Students at Publick School No. 12 learned about parkour through a project using wiki resources from the British Council. Their English teacher created a wiki page to introduce the topic. Students then researched the history and practice of parkour in subgroups, with one focusing on origins, another on parkour in Georgia through local interviews, and a third on parkour in the UK. Each group created a poster and blog content on their topic. Students collaborated on a blog and online brochure to share what they learned about the physical discipline of parkour.

1. Publick school No 12

2. Veriko Michitashvili – English teacher
Tsotne Japharidze – student
Manana Manvelishvili – student
Giorgi Surameli – student
Maia Papuashvili - student
Project Designers

3. Ana Abisonashvili - student
Giorgi Sanakoevi - student
Sopi Tsutskiridze - student
Giorgi Mtvarelidze – student
Elina Gozalovi - student
Project Designers

4. 1. Students get acquainted with the resources of British Council
2. Teacher creates a wiki and introduces it to the students
3. Students are divided into 3 groups and each group is given questions to
discuss in groups to choose the topic of the project with the help of wiki.
4. Groups come up to the topic of the project / Parkour/
5. Students are provided with the vocabulary connected to the parkour
6. Each group is given the sub-topics to search for information. Group 1 –
the origin of parkour ; Group 2- parkour in Georgia; Group 3 – Parkour in
the UK
7. Each group makes a poster of the given topic and presents it in front of
the class.
8. Students make a blog and put their information about parkour, interviews
with traceurs in Gori , photos and their own videos there.
9. Students make an online brochure and put it on the blog
Action Plan

5. 10-9 excellent 8-7 good 6- 5 average 4-3 poor 2- 1 very
poor
Content The topic is
introduced clearly
and accurately
The topic is
introduced fairly
and accurately
The topic is
introduced
unclearly and
inaccurately
The ideas are not
clear
The ideas are very
difficult to
understand
Organization Well organized and
perfectly coherent
Fairly well
organized and
generally coherent
Loosely organized,
logical but
incomplete
sequencing
Ideas disconnected.
Lacks logical
sequencing
No organization;
incoherent
Vocabulary Very effective
choice of words.
Effective choice of
words
Adequate choice of
words
Limited range.
Confused use of
words
Very limited range.
Grammar No errors Almost no errors Some errors Many errors Dominated by
errors
Assessment rubric for groups

6. Students got acquainted with the
resources of British Council

7. Teacher created a wiki and introduced
it to the students

8. Students worked in groups of three in the
wiki, asking questions in writing to come up to
the topic of the project

9. http://veriko.pbworks.com

10. The topic was chosen and the students were
provided with the vocabulary connected to
the topic - Parkour

11. Group 1 – The origin of Parkour
Group 2 – Parkour in Georgia
Group 3 – parkour in the UK

12. The origin of Parkour – Group 1
Parkour developed in
France. The goal of
Parkour is to move from
one place to another as
quickly and efficiently as
possible, using the
abilities of the human
body. Parkour
practitioners are called
traceurs.

13. The most well-known
founding figure of Parkour
is David Belle, who learned
about the méthode
naturelle discipline by his
father back in the 1980s.
The group he trained in
came up with the term
“parkour,” which came
from “parcours du
combattant“, an obstacle
course used to train
soldiers of the French
military.

14. David left school at the age of 16 and his father helped him
to make him stronger. David and his classmates began to
create new actions to train . They named it parkour

15. Parkour becomes more and more popular in the world.
All the same is in Georgia. In our city we often meet
children and adults, who are moving along a route,
typically trying to get around or through various
obstacles in the quickest and most efficient manner
possible, as by jumping, climbing, or running.
Parkour in Georgia – group 2

16. Parkour in Gori
We found out
that there is a
small team of
traceurs in our
town, so we
decided to get
more
information
about them. We
asked them for
interview

17. Interview with the members of the
parkour group – EFEX in Gori
Four members in the group : Achi, Levan, Sargo, Vazha
They’ve been training for 2 years near the district at
Tsmindatskali. They took part in the competition at
Redbull art of motion in Batumi

18. The performance of EFEX- filmed by
our group members

19. The School of parkour in Gori, interview with
the trainer of parkour

20. The performance of the future traceurs in
Gori – filmed by the members of our group

21. In great Britain parkour is a common sport. Parkour UK is the
National Governing Body for the rapidly growing discipline.
It is a member of the Sport and Recreation Alliance
Parkour in the UK – group 3

22. One of the famous traceurs
Ryan Doyle. A World champion parkour athlete. He
was born 22 September 1984. He is from Liverpool

23. MarcusWilson
17-year-old Marcus has
been practicing parkour for
years and his talents
haven’t gone unnoticed by
theWorld Freerunning and
Parkour Federation (WFPF).
Marcus started practicing
parkour at the age of 13 in
his home town of Beccles,
Suffolk, he practices it for
around eight hours a day.

24. Each group made posters of their topics and
presented in front of the class.
Group 1 - the history of parkour

25. Group 2 – parkour in Georgia

26. Group 3 – parkour in the UK

27. A blog
Ana Abisonashvili
made a blog and each
group put the
information about
parkour, their
interviews,photos and
their own videos there.

28. http://parkourefex.wordpress.com

29. Students learnt how to design an online
brochure and placed it on the blog

30. Thanks for watching