The physical education lesson can take the following forms

The physical education lesson can take the following forms:

 

a) Complete lesson on landscaped grounds.

The entire lesson takes place on a field with the appropriate equipment and, therefore, allowing the practice of all kinds of natural exercises. It is the most efficient. It is therefore of paramount interest to create at each school, as in sports clubs, a fitted out training ground, where the children will find the gantries, balance beams, suspension bars, fall pits, track or course, which will allow them to practice all the natural exercises mentioned above. Obstacle tracks offer a particularly interesting combination of exercises.

 

b) Varied Course Lesson.

The varied course lesson can be practiced either on school grounds or in the countryside, on a location generally chosen in advance.

In the first case, the obstacles (beams, rails, ditches, flat - forms of recovery, porticos to climb and balance, etc.) will be artificial, fixed and permanent, others improvised and consist of makeshift materials .

In the second case, they are natural obstacles (embankments, ditches, fallen trees, brush, watercourses, rocks, walls, etc.) which will present various and unexpected difficulties. The course will force students to face all unforeseen situations and, in competitions between groups, to organize a collaboration that will develop team spirit.

This method of training will be used especially by rural schools which do not yet have a school ground.

 

c) Lessons reduced on the Plateau or in the classroom.

The reduced lesson is carried out when there is only one “set” without facilities, either because of bad weather (courtyard or room used as a stage), or because the necessary facilities could not yet be carried out.

This lesson is said to be “reduced” because the lack of material does not allow the introduction of certain exercises: suspensions or climbs, balances on the beam, jumps on the jumper or with support.

The range of natural and utilitarian exercises practicable in this reduced lesson nevertheless remains wide enough to provide useful training.