Unit of Allied Arts/Nexgen Golf Completes PE Workshops in Region 6

Atwo-daysessionhosted bytheMinistryofEducation Unit of Allied Arts for 13 Secondary schools and 22

PETeachers concluded with abangonFridayattheNew Amsterdam Multilateral Secondary, as president of theGuyanaGolfAssociation and Nexgen Golf Academy

Aleem Hussain held a personalized golf training session and donated golf equipment and balls to all schools in attendance. In addition to golf equipment, Teachers were given sports whistles, stop watches and two CSEC PE textbooks to take back to their respective schools.

According to Mr. Kurt Braithwaite, acting head of AlliedArts, “This was to be done this since last October but it was postponed several times Similar workshops were already completed in Regions2byAlliedArtsand R e g i o n s 3 , 4 a n d Georgetown which were hosted by their Education Departments with support from Allied Arts. The reactionofalltheteachersto the simple but effective teaching techniques by Mr Hussain again demonstrated why Golf is fast becoming a favorite sport taught by PE Teachers around the country.”

Mr Braithwaite expressly thanked the Region 6 Department of Education, D E O Ms Dainty, along with the Head Teacher and Staff of N.A.M.S for their gracious hospitality in hosting the two-daysession.

Mr Bristol (NAMS) and Mr Moakan (BHS) both expressed their surprise at the speed of learning the sport and at the enthusiasm of all the teachers and studentswhotookpartinthe mini competition that concludedthegolftraining.

Speakingtotheteachers, Hussain said, “This is an individual sport that attracts 65% female students and regardlessofsize,strengthor athletic ability, allows everyone to compete on equal footing due to adjustments based on a handicapsystem.

With the emphasis on physical education and sports in schools by President Ali and Minister Manikchand,webelievethat thejointeffortwithUAAand

NexgenGolfwillseeseveral thousands of new students taking up Golf, especially with our modified training system that allows for teaching and practice in smallspaces,evenindoors.”

Amajorshiftinfocusby the Ministry of Education will see all learners exposed to a sport, foreign language andamusicalinstrumentasa part of developing well rounded graduates of high school. As a result, this PE Workshop series was timely as it prepared dozens of teachers nationwide to immediately implement the newmandatebyMOE.