School basketball is a collective activity that combines technical skills, tactics, and sporting values. At the school level, it is practiced in an educational environment with age-adapted rules, focusing on progressive learning and the participation of all children. Basketball is ideal for developing coordination, reaction speed, strategic thinking, and cooperative work.

During the season, players attend weekly training sessions and participate in competitions within the JEE program, where the result is not the most important factor: fair play, respect, and team cohesion are primarily encouraged.

Objectives

Technical objectives

• Master basic skills: dribbling, passing, receiving, and shooting.
• Introduce and refine body control in movement: changes of direction, braking, and turns.
• Learn defensive positioning and the basic principles of individual defense.
• Develop game vision and the ability to make quick decisions.

Tactical objectives

• Understand and apply simple situations: space occupation, passing lines, and off-ball play.
• Promote orderly defense-to-attack transitions.

Personal and social objectives

• Improve self-confidence when facing technical challenges and matches.
• Accept defeat and celebrate victory with humility.
• Enhance perseverance, commitment, and responsibility toward the team.
• Foster respect for opponents, referees, and teammates.

Methodology

Training methodology

• Active warm-up: mobility, coordination, and rhythm games.
• Individual technique: dribbling, shooting, and passing exercises in progression (from simple to complex).
• Small-sided tasks: 1×1, 2×2, and 3×3 games to enhance decision-making.
• Collective tactics: simple situations adapted to the level (space occupation, attacking 1v1, ball circulation).
• Small-sided games: with adapted rules to emphasize the session’s objective (e.g., no dribbling allowed, only passing).

Centers where the activity takes place: