The footballers from the school at the Ring Wesel won the final round of the North Rhine-Westphalia championships in Duisburg and qualified for the national final “Youth trains for the Olympics / Paralympics” from September 13th to 17th in Berlin.
The national competition of schools, youth trains for the Olympics and Paralympics, is the world’s largest school sports competition with around 800,000 students taking part each year. The best schools in Germany are determined annually in 21 sports at the national finals. The German School Sport Foundation (DSSS) promotes extracurricular school sport and has been the sponsor and organizer of the nationwide school competition “Jugend trains” since it was founded in 1999.
Launched in 1969
The school sports competition youth trains for the Olympics was brought to life in 1969 by the magazine Stern and institutionalized in the same year by an agreement between the federal government, the federal states, the German Sports Association (DSB), the professional associations and the German Sports Aid.
In the meantime, under the umbrella of the German School Sports Foundation, the 16 ministries of education in the Federal Republic of Germany, the German Olympic Sports Confederation (DOSB) and its sports associations are responsible for the national competition for schools. The patronage is always the incumbent Federal President. The Governing Mayor of Berlin is the patron for the final events in Berlin, and the minister responsible for school sport in the respective host country for the winter final.
One of the focal points of the school program work is the “Creative school with a passion for movement” in order to offer all pupils sports, psychomotor skills and/or creative design.
Judo, plogging, belly dancing
In addition to classic sports such as boys’ and girls’ football, basketball or table tennis, the Ring Wesel school offers many other activities such as judo, belly dancing, plogging, walking, dance or psychomotor skills during breaks or in the work groups.
Added to this is our participation in the state program “School with momentum”, ie promotion of executive functions in all subjects and teaching content.
Increase in self-regulation ability
With the School with Swing program, the Ministry of Schools and Education of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, the district governments in North Rhine-Westphalia and the Unfallkasse NRW are pursuing the goal of developing and putting together suitable movement tasks to increase the self-regulation ability of the pupils for the school years 2019/20 to 2023/24 and prepare them for use in everyday teaching and learning at school. At the same time, conditions for the success of the development processes in schools, which make long-term work on such knowledge possible, are identified and summarized.
The program partners offer the structural framework to accompany and advise schools in the time window of 4 school years. Since the start of the program, a total of 38 schools in NRW have been supported: 22 primary schools, one special needs school, two junior high schools, one secondary school, six grammar schools and six comprehensive schools.
Encourage learning with momentum!
In this context, getting schools moving means: stimulating school development processes – through a learner-friendly rhythm of lessons, through moving breaks, through moving and independent learning, through participatory organizational structures that promote safety and health, through the recognition of movement and perception as the key to holistic learning . The positive effects of movement, play and sport on cognitive functions are well-founded in the current educational discussion through contributions from movement neurosciences.
