Parent participation

"How can environmental factors (parents) be involved through school to get students to sit still for less time and interrupt their sedentary behavior more often?

Project week: éft je gat up!

Through a project week we inform and involve parents on the topic of sedentary behaviour and movement. Through social media channels (Facebook, Instagram and TikTok) various assignments, tips, videos are distributed on this theme.

The intervention involves the various persons from the pupil’s living environment: parents, peers and teachers. We work through various channels to reach as many of our target groups as possible.

We have given the project the name: "Èft je gat up!” [Get your ass up!]

The project can have an effect on the various health behaviours and determinants of behaviour and environment. This project can be implemented in each school with or without adjustments, taking into account the starting situation and the own identity of the school.

All developed materials can be consulted here.

The script - Eft je gat up!

The script has been elaborated for the supervising teachers on the basis of substantiated methodologies, based on theories. Read in it how to optimally prepare for the week. Find the division of roles and possible tasks. Also the different post for social media can be found in it. Based on the initial situation of the school, the script can be adjusted.
The script ‘Èftjegatup!'

Poster

Hang an appropriate poster a few weeks before the project in visible places, in and around the school. Think of the playground, the entrance of the school, the corridor, the teachers' room,...Make sure you attract the interest of the intended target groups in this way.
Poster

Assignment Card

Through an 'assignment card', students keep track of whether or not they have completed the assignment. At the end of the week the pupils hand in their bingo cards to the responsible teachers.  The school provides opportunities to complete various assignments from the card during school hours. The card can, if the school wishes, be linked to a point for the subject LO.
Assignment Card

lesson on necessity: Quiz!

Before the week starts it is important that the student already has knowledge about sedentary behavior and the movement triangle. We opted to use a Quiz for this. The school can choose to replace a lesson in LO with an (active) lesson full of information about sedentary behavior and the movement triangle.
Quiz

Research

Read Yara Debooserie's full research here.
Research Health Promotion Project

Weekly review

Check out all the posts posted and reactions from the first pilot implementation in our pilot school Middenschool Bredene.

Click on the links below to read the Facebook post. Be sure to check out the accompanying responses from parents and students.

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