Last Thursday 22nd March, The Antonio Gala School celebrated the European Sport Day as part of the Comenius Project: Integration and Equality in the field of PE by means of game, sport and physical activity.
The Portuguese School, which is involved in the project too, was invited to the event. They came by bus from Tavira with some Secondary School students. Our school took part with students from the third level of Primary School and the Secondary School students. All the Secondary students, Portuguese and Spanish, were mixed into different country groups. They wore flag sticks to identify themselves.
The event carried out in the Manuel Utrilla Stadium, in Dos Hermanas, facilities provided by the City Council. Our school showed a lot of different traditional games from the different nationalities which belong to this project: Latvia, Bulgaria, Norway, Cyprus, Portugal and Spain. We showed several adapted games and sports to support the project which we are working for. We organized a total number of 12 stages where the groups were passing. In each stage there were a Spanish student explaining in English the game to the participants.
The morning passed successfully and we got our mains goals: the students enjoyed a lot, they could learn traditional games from others European countries, they practiced a little English and they interacted with new students through the game and physical activity.
Of course, none of these would have been possible without the help of the students of the 4th level from Antonio Gala School, which learnt the procedure of the different games in order to explain them to the groups.
We hope all the students from Portugal and Spain have enjoyed and they have profited from this day.
María José Dorado Segura
