Daniel：

“The first reason was the environment since it has a big clean campus and a big playground. The breeze from the sea and the sight of the fog from the mountains also filled me with positive energy. This combination of space and good weather made the perfect recipe for sports and movement.

The second reason was the sports equipment that the school had. The PE Room literally has everything a PE teacher needs for a functional class. The use of modern equipment is the new age of sports and to find a school that has such equipment means that they care about the sport and physical health of their students.

In simple terms, MBS has a good sports culture and I wanted to be a positive part of this culture and environment, that’s why I chose MBS.”

学校的室内体育教室与室外攀岩墙

Daniel：

“Teaching at MBS has been nothing but positive! All the teachers are down-to-earth which contributes to a healthy working environment and the administration is quite poised, organized, and transparent.

MBS always strives for growth and excellence and so teachers are on a constant learning curve as they learn from each other through the use of our intranet network and innovative departmental open classes. My experience working here has been about growth, as I’ve learned a lot and continue to learn everyday.”

老师们在All Star篮球赛

MBS教师合影

Daniel：

“This is a very good question, since creating a good atmosphere for sports is one of the PE department's important objectives. Basically, we want to create an atmosphere that will generate a lot of interest in sports or sporting activities from our students. 

We want them to feel free and be expressive in PE class as we present them with creative games that require a lot of passion, teamwork, sacrifice, critical thinking, etc. We want our students to enjoy sports activities to the extent that their interest would not be diminished in the absence of the PE teacher. We want them to want to do sports because they love it, not because they are told to do sports. Our ultimate goal is to leave our students with a more positive self-developed interest in sports when entering high school.”

Daniel：

“这个问题问得很好。营造良好的体育氛围是体育科组重要的目标之一，我们希望能培养学生对体育的兴趣。在体育课上，我们给学生们提供创新性游戏，这些游戏需要学生投入热情、团队合作、奉献以及思辨，我们希望他们在体育课上踊跃表现自己。

我们希望学生能热爱体育活动，希望他们在没有老师在场的情况下也能保持对体育活动的兴趣。我们的最终目标是让学生保持对体育运动的热爱。”

Daniel：

“In the Middle School, the plan is to introduce basic sports like basketball, football, volleyball, American football, and swimming. We believe that students at this level are still in the exploratory stage. It’s our duty to introduce to them all these basic sports and try to develop their interests in them so that by the time they get to high school, they already know what sport they are interested in. Aside from these basic sports mentioned above, we also take them through some invasion games like frisbee, capture the flag, steal the diamonds, flag football, etc. 

Our main goal here is to guide them to develop some effective skills and values like teamwork, tolerance, and hard work. We believe that these are skills that they will not only need in sports but will need throughout their entire lives, so we try to instill these values in them through these games. Just as the development of the body is important in playing sports, we need to develop the mind also. That’s why we offer mindfulness and stretching classes to our Middle school students.

As a continuation of the Middle School program, the high school classes are more specialized. We have the ECA program where each student can select between football, basketball, swimming, and CrossFit. For normal high school PE classes, the aim is to help build their physical qualities be it strength, agility, speed, and skill. The program at this level puts more focus on the details of a particular sport or position in a particular sport. We’ll be focusing on frisbee, basketball, Flag football, volleyball, and track.”

Daniel：

“针对初中部的体育课程，我们引入篮球、足球、排球、美式橄榄球、游泳等基础体育活动。初中学生处于探索阶段，我们的责任是引导学生体验这些基础体育活动，发掘他们的兴趣点。这样一来，学生进入高中后，就能更加明确自己喜欢的运动项目。除了以上几种体育活动，我们还会引入其他体育游戏活动，如飞盘、夺旗、偷钻石、腰旗橄榄球。

我们的主要目标是培养学生实用技能和价值观，如团队合作、坚持以及勤奋。这些技能和价值观不仅是体育活动所需，还将是学生一生所需，因此我们希望通过游戏帮助学生树立这些价值观。体育活动不仅要强体魄，还要健心魂。这也是我们给初中学生开展相关身心健康课程的原因。  

高中阶段的体育课程更为深入。我们有ECA活动，学生可在足球、篮球、游泳以及CrossFit健身中选择。常规高中体育课的目标是提升学生力量、灵敏度、速度以及技能。这个阶段的体育课注重体育的深入学习。我们着重开展飞盘、篮球、腰旗橄榄球、排球和田径活动。”

Daniel：

“Sports in general go to an extent of influencing people that indulge in them. This influence can be good or bad depending on the materials and guides that are used in delivering that particular instruction. 

The PE program is no exception to this rule which is why our able PE teachers put a lot of time and focus into helping students build good values through PE. Values like leadership, partnership, strategy, competition, motivation, and expression in students are first touched through PE. I witnessed this firsthand when I taught the High school students frisbee. Initially, most of them were shy and didn’t even know the English names of their colleagues. But after a couple of practices, they became more expressive. 

I would borrow an old famous quote that says ‘all work and no play, makes Jack a dull boy. All play and no work make Jack a lazy boy. ’ In simple terms, PE and sports activities are as important as non-sports activities. Too much of one maybe affect the students negatively and that’s why our School and PE programs are designed to bring balance and development to our students.”

Daniel：

“一般而言，体育运动在一定程度上会影响学生。这种影响可能是积极的，也可能是消极的，取决于老师的教学方式。

体育课程也不例外，因此我们的体育老师投入大量时间与精力，帮助学生树立正确价值观，如领导能力、团队合作、战略、竞争、动力、自我表现。学生通过体育课逐渐树立这些价值观。一开始，很多学生十分害羞，不知道同学的英文名字，但几堂体育课后，他们更加愿意表达自己。

就像一句谚语所说，‘只工作，不玩耍，聪明的孩子也会变傻。只玩耍，不学习，聪明孩子没出息。’

总而言之，体育课程与体育活动和其他活动一样重要。因此，学校致力于让课程更加平衡，实现学生全面发展。”