About project
Our project
aims to combine the importance of sports, the knowledge and appreciation of the+
arts and a healthy lifestyle with an emphasis on healthy eating. We will go through different activities to
manage our goals of promoting healthy life style, attaining from our partners
new ways of learning about how we spend our free time in a meaningful way and
widening our horizons. We will start with understanding where we all are as
individual countries at the beginning of our two year cooperation and then
evaluate the similarities and differences after two years. The precise mixture
of academic learning, practical training, artistic experience and final Olympic
Games in Greece has brought us to our project name Healthy Learning, Healt
Philosophy
The choice of
topic for our project has been considered very carefully. Each country involved
has confirmed its interested in without the need to consider their location
whether it be city, town or village.
Nowadays as
people’s lifestyles become more and more passive and food products are
processed and contain less nutritional value, it is crucial to consciously
choose a healthy lifestyle. This awareness is what most European countries have
in common. Each country however, has its own way of promoting sport, physical
exercise and has a particular idea for a healthy diet.
Our aim is to
become familiar with the variety of solutions used in the countries
participating in the project and to decide on common and best ideas. We want to
instill into young people the need to spend free time actively and the
importance of the choices they make in the way they feed themselves.
Sport and its
benefits should be taught early. Throughout childhood and adolescence, sport
positively influences the physical and social development of a child. It
promotes social rules that benefits community life.
We are
concerned that teenagers nowadays do not spend their free time actively and
positively. Physical exercise is not particularly popular amongst young people
in many of our countries. Fewer and fewer children take part in after-school
sport clubs. The most popular way of spending spare time is watching
television, playing on a computer or surfing the net. According to the
developmental tests performed in our schools, defects like curvature of the
spine, protruding shoulder blades, obesity, sight defects occur more regularly.
Sport
promotes a desired behaviour; it shapes character and improves the holistic
condition of a person. By practising sport we introduce a lot of important values:
tolerance, team spirit, a sense of justice and strength of character. That is
why sport is crucial in bringing up children. Fitness enables people to take
part in games and play, which brings not only health benefits but also joy and
entertainment. Defeating one's weakness improves self-confidence.
Our goal is
to arouse students’ interest in their fitness, shape and consolidate habits of
systematic improving and controlling their condition. We will familiarize
children with positive images of spending free time and try to develop
children’s attitude and independence. We want to give them an opportunity to
plan, choose and take part in sports activities and to instill the rules of
‘fair play’. We believe that our actions will help to shape conscious decisions
within our children.
It is
important for us to create the necessary conditions to develop students’
sporting interests, take them seriously and to ensure that sport and diet are
as important as gaining knowledge. They will then understand that their
lifestyle may have an impact on their future.
Our aim is to
find common solutions related to healthy lifestyle and to prevent current
common behaviour. We hope that our students’ knowledge will be increased by new
information about healthy meals, ways of preparing them and actively spending
free time in our partners’ countries.
The project
should also raise awareness for a healthy lifestyle amongst the school
community (students, parents and teachers).
All the
products of the project will be presented on a website promoting healthy
lifestyle. This will be created through the co-operation of the project schools
from different European countries. The website will include multimedia
presentations and a film depicting the results of our work and “making-of”
documentaries.
The website
will then be produced jointly during visits to each of the participating
schools but also during normal school activities.
Moreover,
there will be a forum on our home page for further cooperation between partner
countries. This will provide a platform for ongoing communication between the
schools.