Thanks to the funding of the National Strategy for Internal Areas, the activities of the “A Mountain of Sport” project started a few weeks ago.

The project proposes recreational motor activities able to develop the motor prerequisites essential for starting any sport.

The idea stems from the need to counteract the tendency of young people to not very active lifestyles that negatively affect health.

A very nice project that is aimed at 955 students who attend 78 classes, from first to fifth grade, of 19 school complexes included in 5 Comprehensive Institutes that are based in the 7 municipalities of the Unione Montana dell’Appennino Reggiano.

The “Joy of moving” method is the one that was chosen.

Here the game is seen as a tool to stimulate the various aspects that distinguish the psycho-physical development of the child, namely:
– physical efficiency,
– coordination and conditional motor skills,
– cognitive functions and
– creativity and finally also life skills.

Unlike other motor activities proposed in primary school sports games adapted to this specific biological age are therefore not presented., but some Movement games also recovered from popular tradition and appropriately adapted and varied, able to emotionally involve both students and teachers.

It is therefore the game together with the reflection mediated by the expert and the teacher who jointly become architects of the development of basic motor skills, cognitive functions and relational skills.

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