Case Study 2: “Getting active”

CASE STUDY 2 CASE STUDY 2

Getting active

Purposes

Haugaland wanted to offer students physicaly training without any obligations. We made a partnership with a local football club (Sk Haugar) that organized the training once a week. The main goal was to gather people from our school both to exercise and socialize and make new friends.

Description

We started in September 2016 in a big football hall. The training was from 13.00 – 14.30 (student free time) every Tuesday At the beginning only a few students met, but we worked hard to market the scheme through the student council, department hours, information screens and so on. At the end of September we had 24 students at the most. It was a nice mix from the different departments, and it was also 6 girls. We managed to keep going until the middle of December.

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Conclusion

A study among the students showed that many met because they wanted extra training. • The majority also said that they became familiar with students from other departments. • Most off the student said that they were playing football in a local football club in addition. • Most of them ended the football training because they did not have time due to schoolwork. • At times the students were out in practice, and could not participate. The school experienced that it was difficult to keep a stable group of students week after week. This was due to many things, but mainly because the training was after school hours and many of the student had practice periods and therefore couldn’t attend for many weeks.

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