Sport is not only football Erasmus Project

Project Title

Sport is not only football

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: Teaching and learning of foreign languages; Health and wellbeing; Early School Leaving / combating failure in education

Project Summary

Our project “Sport is not only football.” is a project based on the priorities ; tackling early school leaving,effective strategies for enhancing basic skills and contributing to the development of a European Area of Skills and Qualifications. Our previous successful experience about our students having absenteeism problems led us to such a project.

The questionnaire applied in our school revealed that most of the students do not have sports among their free-time activities. And few students only stated that they only played football.The academic anxiety and the intense interest in virtual free time activities depart students from sport. Although the sport has multi-benefits including health,quality time spending, avoidanance of drugs,smoking and alcohol,socialising the students, when it is not done regularly the expected impact will not be effective enough. Our project aimed to make schools more enjoyable places through sport. By making this we tried to form a portal where more students could find various sport facilities. The participation of the students in the activities via the project has improved their self-confidence,sport habit,fair-play,morality and health quality. This has made the students feel relaxed and happy at school. A happy and relaxed student is more optimist,and ,therefore, reflected this to his/her relations with his/her partners,friends and teachers.

The project applied two kinds of mobility; transnational meetings for only teachers and learning events involving the students and the teachers. We have realized hree transnational meetings. For each TPM, four teachers from Turkey,Poland,Bulgaria, three teachers from Romania and 1 teacher from Latvia participated in these mobilities. Teachers responsible for contact, budget control and time management, dissemination, and monitoring took part in these mobilities. The maximum attandence of students under a sattisfying accompanying has been crucial for us. Althoug we planned to involve 7 students and three teachers from each country, the budget regulation let 2 teachers. We have provided 48 students mobility; however, on the form it was 28 students. Economically disadvantaged students, and shy students, very hardworking students, very sportive students took part in these events. The sports gathered them under different flags. We cared about the language skills of the students. Those students having a pre-intermediate level of English was among our target group. They improved their speaking skills and their willingness for learning and practising English. Apart from acquiring valuable language and cultural knowledge, students of participating schools had a possibility to learn national sport disciplines, games and dances typical for participating countries. The music became a power to unite and socialise participators easily and faster. We succeded to promote sport and healthy lifestyle in our schools.

Our activities included outdoor and indoor activities. The clubs we founded at our scholls has been functioning actively to promote the students,the parents and the teachers to volunteer at the sport events. Our project activities involve the families as well,:however, the participation of familes was belove our expectations. But their support for students to take part in activites pleased us. Some activities like orienteering and baseball was very interesting for our students and the other participators. The traditional sports of the partner countries were also taught and performed in schools. Wrestling was the favourite of all other nations. Even the female students tried and enjoyed the excitement of that. All the participators loved traditional archery competitons held in Turkey and Poland. We provided a set of different activities for our students including swimming,winter sports and cycling. The interest of our female students and their parents’ support surprised us. They were very active in winter sports and cycling activites. Due to the wide range of sports,we succeded to attract many students to the fields,courts and gyms. The sports hour on thursday evenings took many of our students to school gym for different sports such as basketball, voleyball, badmington and free running.

During the implementation,evaluation,monitoring,dissemination and sustainability parts of the project, the partners followed each step of the project in a disciplined way. The project diary helped us do the activities properly. Our ‘ Must do list ” and “Participant Matrix” were strong indicators to analise the implementation of the project.

Our project enhanced healthy life conscious for the adults of future. The students found recreation fields.They had a fair-play soul.They enjoyed their school as it was a more enjoyable school. They didnt hesitate to come to school. The project socialised the shy students. Their self-confidence has increased.

To sum up, our project used different kinds of sport for multi-functional aims to serve for our students.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 147728 Eur

Project Coordinator

15 Temmuz Sehitler Anadolu Lisesi & Country: TR

Project Partners

• St. St. Cyril and Methodius high school of humanities
• Colegiul Tehnic Viceamiral Ioan Balanescu
• Adazu vidusskola
• I Liceum Ogolnoksztalcace