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Developing engaging personalities through sport

Learning how to manage difficult situations, quick decision making and problem solving

At LfiSV, sport is about far more than the final score. By practising sport, we can learn to live, manage situations and take the initiative. We endeavour to achieve excellence as well as personal development by competing – honing a sense of fair play, leadership, determination and teamwork, both on and off the pitch.

Learning how to manage difficult situations, quick decision making and problem solving

Sport is essential to the life development of growing children.

Children who take part in physical activities foster good values of mutual respect and cooperation. Playing sport teaches them skills such as responsibility, leadership and learning to work with a sense of responsibility and confidence. At all levels of schooling, the objective is the success of all pupils.

Pupils are offered a coherent, diversified and balanced education, ensuring that they have sufficient learning time to acquire the skills set out in the curricula.

Sporting values

Sharing, responsibility, effort, success are some of the values imparted in physical education and sports classes from the Maternelle (pre-school) through to Terminale (sixth form/senior year) as well as in the training sessions and sports meetings attended through the school. AEFE values continue to be taught through the sporting activities offered in our Lycée (sixth form or junior/senior years). AEFE’s sports policy resonates with that of the Olympic movement, imparting the values of excellence, friendship and respect, as well as influence.

Excellence

PE has great ambitions for all students and all are encouraged to do their best, irrespective of their physical ability, within a context of positive rivalry.

Respect and friendship

Respect includes the willingness to respect oneself, to respect one’s body and to respect others, the rules of the game and to respect one’s surroundings. Developing friendships through sport, solidarity, team spirit, joy and optimism must surely contribute to building a better, more peaceful world.

Reach

PE, a discipline in its own right

All students are deemed to be capable of participating in physical, sporting and artistic activities in school. These activities are mandatory for all but can also be adapted to a range of student abilities – everyone can therefore progress at their own rate, based on their own level and ability. All students train together and share activities with those who may be less able, including disabled students. Physical education is taught from Maternelle to Terminale with mandatory timetabled lessons, programmes and baccalauréat examinations.

Sports week

Every year, we hold a “sports week” at LfiSV to promote sport and help students to discover new activities, whether they’re in Primaire, Collège or Lycée. Themes have included rugby, cycling and diversity in European sport.

Sports competitions

Motivated students who meet the required standards will be invited to participate in inter-school competitions throughout the year. Participation in competitions is free of charge and transport costs are covered by the school.

There are around 10 sports competitions over the course of the school year: Tennis, Athletics, Football, Badminton, Swimming, Table tennis, Basketball. We are sometimes invited to additional events by the AEFE network or by German schools to which we also submit teams or players to compete. We have also been involved in the last 3 European PE Games (Stockholm 2015, Barcelona 2017, Moscow 2019) as well as RIZ in Zurich in 2018 and the Rugby World Cup in London in 2015. We are particularly proud to have been invited to organise the European PE Games in 2022.

7th edition of the European PES Games organised by the LfdD

31 May– 4 June 2022

Discover European PES Games

Sports Association

As part of the Sports Association, full educational sports programmes are offered in partnership with the French national education school sports federation (UNSS). From simple meetings to championships taking students to the highest levels of performance (world school championships), every student can live out their passion for sport. The association is aimed at willing and motivated students. Activities are structured both during the school day as well as out of school. With family consent, students may be excused from some lessons in order to compete in competitions and events.

Extra-curricular sport

LfiSV also offers a range of extra-curricular sports activities for students to get involved in (only in Elémentaire).

After-school activities are organised from 2.30pm to 4pm.