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Students who successfully balanced school and sport.
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Best practice to promote sport at schoolThis section offers access to a collection of toolkits to promote sport at school.
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Physical Education Teachers
They are the main point of reference for students at school
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Teachers
Teachers of all subjects can contribute to promote sport at school
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School Directors
Their support is a key element to promote sport at school
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A database of resources for teachers, PE teachers and school directors for the promotion of sport at school.
Sporting events are organised in each partner country
Sport Events
Access the page with the sport events informationGuidelines for policy makers willing to raise awareness on the importance of promoting sport in schools
Sport and School
Promotion and integration of all sports into curricular activities
Education for Ethical Based Sport
The importance of an ethical approach to sportEvents
The Not Only Fair Play project has been promoted through conferences and articles.
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From this section it is possible to access a description of each contractual partner of the Not Only Fair Play project.
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Schools
From this section it is possible to access information about the schools involved in the Not Only Fair Play Project in the 9 European countries involved.
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A number of associated partners officially joined the project in order to ensure the project sustainability by continuing to use the project deliverables over the next years.
This section of the Not Only Fair Play portal provides administrative information for the project contractual partners and for the European Commission, and is password protected.
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How to Promote Less Popular Sports
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10. Sports and physical activities in a medical context
There is an overwhelming amount of scientific evidence on the positive effects of sport and physical activity on people’s lives. Engaging in regular physical activity is effective in the prevention of several chronic diseases, including: cardiovascular disease, diabetes, cancer, hypertension and osteoporosis. Playing sports regularly builds muscles, has a positive influence on our image and raises resistibility to infections. Physical exercises also calm nervous system, and help to struggle with depression and stress-related disorders. As a part of healthy lifestyle physical activity and sport support strategies to improve diet and discourage the use of tobacco, alcohol and drugs. PE teachers play an important role in preventing and combating pupil’s obesity since body-related barriers and anxiety caused by weight - related social problems frequently discourage obese pupils from PE lessons.
Sports psychology, which is a component of sports science (discipline that studies how the healthy human body works during exercise), has proved that physical activity has a positive influence on academic performance. It can improve students’ memory, concentration and attention, which directly affect how people learn and retain information.
Physical therapy is an essential area of PE teachers’ activity aimed at special needs students. It is effective in helping children suffering from neurological disorders such as strokes, multiple sclerosis, asthma, cerebral palsy and spinal cord injury.
By introducing some attractive health - related activities e.g. elements of meditative gymnastics like yoga, tai-chi or hippotherapy, music or dance therapy teachers can contribute to promotion of less popular activities, to students’ health benefit.
Sports psychology, which is a component of sports science (discipline that studies how the healthy human body works during exercise), has proved that physical activity has a positive influence on academic performance. It can improve students’ memory, concentration and attention, which directly affect how people learn and retain information.
Physical therapy is an essential area of PE teachers’ activity aimed at special needs students. It is effective in helping children suffering from neurological disorders such as strokes, multiple sclerosis, asthma, cerebral palsy and spinal cord injury.
By introducing some attractive health - related activities e.g. elements of meditative gymnastics like yoga, tai-chi or hippotherapy, music or dance therapy teachers can contribute to promotion of less popular activities, to students’ health benefit.
Learning Objective
The learning objective of this step is to develop PE teachers’ skills in the area of adapting physical education environment to the needs of students with health problems. This step also aims at raising awareness of therapeutic power of less popular physical activities and a strong positive impact that motion has on people’s organisms.
Online Resources
- Sport and health, preventing disease and promoting healthThe brochure available on this website includes information about benefits of sport for modern society taking into account preventing of diseases.
- Benefits of physical activity and sport on health and well beingThe brochure available on the webpage presents guidelines for PE teachers / trainers, study cases, strategies to promote sports, selected examples of key research studies that reports the impact of PA on the prevention of diseases and many links to online resources.
- Obesity and the adapted physical education environmentThe article available on this website gives the advice on how to accommodate the PE activities for obese children
- Dance Movement Therapy – Video for trainersThis video presents the methods of dance movement therapy.
- Yoga Dance Therapy WorkshopThe video available on this webpage provides the trainers with the instructions on yoga dance therapy
- Tips on Exercise & Physical Activity for Persons with DiabetesThis webpage is dedicated to people with diabetes, it contains very useful information for PE teachers: tips, videos presenting exercises recommended for people suffered diabetes, information e.g. what exercises to avoid etc.
- HippotherapyThis webpage provides information how a horse’s movement can be a treatment tool within the therapy session for a wide variety of diagnosis. It also contains success stories, videos and parents’ opinions.
