Background of the project: We discuss a lot about the problems which are related to the lack of regular sport activity as well as bad eating habits of pupils and youth that leads to the wrong lifestyle in general. Bad habits will negatively influence their future life and they can probably transfer on their kids in addition. Majority of them do not realize that the food they eat in the present moment really do have an impact on their physical health, impacts their psyche, concentration while learning and the quality of the given effort. It will also influence their future life (wellbeing, choice of profession and broad approach to the life itself). “Feel the HEAT – Healthy Eating Active Teens” is strategical partnership based on the cooperation of the three primary schools from Slovakia, Poland and Italy. We have created this project to contribute to the solution of serious social problem which affects all of us directly. We want to focus attention of pupils (and indirectly of their parents too) by the interesting activities mainly targeted on healthier lifestyle, done through physical activities and healthy choice of meals. Goals of the project: Main aim of the project is to reach pupils' awareness that unhealthy eating and lack of the physical activity have negative impact on the quality of life. Principles of healthy eating habits should be at least partly implemented into the daily lives of the pupils. Other goals are to motivate pupils: - to increase their interest about the English language through its practical use in real life context, - to use ICT reasonably - to explore new cultures, to realize similarities and differences and establish new contacts - to develop cooperation, to erase prejudices while working with disadvantaged pupils. Amount of the participants and their profile: This partnership includes approximately 20 teachers from each school, 60 – 80 pupils from different cultural, social and historical backgrounds, parents, sports clubs, community centres and local communities. Description of activities: Activities in first year are focused to support healthy eating habits. Pupils will have the possibility to think about their eating habits, continuously, from gaining information to their evaluation, mutual comparison, to practical skills with the preparation of food. They should be able to implement these information and knowledge into the daily lives. Movement activities should bring pupils to the realization and desire to spend their free time with natural physical activities based on age group. Each activity shows pupils that they can be active part of it. We want to maximally diminish and erase prejudices and show that physically impaired don´t have to be necessarily excluded from the world of sport. We also want to support tolerance and equality in sports. Methodology: Project activities are divided into the specific phases – preparation for activity, realisation and monitoring, creation of the output, dissemination of results. Many activities will be realized with the use of ICT tools. Pupils will work in mixed international groups, dealing with fulfilment of more tasks (cooking of food, knowledge quiz, sports tournament, physical activities, art activities) while different mobilities. Description of the results: Result of this project are 8 main outputs – logo and webpage of the project, Erasmus + wall, brochure “ Traditional food healthier”, calendar, herbs garden, tea bags from herb garden, project dance “ HEAT” and 8 partial outputs – PP Presentations about the project, mind map "What do we know about healthy lifestyle", 2 kinds of questionaires with evaluation, banner, balanced diet poster, food pyramid, materials dealing with Water day. Expected impact: We expect that participants of the project will understand and accept idea of an healthy lifestyle and that there be a will to apply knowledge into life, that they improve their language and ICT competencies, discover new cultures, understand what is tolerance and equality and that they improve cooperation skills. We suppose that our schools will gain prestige in the local area and that relationship between school and parents will improve. Long-term benefits: Project will serve as the tool of improvement and enrichment of usual school activities, also partly by the fact that project activities “ herb garden, production of tea bags from herb garden and cooking by healthier alternative” will be done even after the end of the whole project. Products will be offered within actions which are organized by city and school during the school year.
The "Feel the HEAT - Healthy Eating Active Teens" project was a strategic partnership based on the cooperation of three primary schools from Slovakia, Poland and Italy. We created the project in order to point out at and to participate in solution of a serious and still a current social issue – problems connected with the lack of regular sports activities, as well as inappropriate eating habits of pupils and youth, eventually leading to their inappropriate lifestyle. The majority of us doesn’t realise that everything we eat affects our physical health, our psyche, our concentration and quality of our performance. Our aim was to draw pupils’ attention – and indirectly that of their parents as well – to benefits of a healthy lifestyle thanks to a healthier meals choice and appropriate physical activities. The main aim of the project was to make pupils aware of the fact that the food received and lack of exercise affect the quality of their life in a negative way, and to adopt – partially, at least - the principles of a healthy lifestyle. Another aim was to motivate pupils to a deeper interest in the English language through its practical use in actual situations, to a meaningful use of ICT, to get to know new cultures, to be aware of similarities and differences and to make new contacts, to develop cooperation and to break down prejudices during co-working with disabled pupils. During the duration of the project we carried out three educational activities in person and two activities virtually because of the Covid-19 global pandemic. We created several outputs. Activities in the first year were oriented at promoting healthier eating. Starting from information gathering, through its evaluation, mutual comparison up to practical experience with food preparation, pupils could think about their eating habits and try to implement the acquired knowledge and experience into their everyday lives. The activities in the second year of the project should have encouraged pupils to spend their free time on physical activities natural to their age. Individual activities should have proved pupils that everyone could participate. We wanted to help with elimination of prejudices, to prove that the disabled don’t have to be excluded from the sports life and to support tolerance and equity in sports. In addition to planned project activities we also carried out local activities aimed at promotion and dissemination of the project, for example in Slovakia during the Open Door Day for future pupils and their parents, during the local Autumn Cultural Festival, the project promotion on the Polish Radio Opole, making fruit cocktails for pupils during breaks or spreading the ideas of the project by Italian pupils within schools in their city. The final joint activity with the AnswerGarden platform is also worth mentioning, in which pupils reflected the activities they had experienced during the project. Within its duration the project was employed by teachers as a tool for enrichment of common school activities. The materials created could be used – and can be used in future – also by teachers from other schools. Several outputs found its use as a material for the project promotion and dissemination. The project activities like “the herb garden, making tea bags from the herb garden, cooking according to a recipe booklet, materials for the Water Day…” are of long-term use and can be applied as tools for keeping the idea of the project in minds of pupils, parents, teachers and a wider public.