Tanzania Standard I Syllabus - Developing Sports & Arts

This information is based on the 2023 Primary Education Syllabus Standard I-II from the Tanzania Institute of Education.

Developing Sports and Arts falls under the main competence "Appreciate culture, arts and sports." This competence has five specific sub-competencies:

• Appreciate one's culture and that of other people: Activities include identifying Tanzanian foods and clothing, and dancing and singing traditional songs. Assessment involves recognizing these cultural elements. Resources include real objects, models, charts, picture cards, drums, and flutes.
• Demonstrate religious tolerance: This specific competence is taught by religious leaders. Activities involve explaining the beliefs of others and participating in social activities. Assessment focuses on demonstrating understanding and participation. Resources include pictures, wall charts, marker pens, real objects, and audio-visual materials.
• Demonstrate ethical practices: Activities include performing actions that demonstrate ethics and showing care for others. Assessment involves observing these demonstrations. Resources include pictures and audio-visual materials.
• Create simple works of arts: Activities include using hands to plait, draw, paint, sing songs, recite poems, perform simple dances, and plays. Assessment involves observing the creative process and performance. Resources include color, paint, manila cards, colored pens/pencils, songs, poems, and drums.
• Participate in various sports: Activities include performing simple body exercises focusing on agility, balance, and coordination. Assessment involves observing the performance of these exercises. Resources include models, charts, pictures, and cards.

This syllabus also emphasizes the development of other key competences:

• Listening and Speaking: Developing listening and speaking skills in different contexts, including imitating sounds, relating words to objects, following instructions, introducing oneself and others, naming body parts, and using common greetings.
• Reading: Recognizing letter sounds, letter-sound relationships, reading fluently, and reading for comprehension. This involves activities like pronouncing letter sounds, identifying individual sounds in words, blending sounds to form words, reading single-syllable words, and reading short sentences.
• Writing: Developing pre-writing and basic writing skills, including practicing fine motor skills, tracing letter shapes, writing letters, and joining letters to form words and sentences.
• Arithmetic: Recognizing the concept of numbers, using mathematical operations, and using mathematical concepts. This includes activities like identifying numbers, tracing and writing numbers, arranging numbers sequentially, adding and subtracting numbers, and identifying basic shapes.
• Kumudu stadi za awali za Kiswahili: This competence focuses on developing early literacy skills in Kiswahili.
• Care for health and the environment: Caring for one's health and that of the immediate community, observing objects in the environment, protecting oneself from hazardous environments/situations/substances, and demonstrating a positive attitude towards the environment. Activities include caring for one's body and clothes, avoiding hazardous situations, identifying road signs, and participating in environmental activities.