This Wednesday, April 20 in the morning, a hundred kids with disabilities will come to practice the joys of cycling on the forecourt of the arenas. On the menu, 6 workshops concocted by future teachers.
It’s a first. From 8:30 a.m. this morning until around 3 p.m., there will be some one hundred toddlers aged 7 to 20 years old, pacing the arena forecourt on two wheels. Kids for the majority with disabilities, whether mental, physical or sensory. And for which notions of balance or guidance, for example, do not flow naturally.
To transmit
At the origin of this great project called Roue libre, the Gard committees for adapted and disabled sport and the happy meeting of some of its members with Master Meef students from the Faculty of Education of Nîmes. “With the help of the sports department of the city of Nîmes, we have decided to offer a sports day for young people with different disabilities”explains Bastien Arnau of the Gard committee.
“With the help of students from the Faculty of Education. Because in fact, school teachers are confronted on a daily basis with the inclusion of children with disabilities in their class. However, their training does not allow them to do so. So at their request, two committee members offered them two days of initiation to these issues.”
As a culmination of these enriching encounters, the students had the task of developing six workshops for this day on the theme of cycling and around the following six themes: handling, balance, trajectory, braking, pace and propulsion. .
Set to music
It is from these that the participants in this day, including a dozen able-bodied children attending the sports workshop “Know how to ride” on Wednesday morning, managed by the town hall, as well as some belonging to the Humanimes association . “Obviously, in addition to the sports educators who will help us, our team will be brought together to ensure the proper functioning of each workshop and thus be available when needed for students and children who need it”says Bastien Arnau.
Meetings which will therefore be held around the Costières stadium from 8:30 a.m. and until 3 p.m. “Part of the forecourt has cycle paths, ideal for staging the workshops. The Municipality provides us with the bicycles and we can only hope that the children have fun. If the operation is conclusive we hope to make it permanent and renew it next year”.
Ensemble
Sport for all, as a factor of inclusion and cement. These are values that the Gard adapted sports and disabled sports committees uphold loud and clear. So that people with a disability, whether physical, intellectual, sensory, etc. can have happy access to sports.
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