"Let's get fit" programme

At the beginning of September 2013 the community of Szkoła Podstawowa nr 2 w Leżajsku (Leżajsk Primary School No. 2) launched a multilayered programme promoting fitness and a healthy lifestyle, prepared by a group of teachers from Lousada. The undertaking called Let’s get fit was aimed at children aged 6–15 and designed to improve their strength, endurance, speed, flexibility and coordination.

In the Leżajsk school the programme was implemented in two cycles (6 – 9-year-olds; 10 – 12-year-olds) in nine weeks – the activities were done during Physical Education lessons as well as extracurricular classes. The enterprise was successful, as demonstrated by the results of some standard fitness tests, which the pupils participating in the programme took straight after the completion of the task, compared to the results of these tests taken by the same children five months before. 

Except for developing their physical skills, the pupils also shaped a sense of self-esteem and got to know the rules of fair sports rivalry. The PE teachers supervising the whole enterprise decided to carry on with it and included its guidelines in their curricula for the following school term.

Here are some photos of the pupils from Leżajsk doing fitness activities:

Here are two videos on how the programme was implemented in Szkoła Podstawowa nr 2 w Leżajsku (Leżajsk Primary School No. 2):

 

 

Here is one out of three fitness lesson plans worked out by the teachers from Lousada:

"Beauty of the area we live in" competition

In October 2013 class 5b of Szkoła Podstawowa nr 2 w Leżajsku (Leżajsk Primary School No. 2) implementing one of the main objectives of the project ”Healthy kids – healthy school” – spreading the healthy lifestyle among young people – made a set of 10 pictures entitled “Co warto zobaczyć w Leżajsku” (“Places worth seeing in Leżajsk”) and submitted it to the photo competition “Nasza piękna okolica” (“Beauty of the area we live in”) organized as part of Poland’s nationwide campaign “Zachowaj Trzeźwy Umysł 2013” (”Keep a Sober Mind 2013”).

The pictures were taken by the pupils during some walking and biking tours around Leżajsk. The enterprise was for its attendants a great way of getting to know their home town better as well as going in for active tourism.

 

The photo set is available on slideshare.

Teachers' meeting in Lousada

The host of the fourth project teachers’ session, held in October 2013, was EB23 de Lousada – part of Agrupamento Vertical de Escolas Lousada Centro. During the meeting the representatives of the partner institutions gave feedback on trying out examples of “fair play practice” and the implementation of “Let’s get fit” programme. They also made specific arrangements on a new task - working out three recipes for healthy and tasty food, typical of each country involved in the project, and sending them to all other schools to try out.

Lousada - a general view

Lousada - the main square

EB23 de Lousada - the hall

EB23 de Lousada - the library

A workshop on the project activities

The participants of the session

While staying in Portugal the participants of the session had the opportunity to get to know what the Portuguese educational system is like (tours of pre-primary, primary and secondary schools, monitoring lessons, the pupils’ performances, a visit to the local teachers training centre, talks with the Mayor of Lousada) as well as broaden their knowledge about the geography, history and culture of Norte Region (guided tours around such places of interest as Oporto and Guimarães).

A visit to pre-primary classes

Guimarães - one of the main streets

Guimarães - the Palace of the Dukes of Braganza

Oporto - the old centre

Oporto - the city's main football stadium