Attività motorio-sportive nella scuola primaria. Il progetto Lombardia in gioco

Primary schools have been targeted as privileged settings for the promotion\r\nof healthy behaviours and habits for at least four reasons. Firstly, the concept\r\nof “active health” lies on the assumption of being able to promote, and\r\nconsequently induce, an active lifestyle based on recurring physically active\r\nhabits from the developmental age; secondly, the age range between 6 and\r\n11 is considered a “golden age” for an easier and facilitated learning of the\r\nbasic motor skills; thirdly, an intellectual-cognitive development and maturation\r\nseem to be favoured and facilitated by physical activities and neurodidactic\r\nexperiences; fourthly, the development and diffusion of citizenship\r\nskills can be easily found and/or implemented in movement games, which\r\ncan be targeted as ideal educational situations to promote the awareness of\r\nthe importance of rules as well as respect for others and social inclusion,\r\ncore values of the contemporary society. In the three scholastic years from\r\n2015-16 to 2017-18 the Regional Italian National Olympic Committee (CONI)\r\nhas been designated by the Lombardy Regional Government to coordinate\r\nand manage a project focused on the implementation of physical education\r\n(PE) in primary schools in order to promote the development of four critical\r\nareas: morphological-functional, affective, cognitive and social. This project\r\nnamed “Lombardia in gioco: una scuola di sport”, in progress also in the\r\ncurrent school year (2018-2019), has seen the Università Cattolica del Sacro\r\nCuore of Milan acting as a leader and coordinator of five major Lombardian\r\nuniversities (the University of Milan, the University of Brescia, the University\r\nof Insubria of Varese, the University of Pavia). This paper aims to highlight\r\nthe positive outcomes and the effectiveness of the implementation of this\r\nproject based on motor and physical education in a primary school context*.\r\nLa scuola primaria