“Role Of Physical Education Programme For School Children”

Abstract

The importance of physical education and its healthy impact on human life, the governing boards of school education had made, physical education and sports as an integral part of the curriculum in schools. For all round development of children “Health is Wealth” was important for every individual, who strived to succeed in life. Each individual is blessed with a body, which involved not just physical but psychological, intellectual and emotional functions and processes. All those functions put together determined the character of an individual. A healthy body stimulate the effectiveness of physical functions and encourage and self-confidence. Research has established that students who took part in regular physical activities were more attentive in the class, abled to concentrate for longer period of time and had increased self-esteem. All those factors leads to an improved academic performance. Students who participated in daily outdoor exercise had better academic gains, fewer disciplinary problems and increased attention in class room as compared to their peers. Increased neuroscience research demonstrate positively altered brain actively and improved attention and mood