Norway's+AAA

=HOW DO WE ORGANIZE IT?=

In Norway most of our children are quite active already. They play football and handball, take dancing lessons, do orienteering, are a member of the scouts etc. A lot of them are also lucky to have parents who take them outdoors during the weekend. Not everyone has it this way, so our goal is to try to reach out to those who don't. We have chosen to have an AAA once a month. The children have a short day of school every Wednesday, so the last Wednesday of every month we have an AAA in the school area from 12.10 to 14.00. Since it is after school it is voluntary to attend. The children organize activites themselves and one of the teachers are available at the school in case of emergencies.

This first time the children organized these activities:





Minigubben 2012 - a 5 km race at Birkeland
Birkeland organizes a race each year. There is a 27 km run for men and women, 15 km run for men, 12 km run for women and then there is the 5 km run for children. The name of the race is Svalandsgubben, but the race for the children is called Minigubben. This year we thought we should make it a record of children attending the race, as a part of focusing on physical activity this year. Our 6th graders made posters and visited all the classes at the school to advertise and inspire everyone to join them run the race. We succeeded! 106 children participated in the race Minigubben this year! Last year there were 53. From our year 6 we had 24 out of 60 children run the race. Last year there were 7. This year we even had one of our boys run the 15 km run. Impressive! Everyone was excited to do the race. The sun was shining and made the scenery along the track through the forest even more beautiful! We had a great active Sunday!



Active Attractive Afternoon 30th of October
The last wednesday of October it was time for AAA again. The weather wasn't the best. When the activities were about to start at noon it was pouring down. Still there were many 6th graders who was sporty enough to be outside and engage in physical activities despite the rain. Luckily the rain stopped after a while.





Active Attractive Afternoon 28th of November
The last Wednesday of November it was time for AAA again. Ball activities are still popular, but this time some of the students also chose to do some climbing and some of the girls brought their dogs and took them for a walk.







Active Attractive Afternoon 30th of January
This first AAA of 2013 we wanted to have a big skiing day. Unfortunately the weather forecast were predicting a lot of rain, so we cancelled the skiing trip and had a regular AAA instead. Not very many students attended this time, so we are going to make it a big happening in February to get them motivated for it again. The weather didn't turn out as bad as it was supposed to. It was wet, but not raining. We had 9 sporty students playing in the snow. Well done to you! Hopefully there will be more next time!



Active Attractive Afternoon 20th of February
We have had a long winter this year, so lots of winter activities on our AAA's. This last Wednesday of February we decided to organizing some skiing. In the middle of town there is a hill where they make different slopes for the children. They also have a tiny skating rink in the middle of an outdoor stage at the bottom of the hill. It's really nice! We took the children down there and had a nice couple of hours in beautiful sunny weather.





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Active Attractive Afternoon 20th of March
The last Wednesday of March turned out to be a quiet day. Only 4 students showed up for AAA. 2 sporty girls and 2 sporty boys. We are very happy that at least the 4 of them showed up! Winter is still here, so this Wednesday we played in the snow again.





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