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Discover how Yuan Ching Secondary's PE programme builds skills across six sports, outdoor education, and enrichment activities to foster active, healthy living.

Last updated 12 August 2026

Key Programmes

Five men pose for Yuan Ching Secondary School 2025 Physical Education Department group photo on blue background.

Department Overview

Introduction:
The PE Department of Yuan Ching Secondary School identifies and implements innovative changes that positively affect the school and the community. We are trailblazers and futurists who exemplify the spirit of innovation in the development of our educational approaches with strong work ethics, creativity, foresight and the use of technology to achieve developmental excellence.

Department Vision: To enable YCSians demonstrate the physical skills, practices, and schools values (IExCEL) to enjoy a lifetime of active, healthy living.

The PE Department aims to enable YCSians demonstrate the physical skills, practices, and schools values (IExCEL) to enjoy a lifetime of active, healthy living. The PE curriculum in Yuan Ching is designed to develop in our students the ability to demonstrate their skills and values across a variety of sports and in outdoor education, provide them with authentic situations where they can apply what they have learnt so that they can be confident participants and responsible citizens in the future.

In 2020 and 2021, PE lessons were impacted due to the Covid-19 situation. During the circuit breaker period, students attended lessons through Home Based Learning (HBL) and PE lessons were conducted through Student Learning Space (SLS) and Google Classrooms. Students were tasked to keep themselves physically active by challenging themselves to do fitness conditioning at home periodically. Also, Outdoor Education lessons and game concept applications were conducted through SLS to elicit responses and assess students for understanding.

Post circuit breaker, PE lessons continued with Safety Management Measures in place. With these restrictions, the objectives of PE lessons were mainly to keep students active and also make purposeful connections between students’ learning experience and what they can relate to in the current situation. PE teachers reinforced Physical Health and Fitness content during this period and the importance of staying active and being socially responsible to the people around them. Fitness conditioning with safe distancing and small-sided games with safety measures were organised in order to keep students active.

Despite all the adversities COVID-19 situation and changing education landscape have presented to us, the learning of our students is not hampered as different possibilities presented itself in alternative ways. For instance, our students had the opportunity to engage in virtual runs, virtual dialogues with athletes of various sports, sports scientist, practitioners and even home fitness challenges.

The Physical Education Programme in Yuan Ching Secondary School builds on the foundation of quality movement laid at the primary school level. The students’ mature performance is enhanced across different specialised situations and physical activities, so that students become competent and enthusiastic participants.

Yuan Ching Secondary School offers six different physical activities. In these physical activities offered by the school, students will be provided with instruction and the opportunity to participate competently. They should also be able to carry out the physical activities independently and safely on their own beyond school.

Six Physical Activities offered in Yuan Ching Secondary School:

  • Athletics (Running – sprints, middle & distance running)

  • Athletics (Field events & team events)

  • Ultimate Frisbee (Territorial-Invasion)

  • Volleyball (Net-Barrier)

  • Softball (Striking-Fielding)

  • Elective Racket Game (Net-Barrier)

In addition to the six physical activities highlighted above, students will also experience Outdoor Education and Physical Health and Fitness modules at every level.

Allocation of learning areas and physical activities by level is shown below:

Table showing Secondary 1-4 learning areas with percentages and hours: Physical Activities 60% 30hrs, Outdoor and Health 20% each.

Enrichment Programmes
Annual Track and Field Meet
Annual Cross Country
Cohort Camps
Sports and Games Carnival
Unstructured Play
Sports Education Programme

Teachers

HOD / Physical Education and Co-Curricular Activities: Mr Muhammad Irfan Bin Hussein

SH / Physical Education and Co-Curricular Activities: Mr C.Ganesh

Department teachers

Department Teachers

Mr Foo Say Kin

Mr Sonny Liang Lai Hup

Gallery

A group of boys in matching black shirts run together on a sports field during a school event.

11-Legged Race during our Annual Track and Field Meet

A group of students in red shirts jump over a long rope on a running track at a stadium.

Mass Skipping during our Annual Track and Field Meet

Five children sit together under a green tarp shelter held up by sticks, outdoors on grass surrounded by trees.

Outdoor Education on Building a Shelter

Children in orange shirts playing tug of war outdoors on a grassy field with trees in the background.

Team Building Activities during Cohort Camps

Children in orange shirts sit on the ground making peace signs, with metal camp cookware and bottles between them.

Outdoor Education on Outdoor Cooking

Four children wearing yellow life jackets sit on linked black rubber tubes in shallow water, smiling and holding paddles.

Water Rafting

A group of children sitting on a floor in a circle, looking at and pointing to a large printed map.

Outdoor Education on Orienteering

Two groups of young people play frisbee on a grassy field surrounded by green trees.

Annual Sports and Games Carnival

A team of people in grey shirts and headbands pulling a rope in a tug-of-war on a grassy field.

Annual Track and Field Meet – Tug of War

Two young male runners compete in a relay race on a red track, each holding a baton, with a crowd in the background.

Annual Track and Field Meet – Team Relay

Students in orange shirts exercise on an outdoor basketball court with yellow cones, buildings visible in the background.

Sports Education Programme – Tchoukball

Children in orange shirts and helmets practice inline skating on an outdoor court near school buildings.

Sports Education Programme – Inline Skating

A martial arts instructor in a white gi demonstrates a technique to students in orange shirts on blue mats.

Sports Education Programme – Taekwondo

Two side-by-side photos of young runners with race bibs competing outdoors near buildings and trees.

Annual Cross Country

Students in black outfits run in unison on a field with their ankles linked, participating in a team coordination activity outdoors.
11-Legged Race during our Annual Track and Field Meet