FRG24-MC- RESPECT-Inclusion documentary: Rising Phoenix

Learn about the paralympic games and understand the concept of inclusion within the Olympic games. Learn sport and disability vocabulary. Understand the difficulties the disables have to overcome in sport and in life and how do they manage to transcend themselves. 

In order to start our session on Inclusion in sports, we started by reviewing the sport vocabulary through  sports crossword. The students therefore had to learn the sport vocabulary, which they had been using through discussions and workshops. Within the two next sessions we watched the Netflix documentary Rising Phoenix that tells the story of Paralympic Games and frames the disable athletes as superheroes. This inspiring documentary allows students to understand the difficulties disable athletes have to overcome, but also that nothing is impossible in life.
Within our two final sessions, students chose a disable athlete they do find outstanding and had to create a poster with the athlete name, disabilities, achievements and Olympic Medals.

By watching Rising Phoenix documentary and through discussions in class following the documentary, our students understood the importance of inclusion in life and in sport. By making research on their favorite disable athletes, they aknowleged the difficulties disable people have to overcome in their lifes. On a technical level they acquired vocabulary in sports, vocabulary around disabilities, but also human skills and tolerance. They learnt that the Olympic Games is accessible to everyone.