Studiereis Gezonde School IJsland

Studiereis Gezonde School IJsland

Studiereis Gezonde School IJsland

Scholen | Woensdag 25 september

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1. Hamravellir

Health promoting Kindergarten (since 2006), 114 children (12 months - 6 years), 28 teaching / 4 non-teaching staff

How has your school organized health and well-being in your school plan
Our school follows a health policy but the policy goal is to increase happiness and over all the children‘s well-being where we focus on good nutrition, daily excercise and to empower creativity whilst playing.

  • Nutrition
    We put emphasis on feeding the children healthy and nutritious food and feeding the food from as many food categories as possible. Our goal is to decrease the usage of hard fat, sugar and salt when the food is made.
  • Exercise
    Once every week we set up an organized exercise for the kids with the goal of teaching the children how to be aware of their bodies movements and over all growth.
  • Art
    We put emphasis on gradually embracing the creativity in arts from the age of two. The goal is to maintain curiosity, creativity, promote the children‘s self-confidence and imagination.

Please give two examples of promoting health / well-being for students and staff 
Students: organized exercise and well thought-out menu

Staff: Grants to pursue fitness and access to healthy and nutritious food

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2. Smáralundur

Health promoting kindergarten (since 2013), 54 children (18 months - 6 years), 12 teaching / 9 non-teaching staff

How has your school organized health and well-being in your school plan
To follow standards from the directorate of health (Embætti Landlæknis) there are 8 key factors that are linked to the school work that Health promoted kindergartens put a special emphasis on; physical activity, mental health, nutrition, safety, dental health, community, family and staff. Smáralundur follows those guidelines and checklists and has a special workgroup in the school that makes sure that every factor mentioned above is part of the daily school schedule. The school follows a school curriculum and every year a specific school year-plan is published. The school is also working on a three-year developmental project  with a focus on introducing mindfulness in the school, both for students and staff.

Please give two examples of promoting health / well-being for students and staff 
The school´s motto is physical activity, health and wellbeing. Therefore, the main focus is on appropriate physical activity for every student, mental practice and social well-being for life. Our school wants to increase student’s movement and create a safe environment that encourages them to move and be active.

  1. In our school we have hired a sport scientist that organizes and takes care of every planned physical activity session that has a warm up, main part, stretching and relaxation. Each child goes twice per week for a planned physical activity session. The children bring athletic clothes from home and wear them in every session. All departments of the kindergarten go for a walk once per week and the children also go outside to play once or two times per day.
  2. The school also focuses on healthy and varied food, both for the staff and the children (specific menu made by nutritionist). Mindfulness practice is done regularly, both for staff and students, and is followed-up by special mindfulness curriculum made for children (The present).

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3. Garðaskóli 

Health promoting lower secondary school (since 2014), 520 students (13 - 16 years), 45 teaching / 25 non-teaching staff

How has your school organized health and well-being in your school plan
All students take classes in sports and swimming every week. We emphasize to give a good variety of health related electives for students to add to their weekly schedules. The school provides free oatmeal in the morning break, for students and staff. Staff is encouraged to do regular health checks, exercise and eat healthy. Every spring we have a “health day” where students do a school run and various other sports related activities. The school works closely with the local sports club and students that practice sports regularly can have time to do that within their school schedule.

Please give two examples of promoting health / well-being for students and staff 

  1. In April 2019 the staff had “health week” where they were encouraged to adapt a healthy lifestyle in various ways: a motivational speaker met the group, whole staff got a week pass at a local gym, one of the teachers gave a yoga lesson, school offered fruits as snacks in the afternoon, a competition of daily exercise ended with a fun award ceremony.
  2. After various attempts to encourage students to eat a healthy breakfast a breakthrough was made in January 2019 when the school decided to fund oatmeal for students and staff on the morning break. About 20% of the house eats the oatmeal daily.

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4. Sjálandsskóli

Health promoting primary and secondary school 1st - 10th grade (since 2009), 284 students (6 - 16 years), 29 teaching / 30 non-teaching staff

How has your school organized health and well-being in your school plan
By emphasizing on physical activities both for students and staff.  By emphasizing healthy and good lunch and snacks.

Please give two examples of promoting health / well-being for students and staff 
Our annual sports day and other annual sport activities such as ski trips, cycling trips and outdoor tree planting trips.

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5. Flataskóli

Health promoting compulsory school - last year of kindergarten until 7th grade (since 2012), 460 students (4 - 12 years), 34 teaching / 40 non-teaching staff

How has your school organized health and well-being in your school plan
Two times a day we have outdoor breaks. In one of the breaks we have organized games students can choose participating in. Students themselves are in charge of the games under the supervision of teachers. We organise outdoor teaching. We have sportsdays. We teach relaxing and meditation each week. We have a special class each week where we focus on the wellbeing of everyone, including healthy communication. We have a school counselor that helps students to find their way in social communication, as well as helping out with special problems (like bullying etc.). This year everyone participated in a course regarding “controlling a class” and making a healthy school culture, by finding the positive leader in themselves.

Please give two examples of promoting health / well-being for students and staff 

  1. All teachers have participated in a course in how to maintain their mental health as well as how they can help their students doing the same through living their lives in the present.
  2. We participate in a competition between all schools in Iceland regarding exercising both to and from school and also after school. We were the winners in that competition this year.

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6. Áslandsskóli

Health promoting compulsory school & pilot school for mindfulness education, students 6 - 15 years, 520 students, 52 teaching / 45 non-teaching staff

How has your school organized health and well-being in your school plan
We have written Health Policy for the School.

  • Checklists for all themes
  • Action/project plan
  • Evaluation/ public health indicators
  • Plan for sustainability  

Please give two examples of promoting health / well-being for students and staff 
We focus on wellbeing of the staff and offered them 8 weeks mindfulness. This  year we also offered  8 weeks for students in  grade 7 and 8. We also have a walking to school program and so much more

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7. Flensborg

Health promoting upper secondary school (since 2010), 650 students (16 - 19 years), 65 teaching / 20 non-teaching staff

How has your school organized health and well-being in your school plan
Formally since 2009 but in reality longer. It is apparent in our framework and our social life. In all our work we talk about education for wellness and practise it too.

Please give two examples of promoting health / well-being for students and staff 

  1. For students we have visiting lecturers talking about physical, sexual and mental health. We had a day for this in February. We also had around that time a job and education forum with several guests. We teach mindfulness and so on.
  2. For staff we have yoga, bikes to borrow, training facilities, a childrens corner, happy days, visiting lecturers, to name but some.  

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