The Portuguese Football Federation (FPF) launched this Monday a project in some 300 primary schools, to increase the hours of physical activity of children, providing training to teachers and ‘kits’ with sports equipment.
The ‘Hora dos SuperQuinas’ project aims to “develop the motor skills of primary school children” with an “offer of physical and sports activity in curricular enrichment activities”, known as AEC.
It is the result of a collaboration with the 22 district and regional football associations and reaches around 300 schools, including, in addition to sports practice, awareness-raising on nutrition and sleep issues.
The teachers received training at the Cidade do Futebol, in Oeiras, and the participating schools received two ‘kits’ of material, with balls, tennis balls, hoops, ropes, vests and cones, in addition to a digital manual with the proposed activities.
Before the start, scheduled for this Monday, a pilot project reached more than 1,300 children in January, and the federative director, André Seabra, highlighted the first results of this initiative that aims to “combat a sedentary lifestyle and improve the motor literacy of children in Portugal” as “incredible”.
“They showed that one additional session of exercise per week could promote significant improvement in children’s fundamental motor skills,” he explained.
Source: TSF
