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Eat Compete Get Fit was a cross-curricular project combining Sports, Health, Nutrition, Food preparation, English, Statistics, Media production, ICT, Statistics subjects.The idea behind it was to tackle bad eating habits, lack of regular physical activity, poor body image with the help of activities designed to help students overcome their social obstacles and health problems. The project aimed changing attitude towards regular physical activity and healthy eating habits, changing attitude towards cultural differences, increasing communication skills in English, increasing ICT skills, increasing data collection and assessment skills, fostering entrepreneurship skills in different business areas, strengthening the profiles of teachers in areas such as cross-curricular teaching, content and language integrated learning. The participants were students and teachers of the partner schools.We conducted a questionnaire for participant selection and formed a student group with 20 pupils in our schools totalling 120 students.The student participants were selected from poor eating and physical activity habits, low body image perception and basic communication skills in English.There were participants with fewer opportunities among the student participants.We also formed a core project group consisting of 4 teachers from each school.The activities were planned with the core project group.We planned a monthly study schedule starting with project corners at our schools and 1- or 2-hour sessions monthly with student project group.We started the project activities with the kick-off meeting in Turkey where we discussed the implementation of the project as well as a detailed plan of the whole project.In this meeting the coordinating school hosted some model activities and we decided to implement Nutrition Friendly School Initiative at our schools.LTT activities were designed for student and teacher participants separately.In the 1st LTT to Hungary, we studied the Importance of healthy eating and physical activity on recovery and rehabilitation with student participants and Basic Life support and emergency care workshop for teacher participants.We had a food day at school where all the students from Hungarian school could taste and learn about the traditional food of partner countries.We learnt about Hungarian cuisine, thermal water benefits and medical herbs.In the 2nd LTT to Italy we studied job opportunities in wellness sector with student participants and had a seminar on physical activity and wellness with teacher participants.We joined Rimini Wellness fair and shared the results of the surveys and met with the president of city council as well as members of NGOs working with similar aims with the project.We had workshops for food preparation and physical exercise activities.After that we had our second TPM in Italy to check the progress of the project.We controlled the checklists and did a SWOT analysis of the project.In the 3rd LTT to Greece we studied positive body image and beauty health with student participants and had a lecture on psychological aspect of health for teacher participants.We visited tobacco museum and presented the results of tobacco use survey.We had workshops on beauty health In the 4th LTT to Poland we studied how to record your healthy lifestyle with student participants and ways to integrate CLIL method on physical activity, health and wellness with teacher participants.We worked on smoking and drinking habits and prepared an anti-smoking campaign.We watched theatrical performance about addictions.We had and active workshop on Nordic walking.In the 5th LTT to Germany we studied Healthy eating habits with student participants and had a course on the use of twinspace and lo-net2.de for teacher participants.We participated in cheese, bread making workshops and visited an organic mineral water factory.At the end of the project we reached our objectives especially in forming a healthy eating habit and regular physical activity habit.They also developed their communication skills in English, data collection and assessment skills, ICT skills, problem solving, presentation, decision making, conflict management, creativity and team work skills.Teacher participants developed their professional skills such as cross-curricular lesson planning, CLIL method, helping shy and introvert pupils.The project had impact on students at partner schools; as they worked together on tasks such as survey conducting, teachers at partner schools as they had some seminars together and prepared lesson plans together.It also had impact on schools regarding the institutional development as they applied Nutrition Friendly School Initiative introduced by WHO.It had impact on local society with the dissemination activities on newspapers and local media websites.It had impact on the policy makers as we had meetings with them.The partner schools promised to organize #19MaySportsDay activities after the project completion
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