Our project, „Healthyland”, proposes the experience exchange between 6 educational institutions in order to raise awareness on the necessity of sports and healthy food starting from a young age. The general objective is take our children to the world of health – physical and mental, through different games, plays, meetings with interesting people and especially sharing knowledge and experience. Also important thing for us is to develop the cooperation with the parents because without their support, all the activities of the project will have a very brief impact. The target group of the project consists of 35 teachers and 1050 children enrolled in six participating institutions and their parents.Through its activities, our project promotes a healthier lifestyle, proposes diverse opportunities to practice sports in a fun way for the children, alternative ways of spending free time, offers practical solutions for parents to introduce a healthy diet in their kids eating habits.The project will be implemented during 2 years, from September 2016 to August 2018.The activities in the first year of the project focuse on the healthy eating habits and in the second year we are going to concentrate on sports and physical activity. The main activities carried on will be: • Children and teachers will communicate with partner kindergartens in order to exchange the information and monitor the progress towards the project activities.• Exchange of the experience and good practice.• Creating the digital materials and other educational ones ( posters, leaflets, website etc.).• Artistic and sports classes included music, art, drama and dance.• Cooking activities for children and parents.• Meetings with interesting people ( confectioner, dietician, baker, doctor, sportperson etc.).• Peerlearning – children will teach, instruct each others in case of different activities.• Exchanging the good practice with the locals ( meetings, project newspaper, events etc.).• Trips to some places in the city/town, which are crucial for the project implementation ( Stadiums, fruit gardens, baker’s etc.).• Joint activities. All the partners who take part in the project have got the same goal and their vision of the problem is similar. We are planning 3 translational meetings, during which the seminars, training courses and other works connected with the project activities will be held. All the participants will be able to learn more about culture of the partner countries. Apart from the meetings, we are going to take part in two LTT activities, one webinar and communicate using all the available internet tools. Parental engagement is strongly seen as virtual for enhancing healthy child development and learning. Also, research has shown that parental engagement with ECEC is strongly associated with children’s later academic success, socio-emotional development and adaptation in society. Thanks to the regular cooperation with the parents, they will have the opportunity to broaden their minds in these particular subjects and it will make motivating and supporting their children easier. Furthermore, this project also consists of an important role performing outdoor activities, visit and work in gardens and sports activities to relate what they learned in the workshops with outputs and activities outside the usual workplace, allowing this development and revitalization of pupils and collaborating institutions in the project.The project will help teachers to raise the level of the education through gaining and sharing the experience, learning new methods and techniques and making them use of the different approaches in education. The methodology that we will use, will be participatory, dynamic and fostering creativity. For this reason, all the participants will do role play, theater forum, debates, presentations, etc. It will increase and develop our competence of foreign language communication and all of us will be able to practice ICT skills in a more active way. Sharing all our experience with the locals, we hope that this project will enable us to raise wise and healthy young people. Our general objectives are: - to promote a healthy lifestyle for pupils who are in ECEC.- to foster a sense of European citizenship. -to help participants to develop a brighter and international perspective on education,- to reframe a vision and a school policy plan in order to be a healthy person,-to provide opportunities to the participants to gain experience, knowledge and improving approaches to teaching and school management practices,-to improve efficiency and effectiveness in developing E.U. Projects,-to enhance and increase school partnerships across the EU,-to enhance the quality and European dimension of teacher training,-to support innovative ICT-baseCreating this project, we had in our minds Karen Horney's words: "Don't teach a tree how to grow. Just give him the sun, the soil and water".
Our Healthyland project included an exchange of experiences between 6 educational institutions to raise awareness of the need to practice sport and healthy nutrition from an early age. The overall goal was to implement and encourage our children to a healthy lifestyle, both in the physical and mental spheres, through various games, games, meetings with interesting people, and especially sharing knowledge and experience. Our general goals were to promote a healthy lifestyle and to develop a sense of belonging to the European community and its values. The target group of the project consisted of 35 teachers and 1050 children enrolled in six participating institutions and their parents. Thanks to the implemented activities, our project promoted a healthy lifestyle, promoted various sports opportunities in an attractive form for children and alternative ways of spending free time. He offered practical solutions for parents on how to introduce a healthy diet and change the children's eating habits. The project was implemented for two years from September 2016 to August 2018. Activities in the first year of the project focused on healthy nutrition and changing children's eating habits, and the second year of the project concerned sport and physical activity. Our activities included culinary classes for children and parents, meetings with interesting people (confectioner, dietitian, baker, doctor, sportsman, etc.). Educational, artistic and sports activities used music, art, theater and dance. The project promoted sport as a form of shared, interesting time spent with the family, among others through sport picnics for children and parents.In addition, digital materials and other educational materials were created, such as: posters, leaflets, website, etc. Excursions in interesting places that were crucial during the project implementation (gyms, fitness club, bakeries, fairs, etc.). The activities carried out by teachers influenced the children's active acquisition of knowledge and gave children the opportunity to learn from each other. The project was promoted to residents in the form of meetings, project newsletters, events - sports and culinary picnics, etc. Children and teachers communicated with partner kindergartens to exchange information and monitor progress in project activities. Three international project meetings took place, during which demonstration classes were carried out as part of the exchange of good practices and others from project activities. All participants got acquainted with the culture of partner countries. In addition, we participated in two seminars LTT "Steps to Healthyland", "The risk of a poor diet and lack of physical activity" and one webinar: "Mountain kindergarten as an effective form of physical activity and health way of life". Communication between partners was carried out with the help of available internet tools. The project helped teachers to raise the level of education by gaining and sharing experience, learning new methods and techniques, and using different approaches in education. The methods that we used were of participatory, dynamic and creative nature. Therefore, all participants took part in: debates, presentations, meetings, educational and promotional activities, etc. It increased and developed our competence of foreign language . It was also important for us to develop cooperation with parents in order to promote the proper development of the child and the learning process. The involvement of parents helped to influence the educational success of children, their social and emotional development and change habits related to a healthy lifestyle. Thanks to constant cooperation with parents, they had the opportunity to broaden their knowledge about a healthy lifestyle, which facilitated motivating and supporting their children. Thanks to this cooperation and the support of parents, the impact of the project on children has a long-term impact. International cooperation has allowed to strengthen the partnership between educational institutions participating in the project. This has improved the quality of teacher education and the effectiveness of teaching. The project helped in gaining experience, knowledge and improving the quality of approach to the practice of managing an educational institution.