BEING HEALTHY MAKES YOU WEALTHY is a Strategic Partnerships for school education written for students’ aged between 12 and 18 years old. Our partnership is aimed directly at teenagers with low healthy life education and indirectly to their families, at their teachers and their didactic training in health education teaching and the school administration. Within this primary target group there is a focus group included formed by overweight students’ taken into evidence, counselled and periodically “monitored”. Objectives: • The main objective of our project is to support through a collaborative learning the proper development of teenagers through the promotion of physical activity and healthy nutrition, emotional balance, the awareness and removal of health-risk behaviours and addictions, leading consequently to the most important wealth of a human being: a healthy lifestyle • To make pupils discover the advantages of practicing sports as leisure activity as, besides offering them health, they offer the proper occasion to socialize, to discover, appreciate and express themselves • To analyze the effects of body image on self-esteem and the relation between low self-esteem and different disorders, providing teenagers different ways to develop good self-esteem and keep a positive attitude • To combat health risk behaviours • To learn to tolerate each other as all students’, regardless their weight, will be valorised and encouraged to take part in partnership’s activities • To develop students’ digital skills • To develop students’, teachers' and participants' fluency in English • To make participants discover the diversity of the European environment • Through an exchange of best practices all partners will learn from one another best ways of being healthy, thus leading to the creation of new knowledge. TEACHERS taking part in training: • will learn how to increase student’ motivation towards health education • will benefit from the exchange of best practices with their colleagues from the other partner schools, taking advantage of their experience • will acquire new approaches of promoting health both in their teaching activities and in the extra-curricular ones Various approaches (round tables, seminars, hands-on workshops, lab experiments, videos, PPT presentations, movies but also short term exchanges of groups of pupils events will outline the 2 main outputs: • The curricular auxiliary BE HEALTHY! , a guide containing reference materials for teachers, activities for students’ and methodological teaching suggestions for health education presented on DVD to different topics • WORKOUT IS FUN – DVD and YouTube, a collection of videos with different types of physical exercises that can be made at home, addressing to different areas of the body, an educative video about the proper outfit when practicing sports and a short movie presenting NEW SPORTS NEXT DOOR As results, we expect: • to promote prevention instead of cure • to change old unhealthy mentalities, inspiring and motivating participants and also our communities to take long-term benefit of the outcomes of this project, making lifelong changes in their daily habits towards an active and balanced life • to raise students’ interest and motivation in getting involved in as many foreseen activities as possible, broadening their knowledge horizon • to boost students’ self-esteem (especially of overweight ones), making them proud of who they are, not the slaves of their body image • to develop teaching materials and approaches useful for the integration of health education in classes • to take measures in our schools, promoting healthy lifestyle • to spread our acquired knowledge to new generations of students’, making the project live long-time after its ending. Our target groups will find in our activities inspiration, conviction and motivation to continue having an active, balanced and healthy life even after the ending of our project.
BEING HEALTHY MAKES YOU WEALTHY was a Strategic Partnership for school education developed for students aged between 12 and 18 years old. Our partnership was aimed directly at teenagers with low healthy life conditions and indirectly at their families, their teachers and their didactic training in health education and the school administration. Within this primary target group there is a focus group included formed by overweight students taken into account, counselled and periodically “monitored” with modern technology. The main objective of our project was to support the development of teenagers towards the realisation of a healthy way of life by promoting physical activity, healthy nutrition and emotional balance within the frame of a collaborative learning. All this and the awareness and removal of health-risk behaviours and addictions is leading consequently to the most important wealth of a human being: a healthy lifestyle. Results of our project are: DVD work out is fun, a DVD that gives instructions on different training methods and student sports for students. The curricular auxiliary BE HEALTHY! is a collection of materials to be found on the various topics of a healthy live style for teachers. Other results include the changed health awareness of the students who participated. The intercultural acceptance as well as the language skills of the students have increased. The participating colleagues got to know different approaches to health education in exchange and they have developed long-term partnerships. Two partners of our project work together in the new EU project "My future life in a digital world". We spread our acquired knowledge to new generations of students’, making the project live long-time after its ending by creating and funding an advanced Sport course with project funds from our project. The students learned how to use new technology in sports and education, such as the Polar Loop to create more movement and a healthier lifestyle and the students learned to tolerate each other as all students’, regardless their weight, will be valorised and encouraged to take part in partnership’s activities. Especially we boosted students’ self-esteem (especially of overweight ones), making them proud of who they are, not the slaves of their body image by showing how hard they can work, as long as they are motivated. Our target groups found in our activities inspiration, conviction and motivation to continue having an active, balanced and healthy life even after the ending of our project The Teachers will educate for health new generations of students’, who will spread the information to their families and friends We'll continue attracting students’ in extra-curricular activities meant to promote healthy lifestyles.