The document summarizes the activities of the first year of an Erasmus+ project conducted by the 11th Primary School of Haidari in Athens, Greece. It describes introductory activities to introduce the program, additional activities held in September-November 2015, planned activities from November 2015-January 2016 focused on nutrition, exercise and mental health, and learning and training activities in Athens. It also outlines dissemination efforts, including presentations, posters, websites, newspapers articles, and evaluations to assess the success of year one activities in achieving project goals.

1. 11th Primary School of Haidari,
Athens, Greece
2015-1-ES01-KA219-015795_2
Erasmus+ HAPPENS
2015-2017
First Year implementation
RADOMSKO,POLAND
October 2016

2. 1ST YEAR ACTIVITIES
A2: A research on teachers, students and parents as
initial evaluation of the level of health and well-being of the
members of our school community (September 2015).
The conclusions led to 3 main problems
1. Students are tired when they come to school
2. A large percentage of students sleep in front of some
kind of screen
3. Teachers and parents do not systematically exercise due
to family commitments.

3. INTRODUCTORY ACTIVITIES :
A3 : School Presentation (September 2014): digital
presentation of our school by older students for the purpose
of communicating with the students of the other schools and
getting acquainted with their own schools.
A4: Erasmus Corner (October 2015): creation of Erasmus
corner in central point at the entrance of our school by
students.
A5: Logo Competition (October 2015): All students of the
school had to think about the program logo and present it in
the form of a picture.

4. ADDITIONAL INTRODUCTORY ACTIVITIES
(September-November)
Messages on the stairs of the school
(September 2015)
with content relevant to the three program areas
Flags of the countries of Erasmus Group
(September 2014).
Maps of our erasmus+ countries (October 2015)
The country clouds, (October 2015) with flags
of the cooperating countries as well as words from each
country ‘ s language.

5. ppt presentation of all the introductory activities
(October 2015)
Posters of our project (November 2015)
with images and text refering to the cities of Europe which
we work, with.
Digital presentations of the countries (November 2015).
Letters from students of 5th and 6th grade to students in
Spain (November 2015).

6. ACTIONS AFTER THE FIRST VISIT TO THE
SPANISH SCHOOL
The staff of our school, the students and their
parents were informed about the work of the
meeting, (November 2015)
The School Counselor was informed (November 2015)
A relevant article was posted on the school website
as well as on the public website at wordpress
(November 2015)
Article Published in two local newspapers of the city
(“Haidari Today" and "247 press")

7. PLANNED ACTIVITIES
(NOVEMBER 2015-JANUARY 2016)
A12: How do children relax? Creating a shield with
pictures ( November 2015)
A13: Sport activities children practice, graph,
pictures, text ( December 2015)
All the students of our school painted or wrote about
the sport activities they are involved in and presented
them with a chart.
Acquaintance with the sports of the Olympic Games:
Students of lower classes of School, got acquainted
with the Olympic sports .

8. A 14: Starting a fruit day at school. Make a
common graph of achievement ( January 2016):
The aim of this activity was to enforce the habit of
eating fruit.
A poster was created by students referring to the
school’s favorite fruit and another one referring to the
fruit of the day.
Monday was defined as the Day of the fruit of our
school .
Healthy eating habits,(January 2016): "A" grade
students learned how to choose healthy foods for their
meals and they created the pyramid of the
Mediterranean diet.

9. Healthy breakfast for energy and well-being
(January 2016) students of 6th grade divided
in groups brought the appropriate foods and prepared
a fun and healthy breakfast in the classroom all
together.
Creating 4 Posters (January 2016) to present the
objectives of program in three areas: nutrition,
exercising, and mental health.
A23: Creating a document about own diet
(February 2016): Mini book about traditional
recipes. Students recorded traditional recipes
(LTTA Athens)

10. LTTA ACTIVITIES IN ATHENS
 “Recognition of emotion” by Arixis, workshop with the
visiting teachers
 Visit to the Town Hall, Meeting the Mayor, presentation
of the Project’s Manifest and the Project’s Posters.
 Visiting the Holy Rock of Acropolis
 Workshop at the Acropolis Museum
 Visiting Kallimarmaro, the stadium of the first Modern
Olympic Games
 “National Action for Health in Primary and Secondary
Education (EYZHN)” . A secular programme of Greek
authorities, lecture at Harokopio University, Athens
 “Mediterranean nutrition and health in children and
adolescents”, lecture by Maria Maraki, MSc, PhD
Nutrionist-Research Associate at Department of
Nutrition and Dietetics, Harokopio University of Athens

11.  “You are my mirror” , Activity with 5th grade students on
empathy and recognition of emotions
 “Greek Wrestling”, the most ancient Olympic Game,
presentation of the rules and the values of the game by the
coach Mr Nikos Papageorgiou and demonstration by
students .
 “The seven stone” game. Demonstration of Ancient Greek
traditional games still popular with students
 “The witch”, a game about healthy food choices and
 “The king”, a game about the Olympic games.
 “Epidemiological evidence for exercise and health in
Greek children and Adolescents” lecture by Konsantinos
D. Tambalis, MSc, PhD Teacher of Physical Education-
Epidemiologist, Department of Physical Education and Sports
Science, University of Athens, Athens, Greece

12.  Workshop in the Archaeological Museum
 Visiting the Temple of Poseidon at Sounio
 “Dietary habits and psychological effect” Activity
with 3rd grade students on nutrition and healthy
habits
 “Preparing healthy hands for healthy food”, The
importance of hand hygiene before eating,
Workshop at school, 6th grade,by Akrivi Arvaniti,
Supervisor, Health Visitors Unit Department of
Public Health Services "Thriassio" General Hospital,
Elefsina, Attiki
 Preparing healthy Greek Dishes, Workshop for
teachers
 Evaluation of the first LTTA meeting in Athens

13. COMPLEMENTARY ACTIVITIES
Walking in the Poikilon Mountain and Diomidio
Botanical Garden, (January-May)
Tales backwards (February 2016): Theatrical
performances on the emotions and mental health of
the students of the 2nd grade.
The feast of vegetables (February 2016): The
celebration of vegetables was organized with the
cooperation between parents and teachers .
Poster for the day of vegetables (February 2016):
To promote vegetable consumption, was created by the
students and placed in various parts of the school.

14. The suitcases of emotions (March 2016): made by
our students (3rd and 4th grade) inspired by monternist
Greek painter Alexis Akrithakis .
Internet addiction and ways to address it
(March 2016), Seminar for parents, teachers and
students with the aid of clinical psychologist Mr. Nikos
Papastergiou and the journalist Mr. Panagiotis
Makridis.
Writing letters to the students in Ireland
(April 2016).

15. ACTIVITIES FOLLOWED THE LTTA IN GALWAY
(May 16-June 2016)
A6: mental health Activity by school teachers
(June 2016)
"The development of empathy in schools" Laboratory
for empathy and compassion with the support and
coordination of the dependency prevention centre
"Arixis", similar to what we witnessed in Ireland.
A7: Mental health Activity with students
(June 2016)
"Emotion Recognition": Through painting and
theatrical game students of lower classes learned to
acknowledge their feelings.

16. A8: Activity for teachers’ physical exercise
(June 2016)
"Introduction to Yoga", relaxation exercises and
strengthening at the Hall of our school with teachers
and their children with the assistance of B. Vlassi, P.E.
teacher.
A9: Physical exercise with students: exercises for
relaxation and mindfulness,
(May 2016) Mindful Movements , 6th grade
A10: Activity with the teachers of our school
(June 2016) Experiential workshop manufacturing
therapeutic facial-body cream from herbs

17. A11: Activity with students "Mama Bia".
(May 2016)
Game with cards. The students of the 5th and 6th
grade played the game that was given by students of
Ireland associated with the nutritional value of food .
My book of emotions, My book of feeling
(May 2016) Students of 5th grade created the book of
emotions.
The poems of emotions (June 2016) Students of 5th
grade using their senses created their own poems of
emotions.
Support system (June 2016) children of 5th grade
filled in a flyer with concentric circles of people,
friends or relatives, who feel close to them as
supporters in difficult times

18. THE LAST 1st YEAR PLANNED ACTIVITIES
A21: the wheel of life, life Work wheel
(May 2016): Students of 4th, 5th and 6th grade filled the
wheel of life (of the day) with the activities of a difficult
day and the results were presented and discussed with
students to improve their day-to-day program.
A22: Book with traditional games (May 2016): The three
Greek traditional games: The seven stone game, The King
and The Witch recorded in a specific form and sent to the
coordinating school
A23: The healthy menu of the day (May 2016)
3rd grade students recorded the foods consumed the
previous day. Then offered healthy choices and recorded the
healthy menu for the day.

19. COMPLEMENTARY ACTIVITIES
(MAY 16-JUNE 2016)
Healthy snack to school (May 2016) Students of 3rd
grade discussed and recorded in groups the snack they
usually get to school. They studied their options and resulted
in correct guesses, which they painted creating impressive
posters.
Sport through the centuries (May 2016) 5th and 6th grade
students having studied the history of sports, created team
posters with their favorite athletes and sports from
antiquity until today and the posted them on the school
premises.
4-day Athletics: (June 2016) . Students of all grades took
part in 4 day athletics under the custody of school gymnasts
competing in races 50, 150 and 300 m and the "ball".

20. ACTIONS FOR DISSEMINATION
A. UPDATES - PUBLISHES
We believe that the right information and
dissemination of the project helps us significantly in
the achievement of its objectives. For this reason:
1. We prepared a ppt presentation informing all
students, teachers, parents, but also our
region's representatives and the school counselor
of our region about the content, the purposes and
the objectives of our project.
2. We worked on our project’s logo
3. We created our project’s posters
4. We organized the erasmus corner in our school
to disseminate the project’s outcome

21. 5. Every time we returned from a visit to another
school (Barcelona, Galway) we organized meetings to
inform our colleagues, parents and students about
the school we visited and the course of business .
6. We contacted personally with the Mayor of the
city to inform him and seek his support and
cooperation .
7. Along with the teachers who visited us , we
submitted the Manifesto of the program and the
posters, to the mayor and School Counselor .
8. We posted our project posters at the Town Hall,
the offices of primary education and many other public
places of our city schools, nursery schools, swimming
pool, Sports Centre.

22. 9. We published articles in two local newspapers of
the city (“Haidari Today" and "247 press") about a. our
project (manifesto-posters) b. our visit in Barcelona
c. our visit in Galway
10. We published all our activities to our common
wordpress website
https://erasmusplushappens.com/

23. 11. We also published all the activities to our school
website http://edimotiko.blogspot.gr/
12. We used social media: twitter and facebook to
present our project and our activities.

24. B. INVESTIGATIONS-EVALUATIONS
13. We organized an initial survey, for students,
teachers and parents, to determine the level of
health and well-being of the members of our
school community.
14. An evaluation form of the work on both
LTTA meetings was completed by all
participating teachers, which in both cases shows
clearly the success of the project that weeks in
all sectors.

25. 15. Three evaluation forms were completed for each
of the three seminars that we organized at our school
for the teachers of our school at the end of the first
year.
The results also indicate the success of the program
and the teachers ' desire for taking part in similar
seminars the next school year.
16. An evaluation form (Google forms) was completed
by the teachers of our school to assess the success of
the first year of the program.

26. CONCLUSION
The activities of the first year, which were pre-
planned, but also those organized at the two
meetings, LTTA 1st at our school and 2nd in the
school of Ireland, were implemented fully and
successfully without any problem whatsoever,
instead satisfied our students, teachers and parents
of our school community and achieved the goals we
had set at the beginning.
Now we are ready for the second year and the
successful ending of our project!