- Get to know the different possibilities of including the content of sports and healthy living in lessons. - Increase the quality of reading lessons by introducing more interesting and effective teaching methods based on interactivity. - Create materials based on the learning model of incorporating elements of sports and healthy living into reading lessons and broader art education. - Present the learning model to the national and international professional public as an innovative example of good practice, which emphasizes the importance of movement and lessons outside the classroom and at the same time develops reading literacy, social sensitivity and raises the level of cultural awareness at school and in the wider local environment. - Encourage teachers for international cooperation, strengthen their linguistic and intercultural competences. - Encourage intercultural dialogue, awareness of cultural diversity in the European area. - Spread awareness of the common European identity and strengthen the need for active citizenship. - Contribute to the sustainable development of students, the school and the local community, in such a way that the reading and sports culture is internalized as a lifelong hobby.
In recent years, our school has been faced with poor reading literacy and culture at all levels of schooling. This is reflected in the decline in the number of participants in the Reading Badge and in the poor results of reading literacy at the national exams. On the other hand, we have a very well-functioning sports activity, with high number of participating students and achievements at the national level. We are aware of the importance of both areas: sport and a healthy life as the basis for a happy individual and a successful society, reading competences as key to personal development, language confidence, (inter)cultural awareness, critical thinking. We decided to use modern didactic methods to effectively intertwine both areas: sports enthusiasm and reading lessons, cultural openness and sports. We wanted to explore various possibilities of combining reading and sports in the educational content. Cross-curricular integration of sports and art activities is poorly developed in Slovenia, so we wanted to get examples from abroad, develop the system at the school level and present it to the wider Slovenian professional public. At the same time, get to know institutions from abroad for further international cooperation.