Project "Choose sport"


1. Expert panel: “Including children into extracurricular sport activities”

Sport is a right and a need of the contemporary man, a factor of health and a means of education. The lecture for pupils in grades 1 through 4 of primary schools and sport coaches of the Union of sport associations of the Town of Rijeka aims at connecting institutions and emphasises children’s physical activity through the dimension of sport, as well as their mass motivation and inclusion into sport – through education.

Project participants appraised the overall lectures with the 88% of very useful and exceptionally useful grades, which also reflects the individual lecturers’ lectures. In discussion, they emphasise the awareness of insufficient physical activity among schoolchildren, and notice increasing obesity. As cause, they identify the lifestyle and the diet within the family and lack of education and engagement among parents.

Participants think it important that children be included in extracurricular sport activities as prevention to obesity and for the purposes of health in general, but also as a segment of upbringing and as prevention for other negative sociological phenomena.

Based on personal experience, they confirm that those children engaged in sport: are more self-confident, are less obese, are less aggressive, and more disciplined in school. They next hold the most appropriate methods for directing children into sport activities are: demonstrations of sports – contact with clubs, adapted children’s literature and lectures by professionals. It is these segments in particular they have recognised in the project “Chose Sport.”


LECTURE EVALUATION:

OVERAL LECTURE MARK:
“Including Children into Extracurricular Sport Activities“

11%

LECTURE EVALUATION: useful

47%

LECTURE EVALUATION: very useful

41%

LECTURE EVALUATION: exceptionally useful

PROJECTS’ USEFULNESS:
Choose Sport and Olympic Stories as part of extracurricular sport activities?

17%

LECTURE EVALUATION: useful

47%

LECTURE EVALUATION: very useful

29%

LECTURE EVALUATION: exceptionally useful



LECTURE TOPIC AND LECTURERS

Why Primary School Children are Getting Fat
The Croatian Institute for Public Health
University of Zagreb Faculty of Medicine
Dr Sanja Musić Milanović

41%

LECTURE EVALUATION: useful

23%

LECTURE EVALUATION: very useful

35%

LECTURE EVALUATION: exceptionally useful


Promotion of Healthy Lifestyles in Educational Institutions
Dean Bogić, BSc, Vice President of the Croatian Judo Association and a physical education teacher at primary school level

11%

LECTURE EVALUATION: useful

64%

LECTURE EVALUATION: very useful

23%

LECTURE EVALUATION: exceptionally useful


Sport and Children’s Overall Development – Prevention of Risky Behaviour
Magdalena Živković, psychologist The association “Community” (“Zajednica”) – expertise and multidisciplinary

11%

LECTURE EVALUATION: useful

47%

LECTURE EVALUATION: very useful

41%

LECTURE EVALUATION: exceptionally useful


Presentation of the project “Choose Sport” and “Olympic Stories”
Vitomir Spasović, BSc The association “Movement – Active and Healthy” (“Pokret - aktivan i zdrav”)

11%

LECTURE EVALUATION: useful

47%

LECTURE EVALUATION: very useful

41%

LECTURE EVALUATION: exceptionally useful