The overall project for the development of school physical education and sports in the period 2016-2020, with a vision to 2025, has been approved by the Prime Minister: In the 2016-2020 period, striving to have 100% of high-school institutions regularly maintaining morning exercise and break-time exercise, at least 50% of which provide swimming lessons for trainees; 50% of kindergartens, 70% of general education institutions, 80% of vocational education institutions and higher education institutions organizing the teaching or dissemination of traditional Vietnamese martial arts; at least 80% of preschools having playgrounds and physical education classrooms equipped with minimum equipment and toys for children according to regulations…
Putting traditional martial arts into schools is increasingly being promoted and popularized.
Continuing to promote the development of traditional martial arts in high schools, the Vietnam Administration of Physical Training and Sports has just issued a plan to organize training courses for grassroots instructors on developing the movement of practising traditional martial arts at high schools by 2020. Participants are cadres, teachers, coaches and sports collaborators from the Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism; Department of Culture and Sports; and Departments of Education and Training of provinces and cities across the country.
It is expected that each class has about 150-160 trainees. Each province and city appoints 7- 8 trainees, including 1 officer of the Sports Management Division of the Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism, the Department of Culture and Sports and 1 officer of physical education under the Department Education and Training; 5 – 6 PE teachers or instructors of traditional martial arts at high schools (2 people at each grade level).
According to the plan, the training class was held in 3 areas: the North composing trainees from 25 provinces and cities, trained from May 23 to 29, 2020; the Central Region – Central Highlands with a group of trainees from 19 provinces and cities, trained from September 15-21, 2020; and the South with trainees from 19 provinces and cities, trained from October 22 to October 28, 2020.
The training program will focus on the following contents: Introducing the history of formation and development of Vietnamese traditional martial arts; disseminating legal documents and National regulations on the development of Vietnamese traditional martial arts; Guiding the preparation of a movement development plan to practice traditional martial arts for children and trainees in schools; Guiding training methods and competition organization of traditional martial arts for children and high school pupils; Discussing and exchanging experience among units and localities on the popularization of traditional martial arts to children and high school pupils; Training 3 basic exercises and 3 advanced exercises; and examining and evaluating training results, issuing certificates to trainees after completing the training content and program.
In recent years, Departments of Education and Training have sent core physical education teachers to participate in many training classes about the development of traditional martial training movement development plans created and organized by the Ministry of Education and Training: 27 movement exercises for primary school pupils, 36 movement exercises for secondary school pupils and 45 movement exercises for high school ones. Up to now, almost all provinces and cities nationwide have seriously implemented and successfully brought traditional martial arts into high schools.
Traditional martial arts at schools is a healthy playground for pupils.
Through mass sports activities and especially the Master Plan for the development of physical strength and stature of Vietnam in the period 2011 – 2030, the General Department of Sports and Sports has implemented many activities to promote the physical training movement, extracurricular sports, break-time gymnastics and traditional martial arts for pupils. Some outstanding activities can be mentioned, for example, 144 schools with 76,313 pupils participating in this traditional exercise and martial arts exercise in Phu Yen. In Hanoi, there are 10 primary schools with over 400 pupils and 63 primary schools in Ho Chi Minh City with more than 70,000 pupils practising physical exercises every day, before school in the morning or during the break time. Also, in Bac Giang, all 274 primary schools in the province with more than 145,000 pupils perform these exercises every day…
This shows that the introduction of traditional martial arts into schools is being more and more promoted and most of it has been popularized and implemented in schools in many provinces and cities nationwide. Practising traditional martial arts will help pupils stay away from unhealthy games and form good character and martial spirit, improve the sense of discipline, perseverance, hard work, and improve health for study.
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