Report of activities about the Olympic Movement

Children at the age of 12 (2nd form) learn about the Ancient Olympic Games during their history-lessons and teachers inform about our school being part of the Coubertin-network
Students of the 6th form can choose between different subjects:
- Those who select “Theory of sports and leisure education” cover the Olympic Movement during the chapter “sports and society”
- Others who select “Culture and Europe” learn in the first part about French culture and here again about sports in France: Pierre de Coubertin as the founder of the IOC and the initiator of the Modern Olympic Games is part of the teaching content.
Finally, we do benefit of times, in which we can neither use our gym nor do sports outside (when the gym is transformed into the ballroom for our school-ball) to teach some sports-theory, especially education about the Olympic Games and Pierre de Coubertin.
- During the Covid-19-pandemic this part took a larger range than usual.

We celebrate the Olympic Dayat the end of our schoolyear by organising a sports-festival.Students who took part or will take part in the Pierre de Coubertin-Forum create posters about our membership in the Coubertin-network and a quiz about the Olympic Values. At the opening and closing ceremony the head of our school points out to the special day (Olympic Day) and our involvement in the Coubertin-network. Finally, there is a tombola at the end of the quiz.
On the “Day of Grammar-schools”in November, students who participated in the PdC-Youth-Forum present this great event in the festival-room for all students from 14 up to inform the others and to share their impressions and best moments.
Unfortunately, these two events had to be cancelled in 2020 due to the Covid-19-pandemic.

There is a huge portrait of Pierre de Coubertin in our schoolvis-à-vis of the portrait of the founder of our school – Saint Giovanni Bosco.
Since 2020,the columns in the hallway to the gym are shining in the Olympic colours.