Sport (HPE)

The Green Shoots Health and Physical Education (HPE) programme builds five core skills and attributes, working at an age-appropriate level throughout the school:

• Motor skills development, and physical expression
• Sporting practice, methods, and tools
• Understanding of rules, roles and responsibilities
• Physical fitness and general health
• Appreciation of physical and sporting culture

Students link their physical education with other subjects in keeping with Green Shoots’ holistic approach to learning: Notions of scale, distance and speed are tied to mathematical problem solving; biological concepts feed into issues like the body’s centre of gravity and an understanding of how sporting technique and progress can influence body shape; while teamwork, sportsmanship and the role of sport in society help children develop respectful civic relationships. 

Sporting activities are influenced by the seasons and rotate between:

• Individual sports: Swimming, middle distance running, athletics
• Team sports: Volleyball, basketball, football, rugby, dodgeball‍
• Physical skills: Gymnastics, dance, circus, stilts, wrestling
  

Green Shoots secondary students participate in sporting competitions with other schools in central Vietnam, with each school taking turns to host the event. Our students compete under the banner of the Green Shoots mascot, the Unicorn; an emblem chosen by students to symbolise the school’s magical qualities.