Bicycle day
Spain
- Bicycle day. In collaboration with Cycling Federation we spent a day outside school.
The aim of the activity is to run along the bike paths respecting people walking and traffic signals.
Cycling Federation brings 50 bicycles for the students of each level.
Start date: 01/03/2021
End date: 31/03/2021
HUG THE WORLD WITH STEPS
Slovenia
- 25th January 2021 – 8th March 2021 – HUG THE WORLD WITH STEPS
In January 2021 we started an activity entitled Hug the World with Steps (Objemimo svet s koraki in Slovene). Pupils were on distance learning. The main purpose of the activity was to encourage children to do some physical exercise during lockdown. As children spent most part of the school year on distance learning, a huge problem emerged: lack of physical exercise. This is why our school decided to spice up our everyday life and spend some time in the open air doing exercise.
Our aim was to walk together the distance of the circumference of Earth, which is 40, 075 kilometers. All students and their families (siblings, parents, grandparents) and teachers with their families took part in the challenge. P.E. teachers recommended to do this activity several times a week. In those hard times maintaining contact with nature was of utmost importance. Walking is a sports activity that everyone can afford. Teachers recommended students to use different trails and to measure the length of the distance walked by application on their smartphone, such as Sports Tracker for example or a smart watch. P.E. teachers made a collective Excell chart that summarized the walked kilometers for all the teachers.
The distances were summed up with the distance of the children.
The activity started in January 2021 and finished in March 2021. The collective distance was published on the school's website.
The activity was marked on the 18th of March with a ceremony when we celebrate the so-called School day. The response of the children, teachers, parents and grandparents was great and they praised this activity very much.
As the goal was achieved sooner than planned, we decided to continue with the activity and hug the world from the North to the South Pole and walk for another 40, 007 kilometers. The event had a huge response on the main Slovene national media and there was a video about this activity in the Slovenian news on the national channel Slovenija 1. Teachers Andreja Gulič and Matej Maver, authors of this activity, were nominated for the Personality of the Year on the local radio station Radio Koper.
https://www.os-sezana.si/2021/02/17/objemimo-svet-s-koraki/ https://www.os-sezana.si/objemimo-svet-s-koraki/
Start date: 25/01/2021
End date: 08/03/2021
