School Age Sport

Sports activity has multiple health benefits: it strengthens the muscles and joints, prevents diseases and improves our cardiovascular capacity. Fitness experts recommend that school-age children play sports regularly.

In this way, several objectives are achieved: a benefit for health in general, an improvement in motor skills and greater sociability.

We must not forget, on the other hand, that sport in the youngest also serves to promote educational values, such as respect, the spirit of improvement, teamwork, fair play or rejection of any form of violence.

The undeniable benefits of sport for children should be promoted in the school environment and for this reason there is a specific concept, school sport.

General school sport guidelines

Children have to carry out physical activities directed by a specialist, who must carry out an appropriate schedule for each school stage

The main aspect that must be worked on is that of psychomotor skills. The child psychomotor sessions at school should be carried out with a focus

playful and participatory, in such a way that the child performs a psychomotor activity in the form of a game.

Premature sports specialization must be avoided in school sports

With regard to competitiveness, it is recommended to enhance personal skills and self-improvement, but not to encourage an excessive competitive spirit. It must be taken into account that all school-age children must participate in a plan of equality and without any kind of discrimination. In this sense, children with disabilities should also be integrated into the educational plans that make up the physical activity and school sports.

Educational plans on physical education and sports have to be fully integrated into the school program.

Sport at school is a tool to improve the health of adult citizens

What is learned in school conditions the lives of adults. Playing sports during school helps to consolidate the habit of physical activity in a standardized way.

Likewise, a child who does not play sports may have a series of associated problems: tendency to be overweight, psychomotor limitations or anxiety problems. In this way, a correct planning School sports is very useful to prevent problems in adulthood, such as sedentary lifestyle, osteoporosis or some cardiovascular diseases.

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