SHAPE UP IN TURKU

Projects at schools

Lauste school

Project of health education: Healthy nutrition

Stresses more on common health and well-being than obesity

In collaboration with school health care and school kitchen personnel

Children will work the theme on various subjects (health education, environmental education, mother tongue, drawing)

Pääskyvuori school

• SU is not a separate or “new” project, but more like a tool in planning and promoting school’s physical activity and healthy life style. SU will also be linked to European Network of Health Promoting schools (ENHPS)

• All the classes, teachers, other personnel, parents etc. will be participating SU one way or another

• Aim is to create a system through which each student/class can contribute to planning and organising school’s PA and health education “PA trail” which can be followed by each class during the school year

• All the accomplishments will be pulled together in a school’s portfolio “Pääskyvuori on the move”. It will be given to all pupils and in the future to all 1st graders.

• IVAC-method is used in pulling the portfolio together: children will select and investigate the themes and the ways of approaching them

• The portfolio is the final product of the process, the “way of making the process visible”, the way of making the local community aware of their ideas but the main target are the pupils and their parents

Kick-off at Pääskyvuori school

Disco organised by the pupils, teachers and kitchen personnel with the idea of giving tips of health menu for children's parties. Kick off was reported by the local media (main newspaper + local TV)

Vasaramäki school

• A parliament of students is being constituted – Each of SU classes choose 1-2 representatives– Aim is to prepare projects and activities

connected to wellbeing at school

Runosmäki school

• Theme of the project: oral hygiene• high quality of dental care is taken for granted

children don't wash their teeth as before• School wants to point out the connection between

oral hygiene, eating habits and obesity • School will use the IVAC-method in studying these

connections

Klassikko school

• Background: Launching of a new community partnership (schools, city, enterprises, other partners) in Turku to promote children's and young people’s wellbeing and enjoyment at school

• School of Klassikko is the only secondary school (ages 13-16) in Turku SU project.

• School’s SU project will be the process of defining wellbeing from young people’s perspective and creating a structure and operational culture for schools in order to involve young people in this new community partnership

• Young people will be in an active role in new partnership project and Klassikko school will do the ground work for this through SU