Xinhua News Agency Yinchuan, April 3 (reporter Zhao Qian, Ma Lijuan) a primary school has formed more than 250 teams? How do sports matches “Blossom” with academic performance “? As a small county located in the northwest, Zhongning county, Zhongwei city, Ningxia, has continuously promoted the activity of “Sunshine Sports entering the campus” in recent years by strengthening the strength of campus sports teachers and establishing the reward and punishment assessment mechanism for sports work, in order to promote the all-round development of students’ intellectual development and moral education.
Sports is good, learning is declining
As soon as the big break arrived every afternoon, the playground of No. 9 Primary School in Zhongning County immediately became noisy, especially basketball, football, table tennis and other ball sports venues, which were crowded by the small players. Last year, the “little horse” basketball team of this school won the runner-up of two groups in the Northwest Division of the National Small Basketball League.
“Little horse” is not unique in basketball in primary and secondary schools in the county. It is understood that in the 2018 National Small Basketball League Ningxia division finals, the Zhongning County team won four individual champions; Among the 8 teams promoted to the northwest region in Ningxia, Zhongning County accounted for 7, and won the runner-up of four groups.
According to Yin Jiancheng, deputy director of education and sports bureau of Zhongning county, in recent years, the education and sports department of Zhongning County has vigorously promoted the development of Sunshine sports in schools by carrying out basketball, football and roller skating into the campus, all schools have formed a good atmosphere of “one hour of exercise every day.
On the wall of the playground of the ninth primary school, the slogan “reading does not forget sports, sports do not forget reading” is very conspicuous. President Liu Xingxing told the reporter that the school has formed more than 250 basketball, football and table tennis teams. Practice has proved that learning and exercise can be both correct.
Yin Jiancheng said that through the annual assessment and evaluation, it can be found that the teaching quality of schools with good sports has declined. The ninth primary school not only won many awards in sports competitions, but also ranked first for 19 consecutive times in the county’s teaching quality inspection.
Campus Sports also promoted the moral education work in schools. The students of Qukou nine-year school located in the suburb of Zhongning County are basically from poor mountainous areas. Luo Qinxue, the vice president, told the reporter that combining with the tradition of playing basketball for the people in mountainous areas of Ningxia, the school promoted basketball as a key ball game, which not only enhanced students’ physical fitness, but also provided a platform for them to show their strengths, gradually the teachers found that the students became sunny.
Strengthen faculty sports into Assessment
The reason why the activity of “Sunshine Sports entering the campus” in Zhongning county was carried out well cannot be separated from the efforts of the county education department and the school in strengthening teachers and strict assessment.
— “School teachers + Sports Association” to improve the level of physical education teaching. According to the introduction of the education and sports bureau of Zhongning county, on the basis of providing sufficient full-time PE teachers for the school, the Education and Sports Department also implements the three-level training system of PE, and selects the backbone teachers of PE to participate in relevant training held by autonomous regions and cities, and hire experts from inside and outside the district to train physical education teachers in the county regularly. In addition, Zhongning County also sent professional coaches of sports associations to the school to cooperate with physical education teachers to train students through the form of government purchasing services.
— Establish a reward and punishment assessment mechanism for sports work. Wen Mingyu, director of the education and sports bureau, said that when formulating the detailed rules for the year-end teaching assessment, the Education and Sports Bureau included the school sports work into the assessment scope, and conducted a supervision and assessment once a year. Through the way of replacing the assessment with awards, mobilize the enthusiasm of the school.
— Improve the competition system and introduce large-scale brand competitions. Physical education teachers interviewed believe that although primary and secondary school sports mainly focus on cultivating interest, standardized and normalized competitions can further stimulate students’ sports enthusiasm and potential. At present, Zhongning County has established a class ball league system for primary and secondary schools. The county holds a table tennis and roller skating championships for primary and secondary schools every year, and holds track and field games for primary and secondary schools in spring and autumn.
It is understood that Zhongning County has introduced large-scale domestic and foreign sports events such as the National Youth Men’s Basketball Championship and China (Zhongning) International roller skating open in the form of government-led and enterprise participation since 2014, and invite sports stars to the campus to interact with students to promote school sports with social sports.
The concept still needs to be changed and the hardware still needs to be improved.
Wen Mingqi believes that there is still a gap in understanding of the overall development of children in the current society, especially in poor areas, poor academic performance may even become the reason for students to drop out of school. Therefore, governments at all levels, especially education authorities, should take the initiative to take responsibility, truly implement quality education to urban and rural schools, and instill the concept of “Happy Learning and healthy growth” into parents and students, guide the whole society to attach importance to the all-round development of children.
Some physical education teachers interviewed said that the sports infrastructure of primary and secondary schools in Zhongning County still needs to be improved. At present, there is no indoor gymnasium in primary schools in the county. Due to the cold weather in winter, some projects can only be interrupted. In addition, although the school is vigorously promoting roller skating into the campus in recent years, only one school has laid roller skating lanes outside the playground.
In this regard, Liu Mingxing and other principals hope that the government can further plus-sized investment in campus sports infrastructure, including improving the construction level of some sports facilities, building indoor sports venues, laying roller skating tracks, etc.
Teachers such as professional sports coaches also need to be strengthened. Yin Jiancheng said that although Zhongning County has supplemented some teachers through sports associations, there is still a large gap in professional sports coaches in the western region where talents are weak. He suggested strengthening the support of sports talents in the West and allowing more high-level coaches or athletes to teach in western schools.