The Olympic Idea

With establishing this year the year of "Education Trough Sport" all educational institutions in Pruszcz Gdansk! have undertaken a lot of initiatives aiming at promoting the role of sport in education and popularization of the Olympic idea.

The activities undertaken by one of the schools are worth noticing. A special programme comprises the aim, tasks and ways of carrying the enterprise into effect. Promoting the values connected with the Olympic idea and the rule of "Fair play" in sport and everyday life are superior in the programme. Sport integrates different fields of life, the local environmental (street, housing estate, quarter, city, commune), is meaningful in fighting evil and pathology, popularizes alternative lifestyle, is not expensive and is suitable for financial abilities of school and other educational institutions. The venues were: the sports hall, computer rooms and classrooms.

Within the confines of the action "Winter holiday in the city" teenagers with their PE teachers took part in sports activities and competitions at the school sports hall and primary school swimming pool. One of the schools was an organizer of games within "Gimnazjada Szkolna" and Provincial Olympics for School Children. The students of grammar school took part in a school art contest "On the way to Athens" and school Olympics knowledge competition. What is more, a literary competitions was carried out at the high school level - the students wrote an essay related to the Olympic Games. Another point was a football tournament. Its aim was to integrate the school environment and show the funny and educational aspects of sports rivalry. Secondary school students, teachers, and officials from the Municipal Council and districts authorities took part in the football tournament. In the team consisting of local government people a special guest from the Polish national football team has appeared. After the match students had a chance to talk with Mr Soko³owski about football and ask questions also about his private life. As part of the celebration of the EYES a women volleyball match between the major league squad "Energa-Gedania" Gdañsk and the team from Kiev (Ukraine) was held in the sports hall. After the match there was an opportunity to meet the players of both teams, talk to them, take photographs with them and get their autographs.

The above mentioned action was to introduce the young people to the beauty of sport, the idea of "fair play" and show them the useful ways of spending free time. According to the authors and directors of the programme all those aims have been achieved.