For early school education teachers - the project activities enrich the workshop of teachers in general early school education (grades 1 - 3, 6/7 - 10 years old) and nature teachers - to teach kids care of water resources and water fauna and flora, physical education teachers - create attractive and fun water sports activities and at the same time getting familiar with water and combating water fears, spend and make more outdoor activities at schools. For water sports clubs - to enrich clubs offer for schools and strengthen the collaboration between sectors - schools and sport clubs. Open the water sport clubs - sailing, rowing, kayaking etc - to school everyday or sporadic activities and include the activities in the school life and curriculum. The encouraged water sports and water activities to become a normal school day attractions and no only extracurricular activities - it may result in more kids attracted to the water sports as a collateral benefit. 3. For schools - to make the teachers work more attractive and motivate them by implementing more interesting tools in their work, enriching school offer for teachers as well as for students. Implementation: What activities did you implement in your project?
3 sailing clubs from Poland, Italy and Cyprus in collaboration with local schools were working together for 16 months to create an offer and collection of "on the water activities" that aimed to enrich school education by a variety of interesting outdoor activities. The school subjects that we influenced are: physical education, nature classes, general classes of early school education stage, strengthening soft skills. According to the interviews with school teachers in partner countries at the beginning of the project we aimed to answer the teachers needs: - teachers constantly looking for outdoor activities for their pupils and want them to stay active, have fun and learn some skills on the way, - all activities should have some educational purpose, - teachers want to feel safe taking kids outside and be sure that they "learn something”; - they are afraid of the weather conditions and the safety of the kids, so the activities have to be safe and have variety for different weather; - outdoor activities may be of use in the integration of new kids at classroom; - the activities should be inclusive; - appropriate for all kids, even with some disadvantages