Sports in education

Sport is a tool for the formation, development and improvement of the physical capacities of a person, allowing the interaction of social, emotional and physical aspect of human well-being.

Sport is a good tool to teach to the young people valves and virtues as justice, loyalty, overcoming, coexistence, respect, friendship, teamwork, discipline, responsability and tolerance.

Childre who practice a sport tend to have higher self-esteem and suffer less depression and anxiety.

In my oponion, the subject of Physical Education is one of the most important, since aspect that are not mencioned in other subjects are taught in PE. In addition children need to move and do exercise, because childhood obesity is very present in the school of our country.

Sports should be done outside school hours, with friends or family, doing activities such as soccer, basketball, tennis, cycling, hicking, etc.

The sport in school is not sufficient for children who are in ages of growth, but there are children who like physical activities and enjoy with them. However, others do not like it, therefore parents must
encourage each child make them, since they can have problems of overweight in the adulthood.

Ramírez Perdiguero, F. J. (2004). Los Valores del deporte en la Educación. Madrid: Consejo Superior de Deportes.

Vázquez, B. (2001): Deporte y educación, bases educativas de la actividad física y el deporte en B. Vázquez y cols. (eds.)  Madrid: Síntesis.

Extracurricular activities are important.

Extracurricular activities in primary education are an importan teaching resource, a pedagogical activity and a means of training and socialization for students. In addition, thanks to them, many objectives are fulfilled:


-To interact the child with his/her natural, social and cultural environment as a means of learning. 
-To inculcate the child's curiosity, interest in knowledge and creativity. 
-To understand the reality from analysis and observation. 
-To understand and value the environment that surround them.
-To develop the ability to describe, interpret and critique. 
-To appreciate and respect the rules of coexistence outside the classroom. 
-To stimulate and promote values such as trust, equality, solidarity, respect and tolerance. 
-To socialize with teachers and classmates of another classes and acquire skills for conflict resolution.


For all these reasons, I do not understand why teachers oppose to trips. We must leave aside the traditional method, in which teachers explain and students do hundreds of exercises in class, and innovate, for example going out and learning from the world that around us, due to, as we said, excursions are often a very important part of our school experience, and unfortunately, many of us have not enjoyed them for the simple fact that they have not been realized.


Niño, M.C. (2012). Las Salidas escolares en la Educación Primaria. Retrieved from https://uvadoc.uva.es/bitstream/10324/1845/1/TFG-L%2056.pdf

 



 

Why did we choose this categories?

We divided our school experience in five categories.
The first is methodology: our exams were tradictional, question-answer. For them, we usually studied learn by heart, even nowdays. The marks could be qualitatives or quantitatives. Over the years this changed, the government gave us laptops and we used to do different activities, more participative, interactive, creative... In which team work was guaranteed.
The following is attitudes: on the one hand, we find good memories like the moments that we lived in the school playing and helping our classmates. On the other hand, we also appreciate bad memories, because some of us cried when we went to school, we didn't like to wear uniform, and we also had strick teachers, despite being demanding, they were supportive and attentive.
The third one is extracurricular activities: it was our favourite category and the most that we missed. In it, we have included the school trips, the Andalucia's day, the First Comunion, the End of School...
The penultimate is relationships: if we compare when we were at school with present situation, we can see some changes. For example at school, we were closer to teachers, students who were in another classes were our enemies... However, we don't have any relation with our teachers nowdays and there are less conflicts. In both, we have lived funny moments and we have made good friendships.
The last one is types and stages: although all of us have gone to different schools, I mean public school, private school and public supported by the state; all have received the same education being the stages also the same: preschool, primary school, secundary school...

School Experience.

First of all we decided to divide some words of the list in five groups. The first one is methodology where we can find for example the exams, marks, the homework, traditional methods, participative methods, learn by heart… the second group is attitudes, where we can point out the uniform, the creativity or the good and bad memories… The next group is extracurricular activities where we can highlight for  example the school trips, the peace day, the Andalucía's day, that is to say that they celebrate the principal days during a year… Another group is the relationships where we can find friendships, games, keeping in touch with teacher, love… and the last group, where we can point out the public school, the public school supported by the state  and  the nursery school is types and stages. In this group we can also find the differences between preschool, primary school, secondary school…

Once we made the groups, we decided to represent this idea in a labyrinth. Why have we used this idea? Because we think because we think that acquire all these skills is a long and complex road. We are also agree

 that all these skills are joined among themselves, that is to say that they complement each other. Although we also have to say that there are ways without exit, which don´t lead to any side.

At the end of the road, we have decided to put school. In our opinion the school is one of the most important aspects in the child´s life, because it is where the children  develop their  first skills and where they establish the first social relationships. We would return to the school if we had the chance, because it was one of the nicest stages of our life and it marked our life and even our personality.