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A new campaign by LASEL and APEP, the association of PE teachers, has been launched with a video.
The aim of the campaign with motto "Wou bleifs du?", roughly "where are you?", is to relaunch sports at school and fight inactivity and lack of exercise among children and adolescents.
The Covid pandemic has exacerbated the problem over the last 18 months, with many children getting much less exercise than they should. Claude Schumacher, president of APEP, says:
"Besides mandatory PE classes at school, we offer extracurricular sport classes taking place over lunch or after school. So we want to draw attention to the offer we have in every secondary school, but also motivate students to get moving and join these classes."
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The video is meant to inspire kids to get active and take part in these extracurricular sports activities. Every school has information on the modules offered as well as any national activities and competitions organised by LASEL.
There is reason to worry, says Claude Schumacher. Many children and adolescents are shockingly out of shape. This has become obvious even in the few days since schools started after the summer. School sports have also lost some of their importance with everything going on around the pandemic.
"It was the first thing to be dropped and the last thing to be relaunched."
The campaign isn't trying to make demands, but simply encourage kids to reintegrate sport and exercise into their daily lives.
