On the 9th, 10th, 11th and 12th of May in our school the II Days of sensitization of the disabled through sports were celebrated . Through these we want to make known to our students how disabilities are experienced through sports. We have carried out workshops, readings, games and conferences with Olympic athletes ... to bring the students of our school closer in a playful and dynamic way.  this work so important. 

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We leave you this article summary of these II Awareness Days. 

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Let's raise awareness!

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Nerves, enthusiasm, empathy, groups, slides ... This is how the Second Awareness Days on disabilities at school began. All courses were anxiously awaiting the start of this week to get a closer look at some disabilities such as blindness or paraplegia.

To understand what life is like for people with functional diversity, it is essential that we put ourselves in their place. For this reason, in each test the children had to put themselves in a situation: they had their eyes covered to simulate blindness, they were in wheelchairs like paraplegic people ....

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The activities were very diverse and allowed students to have a great time playing, but at the same time know the difficulties that people with disabilities face in their daily lives.

Doing circuits without seeing anything or having reduced vision using the white cane was exciting, you had to be careful not to stumble, but asking yourself questions was inevitable: how do blind people go about walking down the street? Do other people help them? Is the city adapted to your needs?

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The little ones were able to see how important it is to be able to see, playing guessing games just by using their sense of touch or taste is not at all easy.  

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Playing basketball with wheelchairs is a lot harder than it sounds: how can you be aware of the ball and the chair? what can be done if you fall?

Bocce is a much more difficult sport than it seems a priori, it is very similar to petanque, but the people who play it have total or partial disabilities in the limbs. Therefore, the children had to play sitting in the chair, but it was very difficult to gain momentum to throw the ball without getting up: how do athletes do it? how are they promoted? ...

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All the games and activities provoked in the children the need to question their environment, the city,  to check whether it takes into account the functional diversity of all the people who live there. This personal and collective reflection arose from the approach of unknown realities, experiencing and sharing them.

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The Disability Awareness Days have made it possible to share with classmates experiences of situations that are not close to us but of which we must be aware to know the efforts made by people who suffer from some of the functional diversity that we have dealt with.

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In school we learn by playing, understanding each other, being empathetic with what we have on our side, sharing and understanding each other’s individual characteristics. Together we learn to be a little better every day.