Building Resilience and Confidence with PE and Sport
18 Sep 2019
The mission of the PE department at Huili School Shanghai is:
“Through maximum engagement and a focus on excellence, we will develop physically literate
pupils who possess a passion for movement through sport, whilst maintaining the highest levels of
character and a lifelong love of physical activity.”To achieve this, building our pupils
resilience and confidence is a priority. We want every child to develop their character and resilience
by having access to a variety of activities to stretch and challenge themselves, learn about success
and failure, explore winning and losing, delve deeper into excellence and teamwork and develop into
well-rounded leaders.
PE and sport at Huili looks at provision beyond the constraints of many a school sports
programmes, which often tend to focus on traditional team games with the aim of winning
competitions in order to bring prestige to the school.
Here at Huili, we want to promote ‘physical literacy’ which includes the development of
‘character’ as well as bodily strength.
Everyone can and should become a physically educated person. Everyone can learn to move and then learn how movement might allow them to flourish in ways that are relevant to them and their lives, even if they do not want to actually play sport.
Movement is a way to build character and resilience. In sports you learn to fall down, in order to get up again. You learn to win; you learn to lose; you are part of a team; you have a role; sometimes, you learn to sit on the bench; even how to manage getting hurt.
There are so many elements of sport that help you build your confidence and resilience to naturally emerge.
Sport builds resilience along with life skills, so our programme here at Huili doesn’t just teach sports to our pupils, we also have a curriculum that teaches life skills. It teaches confidence, for example, how to use voice in sports leadership positions. It teaches negotiation amongst peers, health and wellness.
Many PE teachers see pupils develop quickly. Initially, when receiving a ball, a child might drop it or it hits a part of their body , because they have not yet developed the coordination to catch the ball.
Later, often in a matter of weeks, they are playing basketball or volleyball, happily and enthusiastically, having quickly mastered the rudiments of the game. In these cases, there is a somatic, physical change occurring in the body, one that can be felt on a number of levels.
It is often accompanied by a feeling of: "Gosh. That didn't feel good but I'm going to get up again and I'm going to do this." This is an example of resilience in action here at Huili.
Tips from Department of PEHere are some suggestions and guidance from the Huili PE department for you to consider when developing
your child’s confidence and resilience:
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