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active – become a sailor otrok in mladostnik – okolje | child and adolescent - environment
Blanka Uršič
Elementary School Vojke Šmuc Izola, Prešernova cesta 4, 6310 Izola, Slovenia
In our school, we pay a lot of attention to encouraging children to spend their
spare time actively. We wish for every student to be active in sports. There-
fore, we offer them different sports activities. We organize a 25-hour sailing
course for all the fourth graders. We perform the course in September as a
part of regular school lessons. Our goal is to enthuse the students for sailing
which has a long tradition in Izola. However, this sport is less popular among
children. The course is performed by the coaches of the Burja Sailing Club.
We combine it with school lessons of natural sciences, social sciences, arts,
and Slovenian language. Cross-curricular integration is namely one of the basic
educational principles of modern school lessons. The course is performed on
the premises of the club where the students first get acquainted with the sail-
ing boat, its component parts, and basic theoretical starting points. After that,
the students sail in the optimist in the bay of Izola Marina and later, on the high
seas. Coaches with the license are responsible for the procedure to be per-
formed professionally and safely. We have been performing the course for sev-
eral years and we have realized that the number of active sailors increased
substantially among children. Many become enthusiastic about the sport and
continue to sail actively as the members of the club. Therefore we plan at our
school to continue with such a form of work.
Keywords: cross-curricular integration, sports activities, sailing course
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Blanka Uršič
Elementary School Vojke Šmuc Izola, Prešernova cesta 4, 6310 Izola, Slovenia
In our school, we pay a lot of attention to encouraging children to spend their
spare time actively. We wish for every student to be active in sports. There-
fore, we offer them different sports activities. We organize a 25-hour sailing
course for all the fourth graders. We perform the course in September as a
part of regular school lessons. Our goal is to enthuse the students for sailing
which has a long tradition in Izola. However, this sport is less popular among
children. The course is performed by the coaches of the Burja Sailing Club.
We combine it with school lessons of natural sciences, social sciences, arts,
and Slovenian language. Cross-curricular integration is namely one of the basic
educational principles of modern school lessons. The course is performed on
the premises of the club where the students first get acquainted with the sail-
ing boat, its component parts, and basic theoretical starting points. After that,
the students sail in the optimist in the bay of Izola Marina and later, on the high
seas. Coaches with the license are responsible for the procedure to be per-
formed professionally and safely. We have been performing the course for sev-
eral years and we have realized that the number of active sailors increased
substantially among children. Many become enthusiastic about the sport and
continue to sail actively as the members of the club. Therefore we plan at our
school to continue with such a form of work.
Keywords: cross-curricular integration, sports activities, sailing course
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