Physical Education Department

Vision

Every student is active, healthy, physically competent and socially adept.

Mission

Empower students with physical knowledge, skills, practices and values to enjoy a lifetime of active, healthy living.

School Values

Respect, Responsibility, Resilience, Integrity, Care, and Harmony (R3ICH)

Youth Olympic Values

Respect – fair play; knowing one’s own limits; and taking care of one’s health and the environment
Excellence – how to give the best of oneself, on the field of play or in life; taking part; and progressing according to one’s own objectives
Friendship – how, through sport, to understand each other despite any differences (friendship above competition)

PE Department Approach in PE

Education in Movement (psychomotor), through Movement (affective), about Movement (cognitive)

A.C.T.I.V.E.

Play Approach in PE	Safety at Play
Play Hard (Grit)	Think Safe
Play Fair (Respect, Empathy, Integrity)	Play Safe
Play Safe (Graciousness)	Stay Safe

Key Events and Activities

EGPS Holistic Health Programme

Active and Healthy Living (AHLI)

Purpose

In Evergreen Primary School, the Holistic Health Framework (HHF) guides us to bring together purposeful manner the key areas, programmes and processes that develop the physical, mental and social health of our students.

Process

The HHF focuses on the total well-being which goes beyond weight and fitness to encompass the holistic development and domains of students’ well-being. We hope to develop the knowledge, skills and attitudes of every student to live healthily through quality delivery by trained teachers and qualified learning partners.

People

Our school PE department continues to work closely with our learning partners like HPB, NKF and ActiveSG to carry out programmes and bring in specialists to deliver quality and sustainable programmes.

Coaching by Teachers - Programme for students who need more support

This programme allows PE teachers to coach, encourage and motivate students to adopt and sustain their healthy lifestyle habits via a regular platform for students to meet the teachers to share their progress and lifestyle habits.

We strongly encourage parents to play an active role in the journey by sharing health and fitness related information and talks to help the students cultivate good lifestyle and eating habits.

Programmes

The annual Health Screening Programme by the School Health Services (SHS) under the HPB also allows us to gather valuable information on students’ health status. We are then able to use the relevant health information to ensure the safety and well-being of our students in school are in check.

In addition, at risk students will go for further assessment at the Student Health Centre (SHC) at HPB. Their progress will be closely monitored to help them attain a better health and physical fitness status.

Our yearly activities for students include:

Recess Unstructured Play - UPLAY
Recess engagement via AHLI info slides
Wholesome Wednesday (Fruittie & Veggie day)
Healthy Meals in School Programme (HMSP)
Active Youth Programme (AYP)
Kidney Health Education Bus – KFORCE (NKF)
SportSG / ActiveSG sports and fitness programmes

Impact

To generate fun element in PLAY and promote a positive attitude towards continual participation in physical activities for health, fitness and enjoyment.

Useful Links:

PE TGIF

For TGIF PE, P1 to P6 students went through a variety of challenges and workouts, giving them the opportunities to work and have fun as a class. The P6 students took part in three different challenges with the theme “Every Second Counts”. The challenges require the students to complete the task as a class as fast as possible, and it requires them to apply the skills learnt during PE lessons.

For the P1 to P5 students, they took part in a weekly e-TGIF to do our PE department signature workout video Start With Exercise Actively Together (SWEAT) series. Through these activities, students were able to strengthen the camaraderie bonds with their peers by working and exercising together.

In addition to the TGIF, a step challenge (Every Step Matters) was conducted as a school-wide event for the entire year. This challenge allows students to foster and develop stronger relationships between peers and families, and to start a healthy lifestyle to improve both body and mental health.

X-Games

The EGPS X-Games was conducted this year with the aim of providing sports exposure to Primary 4 to 6 students, allowing them to explore different sports and engage in physical activities. By participating in one of the six sports offered, namely Tchoukball, Kinball, Archery Tag, Ultimate Frisbee, Tag Rugby, and Goalball, the students had the opportunity to experience a variety of athletic disciplines. A follow-up to the X-Games was the extension to English lessons, where P4 to P6 students wrote a note of appreciation to affirm and acknowledge their peers or teachers who had helped them in one way or another.

This encourages them to recognize and express gratitude towards individuals. They were also required to write a journal entry to affirm themselves of the hard work that they had put in in overcoming the challenges they had faced. The students are encouraged to acknowledge their efforts, grit, and growth in the face of adversity. The X-Games serve as a platform for students to engage in sports, explore their interests, and cultivate positive values through active participation, which of course, embodies the EGPS P.L.A.Y. approach.

UPLAY & UREAD

Unstructured play (UPLAY) and unstructured read (UREAD) recess programme is a new initiative by the department to give students the opportunity to be actively and meaningfully engaged during their recess. This programme allows students a choice to occupy their free time besides eating to be g engaged through unstructured play or reading during their recess time.

For UPLAY, PE equipment such as badminton racquets, basketball and more are provided and set up for them daily at the parade square for the students to play freely with their peers.

For UREAD, students get to go to the school library called Storyhouse that houses a wide variety of books for students to read their favourite books.

Through this programme, students are given not only the opportunities but also choices on how they want to be actively engaged during recess according to their interest. This approach purports to achieve joy in learning for the students.

Swimsafer 2.0

The SwimSafer™ 2.0 programme aims to develop the students’ proficiency in swimming and equip them with water survival skills so as to minimize drowning incidents in a fun manner.

The programme which takes place at an Activesg Swimming complex, are taught progressively by trained swimming coaches throughout the semester.

At the end of the programme, each child will receive a stage completion certificate indicating their individual skill achievements.

For more details, please visit the SwimSafer 2.0 Programme website below.

https://www.myactivesg.com/Programmes/SwimSafer-Programme

P1 & P2 NEX

The National Education Experience (NEX) is an event for the Primary 1 and 2 students to experience and gain a deeper understanding of Singapore’s history and culture. The students were exposed to the different traditional games such as chapteh, five stones and more, follow-up with the school’s National Day Celebration. This is to allow the students to identify themselves proudly as Singaporeans, pledge unity and togetherness and weather challenges through Grit and Integrity.

Get Active! Singapore (GASG) National Day Workout

The GASG workout in EGPS is an event that is a collaboration with ActiveSG in conjunction with the school’s National Day celebration to promote health and fitness for all staff and students. The GASG activities come in 2 segments.

The first segment is the introduction of the Active Health Play Mat to our staff and students to allow them to assess their own fitness by engaging in interactive and fun strength exercises anytime, anywhere using the play mat.

The second segment is a month-long Get Active Star Challenge where the students complete different challenges to get as many stars as they can, to claim the Get Active medal award. Students also had to participate in the Get Active! Singapore Dance of a Nation workout and also show their creativity and passion in the different challenges.

P6 PEX

At the end of the Primary 6 journey, a 2-Day Post-Exam Experience in-school camp was organised as a post-exam activity for the Primary 6 students who had successfully completed their PSLE. Students were given the opportunity to experience Outdoor Education Experience (OEX) and Intra-Class Games Experience (ICGX) during these two days.

Students were not only able to forge stronger camaraderie with their peers and teachers, but they were also given the chance to be exposed to survival skills such as first aid and knot tying during OEX, and also to demonstrate the school values such as Grit and Empathy when they participated in the modified Paralympic games such as Boccia during ICGX.

P5 Outdoor Adventure Learning Camp

Outdoor Camping is one of the ways that can used to build Grit, as students can learn problem-solving and leadership skills. Using the outdoors as the ‘classroom’ for learning, students are provided with the opportunity to work together with their peers. Students also embrace diversity and forge camaraderie and social bonds that can last a lifetime. Teachers joining the students during the camp also help to strengthen the Teacher-Student relationship through out of classroom interactions.

The P5 Camp was held this year at Pasir Ris Heritage Chalet, to build on the above mentioned objectives. Students underwent a variety of outdoor learning activities as they worked together in their groups. It was a fun-filled and meaningful 3 day 2 night camp which culminated in a campfire highlighting individual class performances.

At EGPS, we strive to provide a mix of learning experiences for each student, with purpose and passion.