Catégorie : Sport values

One month, one painting : Sports in Barbados

Sheena Rose (b. 1985) is a visual artist from Barbados whose practice includes painting, drawing, performance art, … Rose’s works, painted with her signature bright colors and featuring retro graphic patterns, deal with issues related to politics, stereotypes, gender, and identity in historical and contemporary contexts, whether she’s painting celebrated athletes or a landscape featuring a vibrant sunset in Barbados.

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One month, one sculpture : Celebrating the Paris Olympics, « Salon » by Alison Saar

The opening of the Paris Summer Olympics in 2024 marked the unveiling of a new public artwork by Saar in the Charles-Aznavour Garden on the city’s Avenue des Champs-Élysées. The monument, titled The Salon, depicts a Black woman holding an olive branch and a golden flame, surrounded by a circle of chairs that viewers are welcome to sit upon. It

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One month, one painting : Dublin’s Liffey swim by Jack B. Yeats, Ireland

This expressionist painting from 1923 captures the excited crowd attending The Liffey Swim – an annual swimming event that continues in Dublin to this very day. First run in 1920, the Liffey Swim is the oldest annual swimming race in Europe. Over 500 swimmers of all ages, abilities and nationalities compete to win the Cup! The scene shows ordinary spectators

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Video – « La Couleur de la Victoire »: l’histoire de Jesse Owens en cours d’anglais de la 6e à la 3e

Notre collège porte le label Génération 2024, ce qui a permis à l’équipe pédagogique d’anglais d’obtenir les droits de diffusion en classe du film « La couleur de la Victoire ». Toutes les classes de 3e et 4e ont visionné le film tandis que les 6e et 5e ont travaillé sur des extraits choisis.

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The Big Challenge – Fun video : unusual British sports

« Britain is a land that is proud of its traditions: its monarchy and historical monuments, its old villages… But are the British really as respectable and dignified as they seem? Everyone knows that the British love sport. But not just traditional sports like football or rugby or cricket. From mud racing to worm charming and from pole climbing to cheese

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