MOVE Congress 2019 presentation by Amy Chan, Active Schools Hong Kong, in the track 'Discovering new perspectives on physical activity promotion among school children' on 18 October.
MOVE Congress 2019: Amy Chan Active Schools Hong Kong
2. • A non-profit organisation
established in 1996.
• Aim to gather Elite athletes
to serve the community.
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3. • Population 7.5m
• GDP ranked 17th ahead of
Germany, Canada,
Belgium and France
• Medium age is 43 years
old
• 587 Primary Schools and
37,2465 students in Hong
Kong
• 472 Secondary Schools
and 32,5498 students in
Hong Kong
• Primary and
Secondary about 10%
population in this sector
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4. • Hong Kong students
lack physical
activities : they
spend far too much
time indoors
studying and video-
game playing.
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7. Vitality and positive
energy into schools by
promoting interesting
activities with
professional sports
training and holistic
development.
Sports activities are the
extracurricular activity
Breakthrough to bring
sports activities in
school curricula
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8. Active School
brings more fun
to each lesson.
School syllabus Active school
Sports
Traditional sports
(eg. Football volleyball,
basketball, track and
field)
Bring in 59
sports with
diversity
(eg. Floorball,
Floor Curling,
Nerf Hunt,
Wushu, Active
Dance)
Form of sports Regular form of sports Modified sports
Numbers of
teacher /
Coach
1 2-10
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9. Over 80,000
of students have
benefited from the
project.
Participated schools in 2012-2019
2012 2019
12 Schools 183
Schools
12. We have total 36organizations
offering 55 sports events
Associations
NSAs
Volunteer
Organisations
Colleges and
Universities
13. GETTING ACTIVE IN SPORTS
Understanding sports and the Active
School Programme participation and
implication
Research Results
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14. Target
respondents
• Parent-child pairs consisted of students in
Primary 4-6 from the 10 schools
• Most participated in the Active School
Programme since 2013
Methodology
• Online survey of 15 minutes
• Parent-child pairs were recruited via
schools participated in the Programme
Sample size
achieved
• Total: 613
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15. 4 in-depth paired
interviews with parents
and children
2 focus group discussions
with school principals and
PE teachers
16. Students spend 74minutes
on sports per day on average,
but still, around half of them
have
less than 60 minutes of
Sports as per the WHO’s
recommendation. The situation
is even worse on weekdays or
in school.
>90
26%
60-<90
25%
40-<60
21%
30-<40
12%
20-<30
7%
10-<20
7%
1-<10
0%
0
1%
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17. 1
2
3
4 or
more
NO. OF PE CLASSES IN A WEEK AND
ARRANGEMENT
45% Double Lesson
55% Single Lesson
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Milestone
School
Principals
Team of
Instructors
/Coaches
Complementary
Activities
Financial
Expanding from
governing sports
Association to other
volunteer sports
organization with good
high quality sports
qualifications.
• Create a core group of
principals (principals)
• programme design based
on a very practical input
• start with pilot 12 schools
in 2 semesters
• Start with individual
sports and then build
up the scale
• Then we can able to
find title sponsor – the
Hong Kong Jockey
Club
• Marketing – create theme
songs, dance, students
sports reporter, mega
sports evenets
22. “Active school” was implemented in 180 primary
schools during 2019/2020 academic year and will
further get more popularity among all primary
and secondary schools in town.
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• Government crossed
department for sports, health,
and education are now
supporting the Active School
Programme
• We belief that we can create a
more healthy lifestyles to start
young and for the rest of their
lives
• Active school to Active
community
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With the success of Active
School, we further extended our
services to local communities by
offering different sports activities
for different age groups, including
-Parent & Child Yoga for house-
wives & their little kids,
-Wushu for youngsters,
-Active Dance for elderly, etc.