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Health and Physical Education (HPE)
Health and Physical Education is oered to all pupils at the primary level. The key emphasis of the
curriculum is to provide pupils with knowledge and skills to empower them to take care of their own
health and the health of others, as well as the environment. Pupils are provided with an
understanding of good health practices and habits pertaining to nutrition, physical exercises and
hygiene,thus,contributing totheirpositivephysicalgrowthandhealth.The successofthecurriculum
would be determined by pupils taking health enhancing decisions, practising good health habits
and exhibiting socially responsible behaviours.
This pupil’s workbook provides a series of instructions for the Health and Physical Education syllabus
of the Primary School. It covers topics/activities on “Healthy Eating / Food Safety”, “Substance use
and abuse” and “Balances/Kids Athletics, Mini football and Mini handball”. A variety of learning
experiences have been presented to the pupils and it is equally important that pupils apply what
they have learnt in this domain.
A note to teacher
To enable meaningful learning to take place in the classroom, it is recommended that teachers
employ a variety of teaching approaches that would suit the dierent learning styles and abilities of
their pupils.
This book contains a variety of activities for children to learn and to probe further so as to enrich
themselves.
Allactivitiesaresimple,needverylittleresourcesandarerelatedtoeverydaylifecontext.Theactivities
proposed will help learners to discover and investigate concepts for themselves in an engaging way.
Itisexpectedthatteachersusetheintegratedapproachaswellasinfuseconceptssuchasintercultural
values, safety and scientic knowledge while they are teaching the concepts.
Assessment is in-built throughout the units. At the end of each unit, an evaluation sheet is provided
to check whether learning outcomes have been met.
We sincerely hope that this workbook will help and encourage our pupils to learn and practise good
health habits, thus keeping them t and healthy.