The project joins five primary schools from five countries: Czech Republic, Finland, Poland, Spain, UK. They are of a similar character - small schools active in international cooperation and project work.Our project deals with the idea of Olympic games: healthy mind in a healthy body, international cooperation, tolerance. Our objective is to promote students’ physical, psychological, social, and ethical growth and well-being. We want to reach these objectives by a common work focused on sport activities. By working on Olympic games we will touch various themes that are important for understanding today´s world: national symbols, disabled people, harmony of the soul, geography of Europe, healthcare etc. We will get acquianted with the facts and work with them in a creative way. The project will develop positive attitudes toward fitness and nutrition, emotional and physical health. The students will learn about the relationship between mind and body as well as develop a better understanding of their personal power. The development of a positive body image, awareness of stress management including growth and development, relaxation activities, physical strengthening, sports, and games are also part of the program. The other very important objective of the project is the international cooperation. Children will experience cooperation and communication with people from different countries. The project will also improve communication skills in real situations. It will show the importance of the English language as an international language and raise the motivation for learning English. Mobilities make a very important part of the project. The experience of contact with a foreign country as a guest as well as a host is irreplaceable. The meetings (student exchanges together with teacher training events) will take place in each partner school. During the meetings we will practise sports in international teams. Children will have the opportunity to feel team spirit, cooperate. Even if not all pupils can take part in the student exchanges they will profit from hosting children from partner schools. The project work will increase the ICT knowledge and skills. Children will use blog and e-Twinning for their communication. Children will experience group work, project work. The cooperation will also involve parents in the school life, introduce environmental and multicultural European dimension in the families and the local community.
The project joined five primary schools from five countries: Czech Republic, Finland, Poland, Spain, UK. They are of a similar character - small schools active in international cooperation and project work. Our project dealt with the idea of Olympic games: healthy mind in a healthy body, international cooperation, tolerance. Our objective was to promote students’ physical, psychological, social, and ethical growth and well-being. We wanted to reach these objectives by common work focused on sport activities. By working on Olympic games we touched various themes that are important for understanding today´s world: national symbols, disabled people, harmony of the soul, geography of Europe, healthcare etc. Children got acquianted with the facts and worked with them in a creative way. The project developed positive attitudes toward fitness and nutrition, emotional and physical health. The students learnt about the relationship between mind and body as well as a better understanding of their personal power. The development of a positive body image, awareness of stress management, relaxation activities, physical strengthening, sports, and games were also part of the program. The other very important objective of the project was the international cooperation. Children could experience cooperation and communication with people from different countries. The project also improved communication skills in real situations. It showed the importance of the English language as an international language and raised the motivation for learning English. Mobilities made a very important part of the project. The experience of contact with a foreign country as a guest as well as a host was irreplaceable. During the meetings we practised sports in international teams. Children had the opportunity to feel team spirit, cooperate. Even if not all pupils could take part in the student exchanges they profited from hosting children from partner schools. The meetings (student exchanges together with teacher training events) should have taken place in each partner school. Unfortunately the implementation of the project was influenced by the Covid situation. Two meetings could not be realized even if the project was prolonged. The activities that should have taken place during the meetings were replaced by similar activities and carried out individually in partner schools. All activities results were shared by the project blog and e-Twinning project. The project work increased ICT knowledge and skills. Children experienced group work, project work. The cooperation also involved parents in the school life, introduced environmental and multicultural European dimension in the families and the local community. It raised the prestige of the partner schools.