The Present Situation And Strategy Research Of Sunny Sports In High Schools

In recent years, the physique of domestic elementary and secondary students has shown a downward trend, which has attracted public concern. The National School Sports Work Conference held in December2006, presented several measures to improve students’physical health, including the nationwide Sunny Sports Programme. On May7,2007, CPC Central Committee and State Council issued a document named Suggestions on Strengthening the Youth Sports and Improving Their Physique ([2007] No.7)(hereinafter as Suggestions). In this document,20pieces of requirements were put forward to strengthen the youth sports and improve their physique. The issue of NO.7document not only provides a guideline for carrying out Sunny Sports among young students, but also creates a new situation in the school sports as a pioneering document. Therefore, the climax of carrying out Sunny Sports is set off all over the country. However, there are various problems during the specific implementation process, so it is quite necessary to conduct a survey on the implementation of Sunny Sports in elementary and secondary schools so as to find out the existing problems and put forward the corresponding countermeasures.In the past few years, the implementation of Sunny Sports in Henan province has made great achievements. This paper has certain significance since its research is conducted among the first eight Nanyang high schools, provincial models of Sunny Sports Programme. Owing to the diversity of factors influencing Sunny Sports Programme and the limitations of the research&time, this paper could not cover everything. It can only focus on some important fields according to the requirements and conditions of the research. This paper adopts several research methods, such as documentation, questionnaire survey and mathematical statistics.1039students and69physical education (PE) teachers have been investigated in8high schools in Nanyang. The investigation includes:the situation of students participating of Sunny Sports Programme in Nanyang provincial demonstrative high schools; the cognitive attitude of students towards Sunny Sports; exercise time; the implementation of "Standard" in various schools; sports and health courses; parents’cognition of Sunny Sports; teachers’ qualification in Nanyang high schools; the leaders’attention. After analyzing the main exisiting problems, several targeted suggestions are put forward in this paper.Through the analysis of carrying on Sunny Sports in Nanyang provincial demonstrative high schools, the conclusions are as follows:1. The propaganda is not enough and the students’awareness is rather low. The attention paid to Sunny Sports is relatively little in the whole society.2.In Nanyang, there are no such organizations in most high schools that should be set up according to the provisions. And the established organizations can not play their own roles positively due to the unclear division of labor.3. The shortage of venues and equipment has great influence on students’enthusiasm and effect of participation in sports.4.Physical education focuses on competitions, without considering the practical situation to develop modern sports. Therefore, the teaching content is monotonous, which can not satisfy the actual requirements of most students.5.PE teachers are not enough in Nanyang. They do not get equal pay for equal work and their continuing education is not guaranteed.6.Most supervision from all levels of educational administrative departments still remains in the macro aspect. Evaluation and feedback system has not been well established and the school work implementation is lack of supervision.7.In order that students can avoid safety accidents in sports, schools take a negative prevention to reduce students’exercise time and cancel the antagonistic sports, ignoring their feelings.Finally, the corresponding countermeasures are put forward in the paper to solve the existing problems during the implementation of Sunny Sports Programme in Nanyang high schools:1.To pay attention to the cultivation of sports awareness, change traditional sports ideas, optimize the social environment of sports, build up an atmosphere of favorable public opinion, and enhance the self-consciousness of mass physical exercises.2.To increase investment, strongly support the hardware and software construction of Sunny Sports in high schools, and provide material guarantee for Sunny Sports Programme by perfecting venues, facilities and equipment.3.To optimize the class teaching of physical education, improve its teaching quality, enrich extracurricular sports activities and make after-class exercises a system.4.To strengthen organization and leadership inside the school as well as establish an organization management system.5.To improve the levels of PE teachers, such as their ideological&moral quality as well as professional skil1.6.To manage and perfect the evaluation mechanism, take effect and performance of implementing Sunny Sports in every high school as an important standard to evaluate and examine the school, which should be put into practice by taking drastic measures and strengthening the inspection.7.To eliminate the potential safety hazard, create good environment, and avoid the safety accidents in sports so as to promote the smooth development of Sunny Sports Programme.Through taking the above measures to arouse public concerns for students’physical health, the implementation of Sunny Sports can get mutual support from families, schools and society, in order to win more meaningful time for the students to participate in Sunny Sports Programme and finally realize "Standards for advanced, strong physique".