Active kids are better learners

Clarita A. Natividad

NOW that students are learning at home, many are left wondering about Physical Education, which is part and parcel of every learner’s school experience.

This is where the partners of the Department of Education come in, like Milo Philippines, which has always recognizes that health and fitness contribute to a child’s academic performance.

The DepEd has partnered with Milo and the Philippine Jump Rope Association (PJRA) on an initiative that is in line with DepEd’s blended learning program for the new academic year which formally kicked off on Monday, Oct. 5.

Jump ropes will be distributed to the DepEd, wherein this program is an expansion of Milo’s online sports program, the Milo Home Court campaign that aims to empower parents to continue their kids’ champion journeys at home.

The tripartite partnership between Milo, PJRA and DepEd adds another dimension to Milo Home Court’s thrust by providing Physical Education teachers with instructional knowledge on the fundamentals of jump rope – it being a viable and accessible sport for kids to get active even while indoors.

Milo believes that active children are better learners – that is why they recognize that health and fitness contribute to a child’s academic performance. This partnership will equip teachers with the tools and materials to help the nation’s youth espouse an active and healthy lifestyle, the DepEd said.

Through established linkages with sports experts, Milo will lend instructional materials developed in tandem with the PJRA so that kids can engage in sports and discover their love for jump rope.

Meanwhile, lessons on the sport will be integrated to the Music, Arts, Physical Education and Health (MAPEH) curriculum.

The DepEd welcomes the support of their partners in empowering teachers and students with resources that will augment its blended learning program.

According to the DepEd, is is important that it optimizes the expertise of its partners to be able to enrich students’ learning experience, especially now that the academic year has opened.

Meantime, video lessons and exercises from Milo and PJRA will be available on the DepEd Learning Commons, the online module repository for students and teachers, as well as on the Milo YouTube channel, along with other instructional videos from the Milo Sports Clinics Online.

Both Milo and PJRA said they are glad to be of service to the education sector, especially to the teachers who are vital in nurturing the youth in today’s new learning system.

They said that by giving teachers the proper training, kids will be introduced to a sport that can be a fun recreational activity, and at the same time, a viable competitive discipline.

The author is Teacher

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III at Fortuna Elementary School, Floridablanca West

District, Pampanga