On March 9, the Guangdong Provincial Department of Education issued the "Guangdong Province Deepening the Reform Plan for School Sports Evaluation in the New Era (Draft for Comment)" (hereinafter referred to as the "Plan").

The "Plan" proposes to promote the reform of the sports high school entrance examination. From 2022, the new students will adopt the "quality evaluation (30%) + unified examination (70%)" sports high school entrance examination model, and the sports high school entrance examination results account for 12% of the total admission score Weights are included in admission scores.

Elementary and middle school students are required to engage in at least 70 minutes of campus physical activity every day

  The "Plan" requires that the main responsibility of school sports work should be strengthened.

Primary and secondary schools build an integrated teaching model of "health education + basic sports skills + special sports skills", and start all physical education classes.

Give full play to the function of sports people, strengthen the integration of sports with moral education, intellectual education, aesthetic education and labor education, and promote the all-round development of students.

From 2025, physical education courses will be offered at all stages of higher education.

Encourage schools to develop and utilize online physical education courses and balance high-quality physical education resources.

  Actively organize sports activities.

Primary and secondary schools should arrange no less than 30 minutes of physical activity between classes every morning, and students should be arranged to go out of the classroom to exercise and relax in moderation between classes.

After the afternoon class on the day when there is no physical education class, arrange no less than 40 minutes of physical activity (training, competition) to ensure that primary and secondary school students have one hour of campus physical activity every day.

Appropriate allocation of sports homework.

All types of schools should establish a school sports competition system for all students.

Strengthen the construction of school sports teams and actively participate in sports competitions at all levels.

Spring and fall student sports meetings (or sports festivals) are held regularly each year.

Establish and improve the risk prevention and control mechanism for school sports.

Appropriate subsidies for physical education teachers

  Strengthen the construction of sports teaching staff.

According to the requirements, there are strong physical education teachers, and physical education teachers are encouraged and supported to participate in business training and study visits.

Scientifically determine the workload of physical education teachers according to regulations, and provide physical education teachers with necessary work clothes and teaching equipment in accordance with relevant national and provincial policies.

According to the characteristics of outdoor teaching of physical education teachers, appropriate subsidies and caring incentives will be given in accordance with relevant regulations.

Physical education teachers enjoy the same treatment as teachers of other disciplines in terms of job title promotion and evaluation of teaching and scientific research achievements.

Increase the recognition of physical education teachers to ensure that physical education teachers occupy a certain proportion.

Encourage qualified regions and primary and secondary schools to hire qualified retired athletes, coaches, retired soldiers with sports expertise and other professionals to serve as full-time (part-time) physical education teachers or coaches (researchers) through the purchase of services.

Vigorously Develop Lingnan Characteristic Sports

  Vigorously develop Lingnan characteristic sports primary and secondary schools.

Improve schools, grades, classes, and team sports teams with special sports, strengthen the integration of sports and education, and support cooperation with sports schools and social sports clubs to jointly carry out training and competitions.

Schools can incorporate traditional Nantou sports such as swimming, martial arts, dragon boat, dragon and lion dance, shuttlecock into school-based curriculum according to their own characteristics, and give full play to the educational function of traditional sports.

Strengthen the construction of stadium facilities

  Strengthen the construction of stadium facilities.

In accordance with the national and provincial standards and specifications for the construction of school sports venues and the allocation of teaching equipment, increase the construction of school sports hardware.

Establish a system for replenishing and maintaining sports facilities and equipment.

Encourage qualified schools to build and share with local sports venues.

  Strengthen the physical health of students.

Improve the "National Student Physical Health Standards" testing system.

The test results are linked to the evaluation of school education and teaching work, the performance assessment of relevant responsible persons, and the assessment of students' comprehensive quality and academic level examinations.

Primary and secondary schools should objectively record students' daily sports participation and physical health monitoring results, and provide regular feedback to parents.

Incorporate school sports work into assessment indicators

  School sports work is included in the assessment indicators.

School sports work is included in the government's supervision and evaluation system for fulfilling educational responsibilities.

Every year, provinces and cities conduct supervision and evaluation of the governments under their jurisdiction to perform school sports duties and improve students' physical health.

The school sports work and its effect should be regarded as an important indicator of the evaluation of running a school in colleges and universities, and it should be included in the evaluation index system of the construction of "double first-class" and "double high" in colleges and universities.

The province conducts a special inspection of the school sports work in the province every 5 years.

Rewards will be given to those with outstanding achievements in school sports work.

Adopt the mode of "Quality Evaluation (30%) + Unified Exam (70%)" Physical Education Entrance Examination

  Since the new students admitted in 2022, the "quality evaluation (30%) + unified examination (70%)" sports high school entrance examination model will be adopted. The weight of the sports high school entrance examination score accounting for 12% of the total admission score of the senior high school entrance examination will be included in the admission score.

Among them, the "Quality Evaluation" results are the results of "Daily Participation + Physical Fitness Test"; "Unified Test" adopts the mode of "Required Test + Selection Test + Elective Test". content.

  In addition, a classification evaluation by grades is carried out.

Elementary school students focus on their daily participation and compliance with the "Physical Fitness Standards", junior high school students focus on the physical education high school entrance examination, high school students focus on the physical education academic level examination, and college students focus on their usual grades and "Physical Fitness Standards" compliance.

Those who do not pass the sports scores will not be allowed to graduate.

  (Headquarters reporter Zhao Jing and Zheng Shu)