Introduce students to Olympic and Paralympic activities, promote inclusion and discuss the values of sport, Olympism and disability.
Olympic and Paralympic Week (SOP), which promotes the practice of sport among young people and mobilizes the educational community around the civic and sporting values inscribed in the DNA of Olympism and Paralympism was scheduled from April 3 to 8 on the inclusion theme.
As part of this Olympic and Paralympic Week, the students of the 6th C class of the Gaston-Bonheur college took part in a sports half-day, Friday April 7, from 1:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. On the program: three workshops sporting and cultural: disabled sports/adapted sport workshop, archery workshop (supervised by educators from the Aude department), cultural workshop (reflection around the film The color of victory led by Usep and UNSS).
The middle school students were joined by the CM2s and the older children of the Ulis class from the Floralies school, led by Xavier Chalard and Sophie Pérez.
Laura Koob, Jérôme Ferrin, PE teachers at the college welcomed the schoolchildren for this disability awareness event.
On the adapted sport side, Roland was in charge of 22 athletes. On the Cosec handball stadium, he proposed activities to be carried out in the context of people with disabilities. “At the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris, there will be ordinary people and others with disabilities “. Disabled sport concerns athletes with motor and sensory difficulties and has participated in the Olympics for many years. The other category concerns those with an invisible disability who fall into the Adapted Sport category. Athletes who experience difficulty in think, concentrate, communicate, live in society and therefore show behavioral problems.
Roland explained, the students were attentive… “ We spot studs, obstacles, ladders on the ground, balls, hoops. We’re going, we’re walking slowly, the goal is to understand and score the necessary points…”.
On the stadium, outside, Alain introduced archery.
In the refectory, The color of victory was viewed. The film recounting the feat of black American sprinter Jesse Owens, quadruple gold medalist at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, was the basis for debates on the values of Olympism and discrimination. This film made it possible to support students’ reflections and exchanges on the values transmitted by sport, in particular the Olympic values: friendship, respect and excellence.
