Sports – Programmes

Throughout the year there are different aquatic activities led by monitors in the municipal swimming pools of Bendinat, Son Ferrer, Son Caliu, Santa Ponça, Peguera and Calvià. In the summer months, swimming and aquagym courses are also held in Magaluf and Es Capdellà.

Activities

• Babies
• Children’s swimming
• Swimming for adults
• Preparatory swimming
• Adapted swimming (for people with functional diversity)
• Aquagym
• Aquagym for seniors

 Osventos – More information: coordinacioncalviaosventos@gmail.com

This programme includes several stages guided by expert Nordic walking instructors. The routes run through urban and natural areas of the different population centres of the municipality. Nordic walking consists of walking using the propulsion of poles in the hands. It is an easy activity to learn, suitable for all population groups and very healthy, as it involves cardiovascular work with the intervention of a large number of muscle groups.

Activities

• Route in Portals Nous
• Route in Santa Ponça
• Route in Peguera
• Route in El Toro
• Route in Es Capdellà

 More information: www.calviadeportes.com

ICE and ‘the Llar de Calvià’ promote a physical activity programme for the elderly to transmit the importance of active and healthy ageing, through good life habits, the practice of physical exercise, among others.

Activities

• Aquagym
• Gymnastics for the elderly

This programme is aimed at people with functional diversity. There is one personalised session (maximum two people) of 30 minutes per week. The duration of the programme is from September to June.

Activities

• Swimming adapted for people with disabilities

 More information: calvia.informacion@emergencies-setmil.es

Thanks to this programme subsidised by the ICE and offered to public primary schools in the municipality of Calvià, children can enjoy a first contact with water activities and water sports. It is aimed at pupils in the first and second year of primary school and is carried out during the third term of the school year as curricular content in the subject of physical education.

Activities

• School swimming
• School canoeing
• School sailing

 More information about school swimming: calvia.informacion@emergencies-setmil.es

 More information about sailing and canoeing school: escueladevela@puertoportals.com

‘Jocs Esportius Escolars’ are four extracurricular sports activities offered by the AMIPAs of the public nursery and primary schools, subsidised by the Institut Calvianer d’Esports. The programme is carried out from October to May and includes periodical days with the collaboration of the Direcció Insular d’Esports del Consell de Mallorca (Sports Department of the Consell de Mallorca).

Activities

• Motor games (Infant Education)
• Basketball (Primary Education)
• Athletics (Primary Education)
• Sports dance (Primary Education)

The municipal sports schools are characterised by the development of sports education activities for initiation, development and specialisation outside school hours in municipal sports facilities. Their public prices favour children’s access to sport.

Activities

The sports clubs of the municipality of Calvià carry out during the Christmas and Easter holidays and the summer months some technical training days for the boys and girls who train in them during the season. This activity promotes the practice of physical exercise among the youngest of the municipality and encourages sport as a healthy lifestyle habit.