Eat-Compete-Get fit is a cross-curricular project integrating healthy eating habits, sports, language, ICT, survey planning and assessment topics. Its aim is to overcome bad eating habits, lack of physical exercise, poor body image perception and socially isolated pupils through activities related to healthy eating, sports, wellness and beauty. The idea behind the project is a common concern about health problems and obesity. According to the statistical data we are becoming fatter and less physically active. These problems threaten the future of every country in the EU with a lot of side effects such as increase in medical costs, socially and psychologically isolated people. This project aims to help a hundred participants directly. The participants are students with weight problems, poor body image perceptions and who are physically inactive. The teachers of the participants will be supported with lectures, seminars and workshops respectively. We have a set of aims which can be achieved by following simple steps. These aims are: - changing attitude towards regular physical activity and healthy eating habits - Changing attitude towards cultural differences - Increasing communication skills in a foreign language - Increasing ICT skills - Increasing data collection and assessment skills - fostering entrepreneurship skills in different business areas - strengthening the profiles of teachers in areas such as cross-curricular teaching, content and language integrated learning We are going to achieve these aims by: -organizing events for sportive activities including fit walking-trekking-boat racing -organizing events for cooking healthy meals -organizing events for psychological aspect of poor body image caused by overweight - organizing mobility for a multicultural environment - organizing surveys and assessing them in a multinational student platform - preparing presentations and presenting them - organizing excursions to international fairs and well-known producers - organizing seminars, lectures, workshops for both teachers and students First we set our scope and defined the problem. We looked for partners who are experienced and willing to work together to achieve the objectives above. We distributed the tasks and got feedback from our partners. Each partner will work on the problem within their area of expertise. Thus we will reach our goals with an inductive method. We will have 2 transnational project meetings to ensure quality and the proper progress of the project. We will have 5 learning teaching training activities which are essential in solving the problem of the project. The activities include sportive events such as horse riding, dragon boat racing, fit walking, orienteering; healthy eating activities such as cooking healthy-organic dishes, preparing national food tables; visiting different businesses and visiting a fair to promote entrepreneurship; meeting with dieticians and recording videos about healthy eating, overcoming with negative body image perception. We will have 5 joint staff training events to strengthen the teachers profile on CLIL, cross curricular methods as well as seminars on dealing with socially isolated pupils. We will evaluate the progress of participants and project by making use of pre and post-tests. With the help of this project we will have qualitative and quantitative improvements on participants such as a positive attitude towards healthy eating and regular physical exercise as well as their friends and families respectively. Participants knowledge and experience in communication in a foreign language, ICT skills, data collection and assessment skills will increase. They will develop their problem solving, presentation, decision-making, conflict management, creativity, team-work and solidarity skills. Teacher participants will develop their professional knowledge on cross-curricular teaching methods, content and language integrated learning, dealing with shy introvert students especially if they have a negative body image perception due to being overweight. This project will help participants in the long term by developing respectful citizens to other cultures, awareness on the economic burden of insufficient physical activity and bad eating habits as well as improving them in terms of employability and entrepreneurship.
Eat Compete Get Fit was a cross-curricular project combining Sports, Health, Nutrition, Food preparation, English, Statistics, Media production, ICT, Statistics subjects.The idea behind it was to tackle bad eating habits, lack of regular physical activity, poor body image with the help of activities designed to help students overcome their social obstacles and health problems. The project aimed changing attitude towards regular physical activity and healthy eating habits, changing attitude towards cultural differences, increasing communication skills in English, increasing ICT skills, increasing data collection and assessment skills, fostering entrepreneurship skills in different business areas, strengthening the profiles of teachers in areas such as cross-curricular teaching, content and language integrated learning. The participants were students and teachers of the partner schools.We conducted a questionnaire for participant selection and formed a student group with 20 pupils in our schools totalling 120 students.The student participants were selected from poor eating and physical activity habits, low body image perception and basic communication skills in English.There were participants with fewer opportunities among the student participants.We also formed a core project group consisting of 4 teachers from each school.The activities were planned with the core project group. We planned a monthly study schedule starting with project corners at our schools and 1- or 2-hour sessions monthly with student project group.We started the project activities with the kick-off meeting in Turkey where we discussed the implementation of the project as well as a detailed plan of the whole project.In this meeting the coordinating school hosted some model activities and we decided to implement Nutrition Friendly School Initiative at our schools.LTT activities were designed for student and teacher participants separately.In the 1st LTT to Hungary, we studied the Importance of healthy eating and physical activity on recovery and rehabilitation with student participants and Basic Life support and emergency care workshop for teacher participants.We had a food day at school where all the students from Hungarian school could taste and learn about the traditional food of partner countries.We learnt about Hungarian cuisine, thermal water benefits and medical herbs.In the 2nd LTT to Italy we studied job opportunities in wellness sector with student participants and had a seminar on physical activity and wellness with teacher participants.We joined Rimini Wellness fair and shared the results of the surveys and met with the president of city council as well as members of NGOs working with similar aims with the project.We had workshops for food preparation and physical exercise activities.After that we had our second TPM in Italy to check the progress of the project.We controlled the checklists and did a SWOT analysis of the project.In the 3rd LTT to Greece we studied positive body image and beauty health with student participants and had a lecture on psychological aspect of health for teacher participants.We visited tobacco museum and presented the results of tobacco use survey.We had workshops on beauty health In the 4th LTT to Poland we studied how to record your healthy lifestyle with student participants and ways to integrate CLIL method on physical activity, health and wellness with teacher participants.We worked on smoking and drinking habits and prepared an anti-smoking campaign.We watched theatrical performance about addictions.We had and active workshop on Nordic walking.In the 5th LTT to Germany we studied Healthy eating habits with student participants and had a course on the use of twinspace and lo-net2.de for teacher participants.We participated in cheese, bread making workshops and visited an organic mineral water factory. At the end of the project we reached our objectives especially in forming a healthy eating habit and regular physical activity habit.They also developed their communication skills in English, data collection and assessment skills, ICT skills, problem solving, presentation, decision making, conflict management, creativity and team work skills.Teacher participants developed their professional skills such as cross-curricular lesson planning, CLIL method, helping shy and introvert pupils. The project had impact on students at partner schools; as they worked together on tasks such as survey conducting, teachers at partner schools as they had some seminars together and prepared lesson plans together.It also had impact on schools regarding the institutional development as they applied Nutrition Friendly School Initiative introduced by WHO.It had impact on local society with the dissemination activities on newspapers and local media websites.It had impact on the policy makers as we had meetings with them.The partner schools promised to organize #19MaySportsDay activities after the project completion