As part of Olympic and Paralympic Week, activities will be organized in the three elementary schools of Vern-sur-Seiche (Ille-et-Vilaine), city labeled “Terre de jeux”, and on Wednesdays, during the leisure reception of the Center des Marais. The objective of this week is to put more physical and sporting activities in the daily lives of children and to mobilize the educational community around civic and sporting values.
, says Nathalie Perrin, organization referent for the City.
Sporting challenges
On the program in schools, quizzes on the Olympic Games and challenges offered to students.
Students in each class will be divided into three teams representing a different country. Dressed in the colors of the country they represent, challenges will be offered to them in different sports such as basketball, table tennis, handball or boccia. Boccia is a strategic sport, Paralympic since 1984, which is similar to pétanque with a certain number of adaptations”,
explains Aurore Allegret, educator at the Vern Sports Union, one of this week’s supervisors.
The Olympic anthem will be broadcast at the start of the challenges and the anthem of the country represented will be played during the medal ceremony. The young people will leave with small rewards and a diploma.
The leisure center of the Center des Marais organizes, on Wednesday, a discovery of the Paralympic Games by depriving children of certain senses.
Thomas Pesquet encourages children to move more
The organizers also intend to take up the challenge launched to French schools by the hero of children and adolescents Thomas Pesquet. Sponsor of Olympic and Paralympic Week, he launched the #Mission30Minutes, which offers children the opportunity to perform at least thirty minutes of physical activity a day. By counting all the #Mission30Minutes carried out by the students throughout the week, will we be able to make the equivalent of two round trips to the Moon, or 16 million minutes?
details Nathalie Perrin, coordinator of community life for the city. Each evening, the counter on www.generation.paris2024.org will be supplemented by the results of schools and families.
Loïc February, deputy in charge of sports, concludes: In 2022, with the help of schools, the Center des Marais and the Vern Sports Union, our reaffirmed ambition is to put more sport at the heart of the life of Vernoises and Vernois and to be a Land of games.
