What are the good practices of scheduling physical education (PE) lessons?
A4: As students should put on suitable clothing and footwear and do warm-up and cool-down exercises for taking physical activities, most secondary schools try their best to schedule double-period PE lessons, very often for the last two periods of the day or linking them to a recess or the lunchtime. Not only does it ensure the adequacy of students learning time in each lesson, it also creates space for including more educationally meaningful and more interesting elements in PE lessons. At present, the majority of schools provide students with two periods of PE lessons per cycle or per week (about 80 minutes). All schools are highly recommended to keep these effective measures to safeguard students entitlement to pursue a broad, balanced and safe programme that covers a variety of movement experiences. In PE, life-wide learning is the key to success. Therefore, learning in PE is not confined to lessons. Schools should encourage students to actively participate in co-curricular physical
