Zimbabwe Form 1 Physical Education Syllabus

This syllabus outlines the Physical Education curriculum for Form 1 students in Zimbabwe, covering a range of topics designed to develop learners physically, socially, emotionally, morally, aesthetically, and cognitively. The syllabus promotes lifelong physical activity, health, and the development of enterprising skills. Safety is paramount in all activities.

History of Physical Education and Sport

• Foundations of Physical Education: An introduction to the history and development of physical education.
• Foundations of Sport: An introduction to the history and development of sport.

Health, Safety and Environment

• Nutrition, Diet and Physical Activity: Focuses on balanced diets and their relationship to physical activity. Includes identifying important food groups, key components of a healthy diet, and distinguishing between healthy and unhealthy foods.
• Substances and Anti-doping: An introduction to substances used in sport, their sources, and the concept of substance abuse.
• Sport Injuries and First Aid: Covers the causes and types of sports injuries, basic first aid principles, and the contents and use of a first aid kit.

Human Body Systems and Performance

• Human Body Systems: Explores the functions of the skeletal system, including bone classification and types of muscles. Introduces the major parts of the circulatory and respiratory systems and their major organs.
• Exercise and Fitness: Focuses on health-related fitness components and their benefits.

Game Skills

• Athletics: Track and Field: Covers the history of athletics, rules, and basic skills and events.
• Aquatic Skills: Introduces the history of aquatics, basic strokes, life-saving skills, pool hygiene, and water polo.
• Invasion Games: Explores the history, characteristics, safety rules, and basic skills and equipment of invasion games.
• Net Games: Covers the history, characteristics, safety rules, and basic skills and equipment of net games.
• Striking Games: Introduces the history, characteristics, safety rules, and basic skills and equipment of striking games.
• Target Games: Covers the history, characteristics, safety rules, and basic skills of target games.
• Educational Gymnastics: Introduces the history of educational gymnastics, basic apparatus, safety rules, physical conditioning, and fundamental movement patterns.

Sport Enterprise

• Club Concept: Explores the concept of sports clubs, their organization, stages of formation, roles of stakeholders, and reasons for forming clubs.

Adventure Activities

• Adventure Games: Introduction to camping and orienteering activities.

Mass Displays

• History of Mass Displays: Explores the foundations and historical development of mass displays.
• Arena Choreography: Focuses on developing themes and choreography for mass displays.
• Background and Performance Music: Explores the use of stimuli and rhythm in mass displays, including recorded music, instrumental music, and song.

This syllabus uses a variety of teaching methodologies, including demonstrations, practice, discovery learning, problem-solving, games, quizzes, storytelling, role-playing, group projects, and educational tours. Assessment is both continuous (75%) and summative (25%), encompassing practical tasks, written tests, and research projects. The continuous assessment includes practical topic tasks, written tests, and research projects. Summative assessment consists of multiple-choice, structured, and practical demonstration papers.