Physical Education & Swimming

Movement is a child’s first meaningful language to communicate with others and the world.  With their bodies children construct their learning by touching, trying, manipulating and experimenting all that is around them.  

The work with physical education in preschool takes into account children’s ample motor skill development, affording the possibility for children to explore various spaces with their bodies, stimulating equilibrium and muscle tone for good posture, which is a basis for attention, memory, thought and other cognitive functions necessary for learning at school and in everyday life.  

In elementary school students participate in different physical activities for the initiation into sports, always starting from the development of physical and motor abilities for healthy and cooperative practices.  Social-emotional growth  and ethical values guide teachers’ actions, viewing getting along with others as central to learning and encouraging the development of positive habits and attitudes as important to both emotional and physical balance.  Specifically in swimming classes, students learn how to swim the crawl, breast stroke, back stroke and butterfly.  By Year 5 students have mastered these four strokes and are aware of the health benefits of physical activity in their lives. 

Sports training starts in middle school with handball, volleyball, soccer and basketball, as well as recreational activities and sports-related training exercises.  Basic scientific notions related to physiology and movement are worked on throughout the physical education curriculum.  

Additionally, from Year 2 onwards, students are invited to participate (as an option) in competitive sports with students from other schools, learning how to compete with good sportsmanship and to deal with both winning and losing gracefully.  Take a look at some recent events we’ve participated in!