The “S.W.I.T.C.H. – Lifestyles” project is proposed by Furness Academy in partnership with two schools from Italy and Portugal and two expert partners, one tech partner (PONTO PR, from Portugal) and one QA partner (ProMETEUS from Italy). We moved from the recent data from the National Child Measurement Programme and NHS released in January 2018 that show that 33% of 10-11 students are obese or overweight: the highest proportion of the country, with Barrow leading the chart. The study identified a strong relationship between poverty and obesity: prevalence for children living in the most deprived areas was more than double that of those living in the least deprived areas. There's obviously healthy eating and exercise to consider, but also poverty, affordability, emotional health and wellbeing: there are many issues in the area that can all have an impact on the weight of children. Partners have identified Students wellbeing and health as Priority 1: benefits of good health in terms of a child's life, from mental wellbeing to physical activity, have an overall impact on students' longer term life chances. SWITCH pursues the following general objectives: - Support vulnerable students in personal development, promoting resilience and self-esteem through active life and healthy nutrition - improve the education on healthier food choices and physical activities at school, integrating the nutrition education aspects as part of the school curriculum - foster inclusion and healthy habits thanks to ICT and innovative practices and the following specific objectives: - empower educators and develop a tailored training course for P.E., Science/Nutrition teachers available on elearning modules - foster students leadership through the creation of SWITCH Peer Leaders in partner schools 3 Intellectual Outputs will be developed: IO1 – SWITCH Curriculum on 3 topics: Physical Education, Nutrition and Mental wellbeing. All the school teachers involved in the proposal will research on those topics, thus increasing their knowledge and exchanging good practices with their international colleagues. 6 Learning Units per branch to be developed and equipped with assessment grids, video tutorials, practical exercises, support material. The SWITCH Curriculum will include research-based content about the effective methods of changing health behaviours and will use web-based methods of knowledge transfer in support of health and physical education programs of study. IO2 – SWITCH App, with gamification components, for improving awareness, knowledge and skills of students on the need of acquiring a healthy lifestyle. The use of the SWITCH App will be widespread by the Peer Leaders: these are students with particular leadership skills who will be trained during the blended mobility in Portugal to support their classmates in using the App. Training Student Leader developing a targeted leadership programme for our vulnerable students on nutrition and mental wellness is identified as an effective strategy to reach pupils engagement. ICT, gamification and peer education are the right tools to raise students' interest and motivation. IO3 – SWITCH e-learning platform and training for secondary school teachers, open to non directly involved teachers and teachers coming from other non partner schools and countries. The platform will be interactive and task-based. 6 transnational project meetings are planned and will take place in UK, Portugal and Italy. They will have implementation and coordination purposes, quality assurance, and follow up of activities developed and plan for next steps. 3 LTTAs will be organized: one joint staff training event in the UK and 2 blended mobilities for the Peer Leaders, one in Italy and one in Portugal. Students aged 13/14 with low socio-economic status, P.E. and Science teachers as well as staff in charge of personal development are our main targets. Families and the whole teaching staff as secondary targets, too, to apply a whole family and whole school approach. The project involves 300 students who will benefit from the local activities. Among them, 24 will participate in the physical part of the blended mobilities. 20 professionals in the field of education participating in the Curriculum methodology and definition and 15 will put into practice the SWITCH training content. 180 students will participate in the SWITCH App game while 30 teachers non directly involved in the activities will attend our training course on the e-learning platform. At the end of SWITCH both teachers and organizations will have acquired several competences. A part from the IOs and the tangible outputs, learning outcomes will be reached on directly involved teachers, directly involved students who belong to Year 8 and 9, directly involved students who will play the role of Peer Leaders and participants in C2 and C3, partner organizations as a whole, both schools and expert partners, stakeholders and associated partners.
The “S.W.I.T.C.H. – Lifestyles” project was proposed by Furness Academy in partnership with two schools from Italy and Portugal and two expert partners, one tech partner (PONTO PR, from Portugal) and one QA partner (ProMETEUS from Italy). We moved from the data of the National Child Measurement Programme and NHS released in January 2018 which showed that 33% of 10-11 students are obese or overweight: the highest proportion of the country, with Barrow leading the chart. The study identified a strong relationship between poverty and obesity: prevalence for children living in the most deprived areas was more than double that of those living in the least deprived areas. There's obviously healthy eating and exercise to consider, but also poverty, affordability, emotional health and wellbeing: there were many issues in the area that can all have an impact on the weight of children. Partners have identified Students wellbeing and health as Priority 1: benefits of good health in terms of a child's life, from mental wellbeing to physical activity, had an overall impact on students' longer-term life chances. SWITCH pursued the following general objectives: - Support vulnerable students in personal development, promoting resilience and self-esteem through active living and healthy nutrition - improve the education on healthier food choices and physical activities at school, integrating the nutrition education aspects as part of the school curriculum - foster inclusion and healthy habits thanks to ICT and innovative practices and the following specific objectives: - empower educators and develop a tailored training course for P.E., Science/Nutrition teachers available on elearning modules - foster students leadership through the creation of SWITCH Peer Leaders in partner schools 3 Intellectual Outputs were developed: IO1 – SWITCH Curriculum on 3 topics: Physical Education, Nutrition and Mental wellbeing. All the school teachers involved in the proposal researched on those topics, thus increasing their knowledge and exchanging good practices with their international colleagues. 6 Learning Units per branch were developed and equipped with assessment grids, video tutorials, practical exercises, support material. The SWITCH Curriculum included research-based content about the effective methods of changing health behaviours and used web-based methods of knowledge transfer in support of health and physical education programs of study. IO2 – SWITCH App, with gamification components, for improving awareness, knowledge and skills of students on the need of acquiring a healthy lifestyle. The use of the SWITCH App was widespread by the Peer Leaders: these are students with particular leadership skills who were trained during the blended mobility in Portugal to support their classmates in using the App. Training Student Leader developed a targeted leadership programme for our vulnerable students on nutrition and mental wellness was identified as an effective strategy to reach pupils' engagement. ICT, gamification and peer education were the right tools to raise students' interest and motivation. IO3 – SWITCH e-learning platform and training for secondary school teachers, open to non directly involved teachers and teachers coming from other non-partner schools and countries. The platform was interactive and task-based. 6 transnational project meetings were planned and they took place in UK, Portugal and Italy. They had implementation and coordination purposes, quality assurance, and follow up of activities developed and plan for next steps. 3 LTTAs were organized: one joint staff training event in the UK and 2 blended mobilities for the Peer Leaders, one in Italy and one in Portugal. Students aged 13/14 with low socio-economic status, P.E. and Science teachers, as well as staff in charge of personal development, were our main targets. Families and the whole teaching staff as secondary targets, too, applied a whole family and whole-school approach. The project involved 300 students who benefited from the local activities. Among them, 24 participated in the physical part of the blended mobilities. 20 professionals in the field of education participating in the Curriculum methodology and definition and 15 have put into practice the SWITCH training content. 180 students participated in the SWITCH App game while 30 teachers non directly involved in the activities attended our training course on the e-learning platform. Both teachers and organizations acquired several competencies. Apart from the IOs and the tangible outputs, learning outcomes were reached on directly involved teachers, directly involved students who belonged to Year 8 and 9, directly involved students who played the role of Peer Leaders and participants in C2 and C3, partner organizations as a whole, both schools and expert partners, stakeholders and associated partners.