INCLUSIVE SPORT DAYS. Effort and improvement

With this program we create awareness / sensitization towards Adapted Sports and Inclusion. Our students know that everyone can practice sport regardless of their functional diversity.

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CEIP NOVENES DE CALATRAVA (BORRIANA, CASTELLÓ, COMUNIDAD VALENCIANA) SPAIN

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Inspiration

Encourage the full inclusion of our students with functional motor diversity in the life of the center through the area of physical education thanks to participation in the training program for teachers: [https://incluyeteblog.wordpress.com/] Our goal is to carry out actions aimed at giving visibility to people with functional diversity and raising awareness in the educational community and society.

What it does

Our center has held the "Inclusive Adapted Sports Conference" biannually since the 2017 academic year. We are a nursery and primary education center with preferential schooling for motorized students and that is why we decided to carry out actions that help to visualize the different disabilities and give our students a leading role. From the physical education department and with the collaboration of the center's physiotherapist, we agreed to stimulate these actions from the Physical Education area due to its participatory and inclusive nature. Over the years this work is carried out by the Work Commission created in the center.

How we built it

Through the creation of a working commission made up of the physical education teachers, the center's physiotherapist, volunteer teachers, management team and volunteers. There have been three editions: 3 days, 5 days and online. During a week, all the students of the center carry out, during the entire school day, a series of activities related to adapted sports and functional diversity. The performances at first were framed in the sports area but with the passing of the editions it has been expanded to other disciplines such as: music and percussion, dance and dancing, painting, poetry. Some activities that we find are: practical workshops, sports games, simulations, talks, videoconferences, interviews, contests, matches and exhibitions, choreographies, colloquia, etc.

We also live coexistence days with students from other primary and secondary education centers in the town as well as with special education centers and occupational workshops in the province. At the same time, families are participants in these days collaborating in solidarity campaigns (talks, raffles, races, market) and attending workshops such as nutrition and healthy eating. For teachers, training sessions are also included on various types of diversity and pathologies, as well as first aid and CPR, rare diseases, food and nutrition, facilitating devices and elements, etc.

Challenges we ran into

  • Know adapted sports modalities, the specific materials and the regulatory and organizational differences with respect to the conventional modality of the same sport, when necessary.
    • Practice different dynamic sports modalities, in a real game situation, with the corresponding specific material, with guides and facilitators, adapting rules, etc.
  • Raise awareness of the normality and viability of adapted sport, as well as emphasize with athletes with functional diversity about the difficulties and the ability to overcome.
  • To be recognized as a good European practice by the University of Luxembourg (Hepas Project), which compiles the best examples of activities aimed at promoting physical activity and health carried out in educational centers in Europe.
  • Ensure that our students have been motivated to maintain and increase physical activity after participating in this program and value the effort and overcoming the life examples of athletes and speakers.
  • Involve our motorcycling students in a real way in sports practice by accompanying families and with the advice of specialized organizations such as Paralympic Relay.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

  • Teamwork of the educational team.
  • Visualization and positioning of our center.
  • Collaboration and participation in solidarity causes.
  • Promotion of project work in the center.
  • Development of actions related to the axes of: Physical activity, nutrition, healthy habits and leisure.
  • Students with functional motor diversity play sports in sports clubs.
  • Specific actions of our program have been replicated in other centers in the town and in towns outside our municipality.
  • The local athlete of the year award is created in the Sports and Diversity category, winning it a student from the center in the last edition.
  • One of our students who had not practiced sports before this program has started to train weekly, be part of a federated club and become champion of Spain in athletics, this being a clear example of effort and improvement.

What we learned

We have the recognition and gratitude for the work carried out by students, families, city council, organizations, private entities and companies, other educational centers, Inspection, Teacher Training Center, universities, sports clubs, athletes, associations, NGOs, etc. It is very satisfactory to receive comments from education professionals and from different educational centers: infant and primary, ESO, Special Education, Centers for minors, Town Halls, etc. informing us that our project has served as an example and motivation to initiate different similar actions in their centers and that they are going to bet on inclusion through sport. We invite all schools, institutes, shelters and minors, universities, and other organizations to work on the values of inclusion through sport, allowing this type of action in their programs and promoting this unique activity that revolutionizes the dimension of physical activity at an educational level.

What's next for INCLUSIVE SPORT DAYS. Effort and improvement

Expand this experience to other Spanish cities and European countries by participating in the European project Erasmus + KA210-SCH: Physical Activity and Healthy Lifestyle in European Primary Schools (12-01-2021 to 12-01-2023).

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