Over 400 Students Sign Club Brugge’s “Scoring for Health” Contract
Last week, Club Brugge mascot Bibi visited five primary schools around the Brugges community to present the Scoring for Health programme to young fans and gather more participants for the club’s initiative.
Since 2011, the Club Brugge Foundation has been organising the “Healthy Scores!” Project (now Scoring for Health). In this health programme, Club Brugge enters into a health contract together with the A-core players, pupils and teachers of the participating schools. In this contract, the school children promise to eat healthier, exercise more and never smoke. During the school year, Club Brugge monitors the schools and completes 15 lessons: a kick-off event in the Jan Breydel Stadium, sports tests, meetings with club mascot Bibi who brings fruit baskets to the schools, lessons on healthy nutrition in the classroom and more. The students receive fun Club Brugge gadgets and video messages from the players to give them extra motivation to keep up with the programme. The programme is completely free for the participating schools.
Last week, the 400 participating students received a workbook from Club Brugge with an overview of the 15 health lessons, useful tips on nutrition and exercise and recipes with healthy snacks. This week all students visited the Jan Breydel Stadium for the kick-off event of the project. They completed 4 workshops: a lesson on healthy nutrition in the Club Museum, some Football Challenges under the South Stand, medical tests just like the players and a questionnaire in the one and only Press Room.
“Scoring for Health is a unique health programme for school children with the players of Club Brugge as role models. The children are really looking up to our players, which is why it is very important that Club Brugge organises this project. Our objective is to motivate the children in a fun way to lead a healthier life,” says Joris Jacobus, Foundation Officer at Club Brugge. (Club Brugge)
