Teaching students to be a sport through, well, sports

Play hard, but be gracious. Go all out, but remember sportsmanship. These are the kind of values that the Singapore Sports Council aims to impart to students through physical education (PE) and sports, with the use of a new framework. Under the new "Character and Leadership through Sport" framework, teachers and coaches will receive broadly-designed lesson plans, from games to role-play, which they can customise for students. More than 450 teachers and students from schools including SMU, Evergreen Secondary and Admiralty Primary, have taken part since the programme's pilot started last June. SMU undergraduate Oh Zhan Yuan, 22, said of the programme: "I realised that values can be imparted more effectively through experience rather than being explained verbally." The framework is part of the "Game for Life" toolkit launched by the sports council yesterday at the inaugural Leadership Symposium at SMU, where Senior Minister of State for Law and Education Indranee Rajah was the guest of honour.

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The Straits Times