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Primary school health promotion intervention. Aims to increase physical activity, improve dietary intake and positively influence children’s overall health Project Spraoi is a research intervention aimed at increasing physical activity, reducing sedentariness (sitting time) and improving dietary habits among primary school children. Project Spraoi is co-ordinated by a team of researchers from Cork Institute of Technology. The project works in partnership with the very successful New Zealand Project Energize which has been in existence since 2004.
The project is delivered in the primary schools by a team of Energisers. Energisers support schools in the promotion of physical activity and healthy eating among the children. This is done a variety of ways such as leading initiatives, modelling classes and providing resources and training to the schools.
Project Spraoi received ethical approval from the Research Ethics Board at Cork Institute of Technology in October 2013. Spraoi is an "evolution not revolution" programme.
Spraoi staff will help the schools change what they do, and how they do it, not just add another curriculum programme to the full school programme. Spraoi is gradual, not a "big bang". Spraoi staff help schools identify opportunities for change, provide resources where needed, and support the change process.
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