This study describes and analyzes how the Students Games influence the social construction of a Rio de Janeiro municipal school curriculum. It also recognizes the announcements (ideologies) conduced with the school's participation in these events. For data collection interviews with the teachers involved and ethnographic observations of the sports offices and of the games were applied. The results let us consider that the discourse of the sports efficiency contributes to the legitimation of the physical education at the investigated school and also for recognition of the school itself excellence. Likewise, the pedagogical activities focus on results and not in all student's education.
Sports; Physical Education; Curriculum