{"id":44968,"date":"2022-06-30T15:22:07","date_gmt":"2022-06-30T13:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/test.steinmuehle.de\/blog\/2022\/06\/30\/after-a-two-year-hiatus-from-sports-the-bilingual-elementary-schools-first-national-youth-games\/"},"modified":"2026-06-18T17:35:46","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T15:35:46","slug":"after-a-two-year-hiatus-from-sports-the-bilingual-elementary-schools-first-national-youth-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/en\/blog\/2022\/06\/30\/after-a-two-year-hiatus-from-sports-the-bilingual-elementary-schools-first-national-youth-games\/","title":{"rendered":"After a two-year hiatus from sports: The Bilingual Elementary School\u2019s First National Youth Games"},"content":{"rendered":"

On May 31, the time had finally come: After two years of the pandemic, during which the importance of school sports had been downplayed, school sports events were finally allowed to take place again. As a result, our elementary school students got to experience their very first Federal Youth Games at Steinm\u00fchle. <\/p>\n

With the active support of the Sports Track (11e), all the students had a blast all morning long and got to compete and let off some steam. Here\u2019s how our fourth graders described their morning in their own words: <\/p>\n

\u201cOn May 31, we attended the National Youth Games. Marcel Kalb had his 11e advanced physical education class help us prepare for the National Youth Games. They were behind the cafeteria, near the log cabin. The 11e class helped us warm up and showed us everything. We participated in four events. They showed us everything and explained everything to us. For the long jump, the 11th graders first gave us tips, and then we got started. It was a lot of fun, and the 11th graders were goofing around a lot. The ball toss is a sport where you have to throw a ball into squares numbered 1\u201320. Class 11e organized the ball toss and helped us understand the rules. If you didn\u2019t hit the marked squares, you didn\u2019t get any points. The third station was the sprint. At this station, the fourth-grade class raced against the third-grade class. We had to jump over hurdles, run a slalom course, and our times were recorded. The final event was the cross-country run. The Flexies went first. Then the fourth graders started. One of them fell over. Five minutes later, the third-grade class began. There were obstacles in the race, too.\u201d <\/em><\/p>\n

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“I liked the race because it was fun”<\/strong><\/p>\n

Since the Federal Youth Games are set to remain a regular part of the school curriculum next year as well, third-graders were asked for their opinions for the purposes of quality assurance and \u201cevent development.\u201d When asked, \u201cWhat did you like?\u201d <\/em>they responded <\/em>as follows: <\/p>\n