A Senior Government Official has reiterated the Ministry of Education directive that Physical Education be included in the school curriculum in Kabompo District in North Western Province.
Kabompo District Commissioner Rebbeca Mukuka said Physical Education should be incorporated in the school curriculum like any other subjects because sports played an important role in the physical and mental development of pupils.
Mrs. Mukuka made the remarks when she officiated at the ongoing North-western Province Schools’ Inter-zone Sports Festival at Kabompo High School today.
The District Commissioner said her office was actively monitoring schools to ensure that sports was taken seriously as is the case with other subjects in a bid to enhance the physical and mental development of pupils.
On the practice of marrying off school going child, she advised head teachers not to relent but be firm against parents who were perpetrators of such an act saying early marriages had caused havoc to the education of hundreds of girls in the North-western Province.
She said that girl children should be made to excel in sports activities because they have the potential to take the nation to higher heights.
Kabompo High School Head teacher Victor Tembo hailed Kabompo West Member of Parliament Daniel Kalenga for donating 16 gerseys, 12 pairs of socks, two footballs and one truck suit.
During the occasion, a total of K2 million was donated by local businessmen towards Volley and Football competitions which would be held to select one zone to represent North Western Province at this year’s Coca Cola Tournament billed for Kasama on July 4 -8.
Two prominent Manyinga and Kabompo businessmen Meers Danny Chingimbu and Morgan Luvweyi donated K1 million each towards the two competitions.
The zones competing are Kabompo-Mufumbwe, Zambezi-Chavuma, Solwezi, Mwinilunga and Kasempa.
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When did they take PE out of the curriculum?
thats the way to go!
More jobs for some guys
This is actually a very big problem in Zambia, especially with these small business schools. Everyone wants to make money but they do not actually consider the development of the child. None of these tuma small schools have football pitches or basketball courts. How are we supposed to create sports stars if they are not being trained from a young age?
P.E nowadays in most schools means cleaning school premises and slashing grass. Playing fields have been given out as plots by party cadres. Most kids don’t even know what basket ball is worse still table tennis. Shame!!!
Too many youths nowadays gone astray running after bling-bling and de hype, dem have no interest in sport. Schools need to introduce subjects like African Heritage and Culture to keep we tradition and hold the roots. From there, de youths will start thinking positive and tings like sport fall into place again. Believe me!
just provide the right facilities, PE is important, don’t waste your time.
True. Honestly to curb such vices as teen drunkeness and even the spread of HIV, kids have to know that there is more than one recreational activity (ie sex) in the world. We should start viewing PE as important, the way that the west does too.
Yah, i am also wondering when was PE quashed out of the sku curricula?
Its probably a mis reporting or the senior eduction officer doesnt know what she is talking about.
Any way, PE is good provided infrastructure to support it is available. How many primary and secondary schools in zed are having operational swimming pools? I remember in chingola, we had a swimming pool behind Nakatindi primary school. oooh its a sorry site.
I think what she was trying to say is that PE should be examinable like any other subject in the school curriculum so that the whole system can take it seriously.
Despite it having had been there, i only remember having had gone for PE when i was in Primary school, thereafter teachers focused more on how one can pass accdemic subjects and PE periods were used for revision work.
This whole issue of Physical Education and the school system need to be addressed at a high and more serious level than at a zonal school sports competition. This issue has a lot to do with what kind of philosophical educational direction we would like our young people to be brought into. In our country the interesting thing is that we seem to do things because other people do them without seriously reflecting on things and framing them towards a direction we would like to go as a nation.
In short we are simply going like headless chickens. We need an educational and sports philosophy if we really would like to benefit from Physical education like our West African friends.
#1 same question here. If she means examinable let her say so not introduce PE in the curriculum was she there when I was doing “garamoja” during PE which later became to be known to me as Rugby in the 80’s in primary school, maybe like every other DC she did not go through primary school.
“Kabompo High School Head teacher Victor Tembo hailed Kabompo West Member of Parliament Daniel Kalenga for donating 16 gerseys, 12 pairs of socks, two footballs and one truck suit.”
MAYBE SPELLING TOO.”GERSEYS” WHAT ON EARTH IS THAT?
Yaba but zoona so kulibe PE in schools that is very bad indeed. These children are missing a lot. we used to wear white P.E shorts or short PE those that where there. Thats why sport has gone down in schools and Zambia at large. Ma ma ine…we used to have inter houses and games like sack race…Egg on a spoon, a bottle of water on the head etc whatever the races were called. ok baiche wen i come i will donate 23 jerseys not gerseys….to my former school Rapheal Kombe in Kabwe and Maria Assumpta in Livingstone.
WE have always had PE? what we need is “Leadership Curriculum” at any early age? people need to understand the true essence of leadership…service, scarifice and not driving posh cars and amassing wealth at the expense of the poor? ma rubbish ya pa zed?
P.E & H.E ( Health Education) are a necessary components of the curriculum which need serious approach. We seriously need to take these disciplines into account as we reorm our education. They should be examinable
Shouls read as ” as we reform” not reorm.
Its really sad there is no PE .Take for instance here in sweden,PE is compulsory even in university.I remember when i was at Angelina Tembo in Kabwe, PE was compulsory.Then this ka Shortie came into power, distorted everything.We used to have PE teachers,where are they? This is not good for Zambia,no wonder we find it hard to have athletes like Matete .
Chiluba and the MMD destroyed anthing that Zambia had in our schools including PE. When is there going to be justice in Zambia so that we can see Chiluba in jail?
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