citizens through comparison with different cultures and traditions, the improvement of the linguistic and digital skills of students and teachers, the acquisition of useful information and experiences to improve well-being at home and at school. Teachers have acquired new teaching methods that favour collaboration and teamwork, putting the interests of all those involved as a group in the foreground rather than that of the individual, developing a flexible curriculum that facilitates the inclusion and individualisation of the curriculum.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 90396,99 Eur

Project Coordinator

Istituto Comprensivo Folgaria Lavarone Luserna & Country: IT

Project Partners

• Ridala Põhikool
• Neue Mittelschule Haiming
• Instituto Secular “Hijas de la Natividad de María” – CPR Nuestra Sra del Carmen
• HIGHGATE PRIVATE SCHOOL LIMITED