The project ‘active schools’ in Luxembourg was conducted for two years (2014–2016) in three elementary schools and extended to ten primary schools from 2016.
The participating schools and their respective child care centres committed to undertake at least 15–20 additional minutes of physical activity each day. To facilitate this, teachers and childcare workers were provided free sets of exercise cards and materials for different modules. In the first year of the project, the schools concentrated on ‘active breaks’, which was then extended in the second year to ‘active learning’ activities which develop and enrich learning.
The project was scientifically monitored and evaluated by the University of Luxembourg. The results were more than satisfactory as active learning relaxation phases were found to be used predominantly 5 to 10 times a week. This high frequency points out that these activities were equally popular with teachers and students.