PE teachers gear up for next year's new syllabus

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To get ready for next year's revamped syllabus, around 600 Physical Education (PE) teachers became students themselves in a two-day workshop.

Called the Enhancing My School's PE Curriculum workshop, these teachers were taught how to plan their lessons to meet the challenges of the new syllabus, which makes it compulsory for all secondary school students to take part in at least three friendly matches with schoolmates.

That means students need to be able to pick up the fundamentals of a chosen sport within a 10-week school term, said Victoria Junior College PE head Tan Yew Hwee, who took part in the workshop in August.

"At the end of the 10 weeks, I have to make sure they can play, for example, a three-on-three basketball game. We can't teach everything, so we just teach the necessary skills to play a small basketball game," he told The Straits Times.