GYMKHANA TO CELEBRATE EUROPE DAY (9th MAY)
Gymkhana rules:
- A circuit of tasks will be arranged in a circle – in the school playground or preferably in the gym
- All pupils will be given one flag (paper/textile)
- There will be 12 tasks
- Teams will be timed from when they start
- With each task that they complete successfully, each team will achieve a star that they will stick on their flag
- The team with the most stars will win the Gymkhana
- Each team should have 4- 5 members
- There should be a maximum of 8 teams
- Teachers must supervise all tasks
Materials needed:
- EU flags
- European flags with their names on a different page laminated and cut out
- A3 maps of the EU (blank)
- Names of different EU countries laminated and cut out
- Blue flags and Stars
- Images of typical dishes with their corresponding QR code
- 2 laptops and headphones
- Videos with the national dances:
- Videos with 6 different songs in European languages:
- For the sport tasks: spoons, balls, cones
- Coloured cards with the names of European countries
- Speaker
- Quiz questions:
1. When was the EU created? 1993
2. How many stars does the EU flag have? 12
3. How is the European anthem called? Song of joy
4. Who wrote the ninth symphony from which the anthem comes from?
5. How many countries are there currently in the EU?
6. How many official languages are there in the EU? 23
7. What’s the motto of the EU? United in diversity
8. Where are the headquarter of the European Parliament? Strasbourg
- Prizes
TASK 1
Pupils must match countries with their corresponding flags correctly
TASK 2
Pupils must locate at least 10 countries on a blank A3 map of the EU correctly
TASK 3
From a dark bag, pupils will take out the names of 10 countries and must say their capitals correctly
TASK 4
Identify national typical dishes using a QR code
TASK 5
Pupils will listen to two fragments of national dances (Flamenco, Tarantella or Sirtaki) and do the dance correctly. A video could be shown on a computer to help them
TASK 6
Sport. Egg and spoon. Pupils must carry a small plastic ball on a spoon holding it with their mouths while moving around cones without the ball falling
TASK 7
Sport. All members of the team must carry another member of the team from one point to another avoiding obstacles. Cones cannot fall either.
TASK 8
Sport. Skipping. All group members must jump at least 3 times without stepping on the rope
TASK 9
Quiz with questions about Europe. Teams will win points for each correct answer. To win a star they need at least 5 out of 10 correct answers.
TASK 10
Pupils will listen to the start of 6 different songs in European languages (Greek, Italian, Spanish, French, German and Portuguese)
TASK 11
Pupils will be shown the images of the 6 monuments visited in Spain and Greece and must identify them correctly
TASK 12
Pupils must hook 10 rings on cones
EUROPE DAY
Today, with a few days delay, students of Scuola Secondaria di Primo Grado “D’Alessandro-Vocino” have celebrated the Europe Day with a Gymkhana shared with students from IES Guadalquivir of Cordoba and 3rd Gymnasio of Naoussa. Italian students, divided into teams, have enjoyed discovering facts about Europe, traditional dishes of European Countries, national dances and songs.
Students have fulfilled all the tasks in order to gain the stars they had to fix on the flags, but the most amazing tasks have been the sport activities with spoons and balls, which were carried out in the corridor of the school, instead of in the open air of the school yard, due to bad weather conditions in a rainy day. Bad weather hasn’t stopped the enthusiasm of the students shown for the Erasmus activities.
