About 500 students from various secondary education centers in the province practice canoeing in the Tagus River in Talavera.
The Provincial Representative for Education, Culture and Sports, José Gutierrez, explained today that around 500 students of the first and second year of compulsory secondary education (ESO) participate throughout this month of May in a canoeing activity on the Pit River in Talavera de la Reina Are. ,
“An activity, made in the sports promotion line of the Somos Deporte 3-18 program, organized by the Sports Service of the Provincial Delegation of Education, Culture and Sports”, said Gutierrez, “It has as the main” Its purpose is to promote and disseminate the methods of canoeing among the school population and, with this, to achieve the promotion among students of regular sports practice.
Gutierrez, who was accompanied by Sergio Gutierrez, councilor of sports in the parlance of the Talavera City Council, shared part of this activity this morning with the students of the IES `San Isidro´ de Talavera, indicating that during this month the students Will enjoy games from other educational centers of the province such as IESO `La Jara` in Belvis de la Jara, IESO `Juan de Padilla` in Torrijos, IESO `Manuel de Guzman` in Navahermosa or IESO `Blas de Prado` in Camarena.
This activity is carried out in sessions of each educational center in the facilities of the Talc Club in Talavera de la Reina, for which Gutiérrez thanks them for their cooperation, and each of them has two blocks.
The first block is divided into two parts, a theoretical talk lasting 30 minutes, where students will learn about the importance of the Tagus River and its ecosystem in the province, and a short talk on the topic of canoeing in Spain, and a practical part. will end with It includes a river route through the Tagus River, in which students pass through the most emblematic areas of Talavera, visiting bridges, contemplating very special views of the city or in the most natural Tagus full of life and biodiversity able to enter.
In the second block, students will do a historical gymkhana, starting at the Prado Basilica and ending in the Prado Garden, where students will receive information and learn about the culture and heritage of Talavera through game play, track or questions. In a controlled and symbolic environment of the city.
Gutierrez emphasizes that this sporting activity is “very complete and very well received by the educational communities of the participating centers” and that “in addition to promoting regular sporting practice in the daily life of the students, this Providing and disseminating information in terms of canoeing also serves, through the river route they take, to raise awareness of the life of the Tagus River and its biodiversity, to teach, enjoy and claim.
In Gutiérrez’s opinion, it is also important to know the Tagus from the inside, “to be able to claim the necessary flow for the Tagus to be a living river as it passes through Talavera, because the river is also an identity and part of it.” City life, with our porcelain, our culture and our historical heritage.
In practically all activities offered by the Sports Service of the Provincial Delegation of Education, Culture and Sports, the activity is free of charge for the students and the displacement of the participants from the educational centers to the place where it is carried out is and it develops. He is in charge of the regional administration.
In conclusion, Gutierrez congratulates “all the students who have participated in this activity during this month of May that they enjoy and have fun” and thanked the educational communities of the participating centers “all those For their participation in the activities which are organized by the Regional Executive, as without their participation and efforts they would not be possible”.
