Red Sports spoke with Dr Low Chee Yong, Head of Sport Science, from the the National Youth Sports Institute (NYSI), an agency under the Ministry of Culture, Community and Youth, to get a deeper understanding of the science behind the proposed review of primary school sports.
When Singapore Slingers’ Ng Hanbin captained his primary school team at Kong Hwa school, he could only lead his team to fourth in the zonal competitions before their season ended as the other schools continued on to the national championships. But if Hanbin were to play in the National School Games in the next couple of years, his season might not have ended at the Zonals.
By 2015, all secondary school students can look forward to taking part in at least three inter-class sports competitions.
Kang Rui Jie and Rachel Lee won the Overall Best School Boy and Girl Awards respectively for 2011. The awards were given out at the 41st Singapore Schools Sports Council (SSSC) National Colours Award Presentation.
The Ministry of Education (MOE), Singapore Sports Council (SSC) and StarHub are collaborating for the second year running to broadcast the National School Games (NSG) on StarHub’s sports channel SuperSports Arena (Starhub TV Channel 201), available free to all StarHub TV customers.
The Committee on Safety in School Sports (CSSS) has concluded that the Ministry of Education’s (MOE) sports safety framework is largely sound, and is generally in line with international best practices. The Committee also found the governance framework for sports competitions to be robust, with the appropriate checks and balances to ensure that governance and safety issues are well looked after.
Darren Choy and Quah Ting Wen received the Overall Best School Boy and School Girl awards respectively at the 40th National Colours Award Presentation. Darren, from the Singapore Sports School, won the World Byte Championships in 2010 and 2009 while Ting Wen, from Raffles Institution, won five gold medals at the 2009 SEA Games.
While medals naturally make the headlines, a lot of background work goes on to build an ecosystem that breeds that success. The Singapore Sports Council (SSC) is the lead statutory board under the Ministry of Community Developement, Youth and Sports (MCYS) that is focused on building this ecosystem. However, in Singapore's context, the role of the Ministry of Education (MOE) is also crucial.
