Research On The Current Situation And Countermeasures Of Popularizing Kids’ Athletics In Primary Schools In Yantai

Children are the hopes of motherland and builders of future society whose physical health is directly related to the physical constitution of a nation. And pupils’ physical quality has been a continuing concern to the government and whole society.Primary and secondary school period is critical for pupils’ physical growth and development. A sound athletic training in this period is not only beneficial of the improvement of basic athletic skills but also of the mental and physical development such as strength, endurance, speed and flexibility laying a solid foundation for development of physical fitness. However, the current operation of athletics in primary and secondary schools is not satisfying. Owing to the not-easy-to-master sport technique and students’ low interests, athletics is regarded as a boring content of physical education. Taking into consideration of pupils’ characteristics and impacts of traditional athletic evens, International Association of Athletics Federations(IAAF)introduces Kids’ Athletics to promote the healthy development of students.Starting from the analysis of Kids’ Athletics, this thesis presents its contents and features enabling the public to have a better understanding of it. On the basis of it,documentary study, mathematical statistics, questionnaire survey and logical analysis are acquired to analyze the current situation of kids’ athletics and relative countermeasures are presented in the end. Major findings of this thesis are revealed as following:1. None of the primary schools in Yantai belongs to the experimental schools for Kids’ Athletics. What’s more, there are only limited numbers of athlete events carried out in primary schools.2. Physical education teachers have a limited knowledge of athlete events and soft installation application. Their understandings about the procedure of introducing and operating Kids’ Athletics are vague.3. Primary school students from six distracts in Yantai have a low awareness of Kids’ Athletics.4. Funds invested in Kids’ Athletics of each school is lacking. And the communication between school and competent department is not enough.Based on the problems of current situation, this thesis presents the following implications :1. Each school and competent department should emphasize on physical education and promote the launching of Kids’ Athletics so as to improve students’ physical health and quality.2. The school need to strengthen the construction of PE teachers’ troops, optimize their age structure, develop their independent innovation awareness and renew their knowledge constantly boosting the teaching level of the whole school.3. The teachers are required to make full use of the advantages of Kids’ Athletics and soft installation to develop the versatility and overcome shortcomings of traditional sports equipment.4. Kids’ Athletics ought to be paid attention to at the fundamentals being and combined with physical education curriculum in order to calculate students’ love for life and sports and establish the consciousness of lifelong sports.