Source Title: Beijing brings snow and ice sports to campus nearly 2.1 million primary and middle school students go on ice and snow
Chinanews.com, Beijing, December 27th (Reporter Chen Hang) Since 2017, the Beijing Municipal Education Commission has continued to carry out a series of popularization activities of “Ice and Snow Entering Campus”, producing animations of ice and snow sports, collecting excellent lessons of ice and snow sports, and gradually integrating ice and snow sports. Bringing into the campus and integrating into the curriculum has achieved initial results. Up to now, popularization activities and experience classes have entered more than 600 schools in 16 districts, covering more than 500,000 students. According to statistics, the number of primary and middle school students in Beijing on ice and snow has reached nearly 2.1 million.
Liu Xiaoming, deputy director of the Beijing Municipal Education Commission, mentioned the above content at a series of press conferences in Beijing’s host city for the 2022 Winter Olympics and Paralympics on the 27th.
Extensively carry out “Ice and Snow Entering Campus” activities
Liu Xiaoming said that in recent years, the Beijing Municipal Education Commission has strengthened overall planning, focused on coordination, and implemented multiple measures simultaneously to comprehensively promote the popularization of campus ice and snow sports.
One is to widely popularize ice and snow sports among elementary and middle school students. Since 2017, the Beijing Municipal Education Commission has continued to carry out the “Ice and Snow Entering the Campus” series of popularization activities, produced animations of ice and snow sports, collected excellent lessons of ice and snow sports, and gradually brought ice and snow sports into the campus and integrated the curriculum, and achieved initial results. Up to now, popularization activities and experience classes have entered more than 600 schools in 16 districts, covering more than 500,000 students. According to statistics, the number of primary and middle school students in Beijing on ice and snow has reached nearly 2.1 million.
The second is to actively hold ice and snow events in primary and secondary schools. Among them, the Beijing Winter Games for Primary and Middle School Students has been held for 6 consecutive times since 2016, which can be called a business card for Beijing campus ice and snow sports events. The number of participants has gone from more than 500 at the beginning to more than 1700 now; the competition has gradually developed from fun projects such as ice puzzles and snow climbing to short track speed skating, figure skating, curling, ice hockey, alpine skiing, and singles. Professional events such as snowboarding; the competition period has also lasted from the first one month to the present for nearly two months. The Winter Games for Primary and Secondary School Students has become a platform for schools in various districts to display the level of ice and snow sports and the results of student training, and it has also cultivated ice and snow in Beijing. Sports reserve talents provide strong support.
The third is to vigorously create a cultural atmosphere for the Winter Olympics on campus. In recent years, the Beijing Municipal Education Commission has organized activities such as simulated Winter Olympics, Winter Olympics keynote speeches, Winter Olympics experience days, Winter Olympics camps, collection of themed art works, and watching international high-level ice and snow events, so that elementary and middle school students can learn about the culture of the Winter Olympics. , Feel the spirit of the Olympics. The Beijing Winter Olympics Knowledge Contest for elementary and middle school students has also been held for three times. Through the selection and active participation of classes, schools, districts, and cities, it has become a vivid carrier for Beijing to popularize ice and snow sports and spread Olympic knowledge. Recently, Xicheng District organized and carried out the theme activity of “Ice and Snow, Winter Olympic Dream” Winter Olympic Knowledge Contest for elementary and middle school students. 104 schools in the whole district participated in the activity and 64,871 people participated in answering questions, which received very good results.
The fourth is to develop and build a model school with characteristics of ice and snow sports. The Beijing Municipal Education Commission has built 200 special schools for ice and snow sports and 200 demonstration schools for Olympic education in the city. Schools in all districts are actively exploring, adapting measures to local conditions, focusing on popularization in courses and interest in activities, and gradually formed a two-level characteristic model school layout in the urban area, laying a solid foundation for the campus to carry out ice and snow sports and Olympic education.
Actively radiate to serve the surrounding communities
Liu Xiaoming stated that under the overall guidance of the municipal level, schools in all districts of Beijing make full use of regional advantages, actively tap resources inside and outside the school, vigorously promote the popularization of campus ice and snow sports, and extensively carry out winter Olympic education.
First, the district level makes overall use of resources inside and outside the school to create conditions for campus ice and snow sports. According to the overall design of the school district, Dongcheng District has installed seasonal ice rinks on campus in some qualified schools to meet the needs of students in the entire school district to experience ice and snow sports. Daxing District uses the social classroom practice base to provide conditions for students to participate in ice and snow skills training. Yanqing District adopted the government to purchase social services and organized teachers and students to train in social ski resorts. A total of 30 schools and more than 100,000 students participated in ski training.
The second is to encourage schools to take the initiative to tap potential resources and drive the joint development of neighboring schools. The High School Affiliated to the University of Science and Technology Beijing is building an ice rink on campus to spread the ice project, and actively radiate to serve the surrounding communities and school districts. As a special ice and snow school, Beijing No. 101 Middle School has strengthened cooperation with sports colleges, and used the artificial lake on the campus to build an outdoor ice rink to carry out skating, ice hockey and other projects.
The third is to explore characteristic development of the school and make every effort to promote the construction of campus ice and snow culture. Dongcheng Qianmen Primary School uses the promotion of the ice and snow project to combine the knowledge of ice and snow sports with the knowledge of subjects such as Chinese, mathematics, and English to explore the construction of a curriculum system of “discipline integration”. Dianchang Road Primary School in Shijingshan District used the after-school service hours to carry out a series of Olympic education themed activities such as the simulation of the Winter Olympics and the torch relay ceremony.
Build a brand for youth sports events
Liu Xiaoming mentioned that the Beijing Municipal Education Commission will continue to work closely with relevant departments to take the opportunity of hosting the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics and the Winter Paralympics to firmly establish the concept of “health first”, adhere to “no sports, no education”, and focus on ” Combine the popularization of sports events with the characteristic development of schools and students, further improve the system and mechanism, and continuously promote the high level of campus ice and snow sports in terms of building an integrated sports curriculum system, promoting the improvement of the comprehensive literacy of physical education teachers, and building a brand for youth sports events. , High quality and sustainable development. Taking ice and snow sports as a breakthrough, further strengthen school sports work, deepen the effect of “sports people”, let students enjoy fun in happy sports, strengthen their physical fitness, improve their personality, temper their will, and benefit for life.
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