COLLECTIVE SPORTS: SPORTING GAMES
The initiation to team sports, started with a general physical preparation, continues with exercises and simple team games.
At around twelve years of age, it ends in the practical study of sports themselves (basketball, handball, football, hockey), but on fields and with reduced time, the material itself being adapted to the possibilities of children: for example example, lowered basketball hoops, lighter balls and balls, etc.
At the " cadet " age , the game can begin to be played with equipment and on grounds that comply with the official regulations of the federations.
Games.
The games (“ Small Games ” and “ Big Games ”) constitute a complementary general education activity whose dosage can be very variable. To determine the importance of the space that games should take up in the timetable, we must always take into account the effort already required by other school activities.
The varied range of games, and especially their different characters, make it possible to choose wisely those that suit the circumstances. Sometimes, one uses as a complement of physical training the great racing games through the countryside which oppose large groups, or even the rallies, the track courses indicated by signs or by messages; one can, in the same way, use many " little games " of physical education where the race, the address and the force dominate in turn. Finally, to provide physical rest to the students, we can choose games that call especially on memory, the spirit of observation and reasoning.
While directing the games, the teacher gives the children as much initiative as possible ; he must be both the impartial arbiter who enforces the rules and the educator who teaches children to “play the game”. He does not fear when he can to participate in games as a simple player, and then sets the example of respect for the rules, of " fair play ".
The games are fortunately complemented by collective outdoor activities which accustom the child not only to expressing himself and to translate his feelings in various ways, but to observe, invent, create: dramatic games in the style of " campfires ". »Scouts, sketches, mimed scenes, etc.
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