“Active Kids School for inclusive Emilia-Romagna”. Sports and smiles festival in Bologna with over 700 young students involved

A sports celebration, with smiles, games and activities. This is how the day spent in Bologna by over 700 young people involved in the second edition of the Regional Festival of the “Active Kids School for inclusive Emilia-Romagna” project can be summarized.
The event, which took place at the CUS Bologna facilities, concluded the project promoted by Sport and Health and the Emilia-Romagna Region, in collaboration with the Regional School Office and the participating Sports Federations, carried out thanks to the European Funds of the Region, which in this school year involved over 450 primary and nursery schools in Emilia-Romagna, for a total of 70,600 pupils.
Overall, the project brought 230 school sports tutors and training tutors to over 3,500 classes both for the entire primary school cycle and for the final years of nursery school, representing 25 sports federations involved in the project.

This Friday’s party sealed the success of a project which, moreover, brought something new to Emilia-Romagna, acting as a pilot for the whole of Italy: the involvement of nursery school classes. An experiment that saw Tutor introduce even the youngest children to physical activity through play.

The Regional Festival held in Bologna saw the presence of institutional guests and representatives of the “Sport and Health – Illumina” team Andrea Lucchetta, Giacomo Galanda and Andrea Minguzzi.
After the morning spent in the name of physical activity and sport, with play areas held by the project’s school sports tutors and the involvement of 8 sports federations on the field, in the afternoon we dedicated ourselves to studying correct lifestyles thanks to the Pyramid of Wellbeing, with fun and engaging proposals.
New this year was the play area dedicated to nursery schools, with a representative group of pupils who took part in the pilot project “Active Childhood School – for inclusive Emilia-Romagna”.

In the next few weeks, the final party will be organized in all the over 450 schools participating in the project with boys and girls, teachers, tutors and families to conclude the motor and sports game path carried out during the year, thanks to the project and the tutors combined with each class.