Miesiąc: czerwiec 2021

Earth Day

What’s the point of taking care of your health if you live in the world on the edge? The last year showed us clearly that our well-being is tightly intertwined with the condition of our planet. We have faced the climate crisis and only changing our attitudes, which requires persistent action on many fronts, can prevent the worst crisis. The number of people, teenagers among them, who consider the environmental issues as stressful and threatening their own survival, is increasing all the time. All the teachers had an opportunity to use resources, such as live talks, presentations, videos, lesson plans or games which our team collected on one common platform. Our activities aimed at raising awareness of human destructive behavior included: 

  • Lessons focused on discussing steps we ourselves can take to protect the Earth resources
  • Discussing ways of implementing changes in our families
  • Brainstorming ideas on how to inspire others 
  • Writing down commitments 
  • Contests of knowledge
  • Calculating our carbon prints
  • Making recycled toys 
  • Games, quizzes, making posters 

‘Every one of us needs a healthy Earth to support our jobs, livelihoods, health & survival, and happiness. A healthy planet is not an option — it is a necessity’ (by EARTHDAY.ORG) https://view.genial.ly/607bfa2d33338f0d2474e48a/presentation-earth-day-4-5 https://view.genial.ly/607b28786dd96a0d4b4b5596/presentation-earth-day-6

You were born to be a player

A Frog’s guide to mindfulness

For people who practice sport on a daily basis, as they do in our school, motivation is the vital element which pushes them forward. It is a key factor which helps them to fulfill their potential. This time we invited a psychologist from Gdansk Universityof Physical Education and Sport, Dominika Wilczyńska, who conducted a lecture for parents of young sportsmen to help them understand the complexity of motivational techniques.

Parents were told how to help their children:

  • Practice mindfulness 
  • Manage psychological pressure
  • Set achievable long-term goals 
  • Find a sense in repeating mundane drills
  • Overcome feelings of incompetence 
  • Come to terms with the failure 
  • Find and establish relation between their behavior and expected outcome 
  • Define challenges which will stretch them a little bit further than they have been stretched previously. 

All the parents taking part in the workshops found the tips useful and convenient. They asked many practical questions about positive self-talk, the role of extrinsic prize in a process of shaping motivation and specific problems such asinjury, non-selection or amotivation. 

Healthy life education

The main objective of healthy life education developed in our school is promoting the benefits of healthy lifestyle, dangers of obesity, the importance of physical activities and taking responsibility for your decisions. We try to implement healthy rules since the earliest levels of education and we make our students take part in various cross- curricular activities in a series of nutrition and healthy lifestyle education classes presented to children from grade 3 to 7. We focus mainly on benefits of a balanced diet, the importance of staying outdoor and being active, appreciating friendship and being optimistic. All the classes included: 

  • Lots of interaction 
  • Discussing does and don’ts of routine activities 
  • Online games, quizzes, board games,  
  • Creating weekly menus 
  • Presenting different diets, like vegetarian, vegan or gluten free, demonstrating properties of nutrients, macro and microelements 

All these activities were performed during Biology, English and Physical Education classes.  All the presentations were collected in one publication.  https://app.bookcreator.com/read/SqM2qVEjQ86rFhLLFTxdMg

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1OQKbo350QG5J9iuxebj8JFdJigydNpz3vWlX-tPwFB4/edit?usp=sharing

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/14-uG6EU_MVxDFOygrTprV2eIsGO6gqsRA38yDoWY3lk/edit?usp=sharing

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/12R1ZLXo0-KOJ1Gy-qbLC4ikCrK2qUwbr_x5etn7YTdc/edit?usp=sharing

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/12R1ZLXo0-KOJ1Gy-qbLC4ikCrK2qUwbr_x5etn7YTdc/edit?usp=sharing

World Health Day

Celebrating the World Health Day took us a week, but what can be more important than health this year? We prepared some online and regular activities for the learners at different levels. Some resources, such as presentations, films, interviews or games and lesson plans were posted on the padlet and teachers were encouraged to use all the collected materials. The oldest students attended online lectures on eating disorders, conducted by the last year students of Gdansk Medical University. 

Apart from that students: 

  • compiled their sets of rules how to be healthy and fit
  • took part in inter-class competitions about human anatomy and physiology 
  • created their own health pyramid schemes 
  • played games and tournaments 

The main idea, however, is raising awareness of the health, well -being, importance of the balanced diet and influence physical activities and good relationships have on our happiness and prosperity.