Indeed, 66% of boys and 80% of girls aged 11-14 do not meet the recommendations of the World Health Organization (WHO) according to the National Observatory of Physical Activity and Sedentary Lifestyle (ONAPS ).
To meet this need, the Government tested the “two hours more sport per week” program for two years in 700 colleges.
This involves, in addition to Physical and Sports Education (PES), encouraging, through a new offer, a practice of regular physical activity for middle school students who are neither registered in a club nor in the association school with particular attention to young girls and young people with disabilities, in order to contribute to the improvement of their well-being and their physical and mental health.
This experiment showed strengths, but also weaknesses in the deployment that should be evaluated before moving forward with the process. The focus of the system on priority education networks since the start of the school year is a pragmatic targeting which targets the populations who need it the most, because they live in urban or rural areas where the license rate is the lowest.
More than 570,000 middle school students can now benefit from this program, compared to 35,000 middle school students during the experiment.
This refocusing, accompanied by simplification for school heads, should make it possible to consolidate the implementation methods with colleges, elected officials and clubs.
The educational community, in particular PE teachers, is placed at the heart of the system to develop the educational plan best suited to the needs of students according to the local context and in partnership with the sports movement and communities.
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