The Nice academy is very strongly committed to school sports practice.
The National School Sports Day took place yesterday, featuring sports and recreational events (demonstrations, cross-country, tournaments, athletics competitions) in all schools, middle schools, and high schools, bringing together students, their teachers, and their parents.
School sports play a fundamental role in giving young people access to sports and more broadly to community life. It is a dynamic element that strengthens social cohesion within the educational institutions of the Nice academy.
The National School Sports Day marks the opening of a week dedicated to sports at the start of the school year, in collaboration with university sports federations, workplace sports, and the entire sports movement gathered under the French National Olympic and Sports Committee.
It is part of the “Feel Sport” operation, from September 13 to 21, which brings together all sports federations for the occasion. Each association can organize events open to all related to this theme. The goal of this day is to promote school sports, showcase the dynamism of nearly 2 million licensed students, and attract new recruits.
Thousands of students, teachers from the Nice academy, volunteer supervisors, as well as partners (National Union of School Sports (UNSS), Primary School Sports Education Union (USEP), Côte d’Azur Regional Olympic and Sports Committee (CROS), departmental Olympic and sports committees (CDOS)), and local authorities are involved in sports and recreational events (demonstrations, cross-country, tournaments, dance, climbing, athletics competitions, etc.) in over 250 middle schools and high schools, as well as in numerous schools in the Alpes-Maritimes and Var regions.
Through the educational and civic values it conveys, it contributes to providing all students with a comprehensive and diverse training pathway in addition to the mandatory physical and sports education curriculum.
In the baccalaureate exam events, 40 students who achieved a national podium and 13 students who received a “young official” national certification were able to benefit from recognition of their school sports pathway within the EPS optional module.
For the 2014-2015 school year, the academy hosts the French UNSS championships in alpine skiing excellence in Auron (middle schools and high schools), badminton in Fréjus/St-Raphaël (high school excellence and institutions), futsal excellence (juniors), mixed beach volleyball (middle schools and high schools).
