Children running around a stadium… Nothing really surprising, except when there are three hundred of them! Friday, November 15, the town brought together all its CM1 and CM2 studentsas well as the children of Uppsi, for a day called Sporting encountersat the Prunello stadium. The objective? It is threefold: to do discover different sports children, participate in an inter-school competition and promote access to physical activities.
Around ten activities
A busy program for this multidisciplinary event on the theme of the Olympic Games, diversity and inclusion, organized by the city, supported by the regional academic delegation for youth, engagement and sports (Drajes), in as part of the Impact 2024 project.
On the program, around ten activities: tennis, football, handball, golf, rugby, speed racing, throwing, taekwondo, judo and boxing. Nothing to scare Lison and Gioia, CM2 students at the Marcellesi school who, although they didn’t really know golf and throwing, liked tennis and sprinting. And even after a rather intense morning, the girls say they are ready to continue the workshops “because we want to play handball here, on a real field, with a real ball. We do it at school, but with a foam ball. It’s not the same”they judge.
A fluid and relevant discovery
This is readily conceded by Emmanuelle Raffalli and Audrey Muscat, respectively teacher and director of the Murateddu school, who appreciate being able to have the children tested “what we cannot do at school because we do not have the appropriate equipment or the necessary knowledge. This is also what is interesting about being supervised by facilitators and educators specialists in their sport: the discovery takes place in a fluid and relevant way and the format of half an hour per workshop makes it possible to satisfy both those who know the activity and those who are new to it or don’t really like it; .”
Advocacy for taekwondo
The children, like Nino and Baptiste, students at the Trinité school, in CM1 for one and CM2 for the other, would like “doing taekwondo at school. We have tatami mats, and we use them for other activities, but now we discovered this, and it’s really good.”
Like them, many of them wanted, at the end of an activity, to repeat the experience in a club, “but I already play several sports outside of school, so I don’t know if my parents will want to sign me up. Maybe next year”imagines Carla, at the age of 10 and a half.
What is certain, however, is that the municipality intends to renew the Scontri spurtivi day next year.
