Abstract
In all-day schools and schools with extended education, children have the opportunity to spend the whole day at school. Full-day attendance at school requires a reorientation of extended time. Therefore, it is important to consider how children spend their time between lessons and identify conducive opportunities. As part of the project “Sport in the School Environment”, multiple mobile pop-up facilities were installed at several all-day schools in Zurich, Switzerland, for a period of 3–6 weeks. These facilities included “Parkour”, “Pumptrack”, “Skatepark”, and “Streetsoccer”. The aim was to find out whether these installations offer an opportunity for physical activity (PA). At the same time, social aspects of the students using these facilities as part of their all-day school attendance were observed. The following questions were investigated: How, by whom, and in which contexts are the installations used? The use of the facilities was evaluated content-analytically and descriptively. It was shown that the facilities are used intensively and in very different ways. The main focus of the pop-up facilities is on the use of the facilities and the creation of opportunities for children and young people to exercise and meet up with each other.
Highlights
Academic Editors: Francis Ries, Parallel to the development of all-day schools in Germany, all-day schools are being introduced in Switzerland, especially in urban areas
With regard to school-related physical activities, extended educational sports activities become more important in all-day schools [5]
Semi-Structured Interviews Conducted with the School Principals and Heads of Student Care
Summary
Academic Editors: Francis Ries, Parallel to the development of all-day schools in Germany, all-day schools are being introduced in Switzerland, especially in urban areas. This leads to children and adolescents’ being able to spend more time at school, during lunchtime and after lessons in the afternoon. With regard to school-related physical activities, extended educational sports activities become more important in all-day schools [5]. These activities include supervised sports classes after lessons, unsupervised opportunities during lunchtime, and free physical activities during recess, as well as before and after lessons. These opportunities enable a movement-oriented rhythmization of the school day and connect the students to their living environment [3] (p. 437)
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