PE curriculum aims to help students:
Develop motor and sports skills and acquire knowledge through physical activity, and cultivate positive values and attitudes for the development of a habit of doing exercises;
Acquire good health, physical fitness and body co-ordination through leading an active and healthy lifestyle;
Promote desirable moral behaviour, co-operation in communal life, ability to make decisions and appreciation of aesthetic movements;
Become responsible citizens who contribute to the building of an active and healthy community
The six strands are:
- Motor and sports skills;
- Health and fitness;
- Sports-related values and attitudes;
- Knowledge and practice of safety;
- Knowledge of movement;
- Aesthetic sensitivity
Learning and Teaching The following principles should be adopted to make the learning and teaching in PE more effective:
To provide safe environment for learning and teaching;
To have a high physical activity level and maintain sufficient active learning time in lessons;
To provide a wide range of activities to cater for learner diversity;
To have fun and enjoyable experience while taking part in physical activities;
To arrange various activities to facilitate students to apply the skills and knowledge in PE;
To enhance students’ learning effectiveness, teachers should keep abreast of the latest development of PE and sports;
To adopt a life-wide learning approach and encourage students to participate in co-curricular physical activities.
Secondary 4 to 6, senior secondary PE Elective
Curriculum Aims The PE Elective curriculum aims at enabling students to:
Acquire the knowledge and skills, and develop the values and attitudes necessary to pursue an active and healthy life in a self-regulated manner;
Become responsible citizens who contribute to the building of a healthy community and are themselves vigorous, vital and able to convince others to adopt an active and healthy lifestyle;
Integrate physical skills with theoretical learning and use them to support and strengthen their conceptual understanding and higher-order thinking;
Construct knowledge by linking the understandings they develop in PE, sport and recreation with those in other disciplines, and make use of this knowledge in further education and career development;
Apply theories to enhance performance or participation in PE, sport and recreation;
Develop positive sport-related values, attitudes and desirable moral behaviour, and transfer them to their daily life;
Develop the generic skills for lifelong learning.