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The importance of sports at school
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What skills can children develop through sport?
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By: Emmanuelle Bastide
1 min
Sedentariness continues to increase among young people.
More than ever, National Education has a role to play in developing physical activity from an early age.
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In 50 years, the physical abilities of 7-18 year olds have dropped by 25%.
In 1971, young people took an average of three minutes to complete three laps of the stadium, while they need a minute more today, according to an Australian study*.
Beyond the health benefits of sport, what skills can children develop through sport?
Are the 3 hours of weekly sport in primary school sufficient?
Is France doing less well than its European neighbours?
What role should parents play?
With
- Claire Pontais,
national head of physical education and sports at
the National Union of Physical Education (SNEP-FSU)
- Méite Zoumana
, researcher at the
National Institute of Youth and Sports (INJS)
Abidjan, Ivory Coast.
And at the end of the program,
the chronicle of psychologist Ibrahima Giroux, Parents, children, from here and elsewhere
: how to use promises to build a project with your child?
Download here
.
A weekly meeting to help parents, Ibrahima Giroux is a psychologist in Dakar, Senegal.
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