GR24 - Best Action of 1st year

Aims and skills targeted: Running speed, agility, stamina. Challenges in sports provide an engaging environment for students to compete and push their limits. They acquire the ability to express their feelings and emotions while doing sports as well as getting in touch with their friends' emotions and feelings with empathy. Students learn the value of taking care of your health, and hear the needs of their body

Description: Every four years, at the Olympic Games, the spotlight turns on athletics. Competitions where the athletes have to beat themselves.Every day, thousands of track and field athletes, all over the world, run with all their might. To succeed, they must first tame their soul and body. This is the great advantage of athletics.

Research shows that the odds of someone having the perfect combination of physical characteristics for claiming an olympic medal may be as high as one in 20 million. That includes everything from muscle strength to lung capacity to recovery, and a little bit of everything in between. Apart from that, being an Olympian or professional athlete is a full-time job. The job description is basically train, eat, sleep, repeat.

Just because we are not among the one in 20 million doesn’t mean we can’t enjoy the physical, social and recreational benefits of sports. Our students performed Olympic sports at the tracks of Agios Kosmas near our school where many greek professional athletes train. We actually met some of them and they shared some tips with the students.

But, what would the average person look like competing against actual Olympians in the Olympics?  Our gym teacher recorder student performance. The next day, at the school lab, students used a datasheet program to make a comparison chart between their performance and the one of Olympic athletes.

Datasheet