When the school started, Xiao Song, a fifth-grade student at the Shanghai First Normal Affiliated Primary School, went home and reported a good news from his parents: "We have physical education classes every day this semester, and there are two physical activity classes. I'm so happy I can go to the playground every day! ”
In the new school year, on the curriculum of Primary School students in Shanghai, physical education classes have quietly become the "main class" - one physical education class per day, two physical activity classes per week, and 7 hours of physical education class a week, becoming one of the subjects with the most scheduled classes.
This also means that the "three lessons, two exercises and two activities" curriculum arrangement implemented by primary schools in Shanghai since 2003 has officially become "five lessons, two exercises and two activities": that is, five physical education classes and two physical activity hours are arranged every week, and radio fitness exercises and eye health exercises are arranged every day.
There are physical education classes every day, which has become the "standard" of primary schools in Shanghai, plus sports activity classes and the "sports recesses" implemented by many schools, and the goal of "one hour of exercise in school every day" has been achieved in many schools.
The curriculum adds a variety of projects
In the interview, the reporter found that how to do this "addition", each school has different practices: for example, Yangpu Primary School will rearrange the physical education class of the whole school, and use this extra physical education class to increase the teaching of special physical education, such as the first and third grades will open a new sports dance class this semester, and the second and fourth grades will add bridge courses. "In the 5 physical education classes, we hope to give the children more special physical education lesson experience, and in the other two activity classes, the physical education teacher will pay more attention to improving the physical fitness of the students." Zhao Jinghan, deputy principal of Yangpu Primary School, said.
Putuo District Xunyang Road Primary School has a total of 7 full-time physical education teachers and nearly 800 students, which is enough to ensure that the first to fifth grades are fully covered to carry out "5+2" physical education. Physical education teachers have different specialties: aerobics, football, athletics, baseball, basketball and fencing, which meet the individual needs of students and also make "menu-style" physical education classes possible.
New fifth graders also received a special questionnaire: "Please select the 2-3 sports I would most like to study." This excited the children: girls don't like boring running and jumping shots, they can practice with the school's aerobics pedigree teacher, they can also play with synchronized jump rope, and boys can freely choose football, basketball or athletics - menu-style physical education class, saying goodbye to boring physical education class, making the 35 minutes on the playground come alive.
The first division attached the primary school arranged the special curriculum into the physical education curriculum of each grade: chess, basketball, tennis, swimming and football courses were "walked" into the curriculum of the first to fifth grades. "We would have arranged for each grade to participate in a sports program, and from this year onwards, classes will be more full, and children will have more time to learn and exercise." Liu Hengwei, head of the physical education teaching and research group of the first division attached to the primary school, introduced it.
Staggered classes to ensure quality and quantity
There are 59 classes attached to the first division, and according to the "5+2" curriculum arrangement, 295 physical education classes need to be arranged a week, which is a full 82 more physical education classes than the previous semester.
This year, on the basis of the original 14 physical education teachers, the school introduced 2 new teachers, seconded 2 physical education teachers from the sister school, and hired many professional external coaches to form a "16+2+n" teaching team to ensure the arrangement of "one physical education class per day".
However, unlike other disciplines, the physical education class has very high requirements for the venue, which also makes many schools encounter venue problems when doing increments.
In the process of exploration, many schools have used their brains to arrange small playgrounds at the wrong time, break down space barriers, and "give birth" to many sports spaces to ensure the needs of students' outdoor physical education classes.
The reporter found that Yangpu Primary School will put the physical education class that was only placed in the afternoon in the first two classes "wrong peak", and some schools will arrange the physical education class on Friday afternoon, or before the afternoon school, in order to make better use of the venue, put the physical education class in place, and achieve a certain load required for physical education teaching.
In terms of venue arrangement, the school has also used its brains.
Xunyang Road Primary School has an artificial grass football field with an area of 1376 square meters, a breathable runway of 259.4 square meters, and a 176 square meters of artificial turf thickening activity area. But compared to nearly 800 students, the venue is still stretched if classes are held at the same time.
How can students be fully active? The school divides the playground into five areas with fixed sports: area one is dedicated to high jump and football; area two is used to practice baseball and high jump; area three is a running track, the project is running and long jump; area four is a small playground where students can practice climbing and throwing; area five is an asphalt area, which is dedicated to jump rope, rhythm, tumbling and martial arts - the place is small but complete.
Zheng Yu, deputy principal of Xunyang Road Primary School, said that the school's physical education teachers adjust the teaching content according to the division of the venue area, and each class rotates the activity area once a day to ensure that each student can practice different content in each area every week, so that students can make full use of the "every corner" of the school to try a variety of sports projects.
The students of the First Division Primary School were pleasantly surprised to find that in the new semester, they could go to the roof of the teaching building to take physical education classes. Originally, the school used the summer vacation to build a cage-type stadium on the roof of the building with a 6-meter-high fence net, opening up another "small playground" for students.
"Pedi class" 35 minutes away
The playground every morning belongs to the children attached to the first division - children of each grade can have one day a week, as soon as they arrive at school, they will go to the playground to "check in", put down their school bags and exercise for an hour and then go to the classroom.
"Our goal is for children to be able to exercise for one hour a day at school." Zhao Jinghan said that although students have five physical education classes and two activity classes a week, they still can't reach the "one-hour" exercise time, "so we use all the time available to encourage students to go out of the classroom and participate in sports." ”
In the past, after two classes in the morning, Yangpu Primary School had half an hour of "big recess" time for radio exercises and physical exercises. This year, the school has fine-tuned the curriculum to expand from half an hour to 40 minutes, guaranteeing 10 minutes of radio exercise time and half an hour of exercise time. Zhao Jinghan said: "We will set up a different theme of sports rings every month, and this half-hour outdoor time will be used to give children exercise and skills training. ”
Xunyang Road Primary School has arranged more sports clubs in the daily after-school deferred service: after 5 p.m., clubs such as flag football, curling, baseball, and football have been opened in full swing, and these clubs are taught by full-time coaches outside the school, and children can participate according to their own hobbies. Zheng Yu said that after 5 p.m., the school opened many types of clubs, of which the number of sports clubs is the largest, and from the perspective of children's registration, sports clubs are the most participatory.
Column Editor-in-Chief: Xu Ruizhe Text Editor: Gong Jieyun
Source: Author: Gong Jieyun