“Fun to Move Everywhere” Interschool Challenge consists of two categories: "Individual Challenge" and "School Team Challenge", where the participants are required to perform the exercises in a sequence with gradually increasing level of difficulty. “Fun to Move Everywhere” has 28 skills in total, the number of skills to complete varies by the grade level of students.

The first Interschool Challenge held in June/July 2022 received particularly enthusiastic response from the schools with over 5000 students entered the competition ("Individual Challenge": 90 students; "Team Challenge": 200 school teams). The winners of the competition were announced at the interschool event on 23 Aug 2022. Congratulations to the following schools! All the teaching staffs and students of Project schools are welcome to join the 2nd Interschool Challenge.

The Principal Meeting cum Fun to Move@JC Model School Awards Ceremony was held on 23 August 2022, over 330 representatives attended the event. Professor Amy HA, the Project Director, provided a detailed progress report to attendees and encouraged schools to strive to achieve the key goals for the coming school year, i.e. to increase the numbers of activity classes and Sport Band users, thereby achieving higher scores on 'Fun to Move Index'. Four school principals were also invited to share their school-based experience in implementing the Fun to Move@JC Project.

In addition, the first ever Award Ceremony was held in appreciation of the joint efforts and participation of the 35 project schools in the past five years. The following awards were presented - Commendation Trophy; Fun to Move@JC Model School Gold, Silver, and Bronze Awards; as well as the “Fun to Move Everywhere” Interschool Challenge Gold Award and the Highest Participation Award. The winners of 2021/22 Model School Gold Award are PLK Lam Man Chan English Primary School and SKH Holy Cross Primary School.

In an activity session followed by the ceremony, our Project coach led stretching and coordination exercises that could help the teaching staff get invigorated for the new school year. It is hoped that the schools would continue to support the Project and promote healthy and active lifestyle to their members.

Another Professional Teacher Development Day was successfully held on 8 July 2022 at the Hong Kong Southern District Government Primary School. This face-to-face event came at the perfect time to allow all teaching staff to take a refreshing break before the school examination period started in the following week.

Over 40 participants including the principal, vice-principal, and teachers joined the fun day. The event kicked off with a brief introduction to physical literacy, followed by a taster session of the “Fun to Move Everywhere” - a big board game designed to enhance fundamental movement skills (FMS) and health-related fitness in a creative way. All participants were getting worked up over the game. Concurrently, fitness fun stations were set up including curl-up, shoulder stretch, handgrip tests; FMS assessment using the Project’s automated FMS rater; and Bioelectrical Impedance Analysis (BIA). The group testing run smoothly and efficiently with social interaction and encouragement – all activities were designed for even non-PE teachers can master. The team wrapped up the 3-hour fun day with a team building game using Dodgebee.

The purpose of “Professional Teacher Development Fun Day” was to promote teachers’ physical, mental, and social well-being. All teaching staff in the Project schools are welcome to join us.

Fun to Move@JC “10-Million Steps Challenge” was successfully held on 27th May 2022, the first in-person interschool event after class resumption in April. A total of 26 schools participated in the event either synchronously or asynchronously where students joined the 15-minute virtual exercise journey wearing the Project sport bands. Students and staffs can join the virtual tour by simply wearing the Project sport bands.

On the event day, a total of 6 schools joined together with us at their classrooms. The virtual event was also streamed live on YouTube at the same time. The other 20 schools would arrange another time later for the virtual tour. As of 7th June 2022, 9600 teaching staff and students from 16 schools had made a collective effort to accumulate approximately 1.9M steps! All the participants enjoyed performing a series of fun and simple exercises during the 15-min virtual tour while recording step counts using the Project Sport Bands.

Link to event video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26mwHDIHeQg

With Hong Kong facing the outbreak of the fifth wave of the epidemic, the original summer vocation of schools was brought forward to March / April in the current school year. To help students stay motivated and keep up with the learning momentum, The Fun to Move@JC project collaborated with the 'CoolThink@JC' Project to launch the 'CoolFun Times' programme (「動腦動身Zoom一鬆」) from 7 March to 22 April 2022.

This 7-week programme was designed and led by professional educators and coaches of the two HKJC Trust-initiated projects. The workshops combined computation thinking (30mins) and physical activities (30mins), allowing students to develop digital creativity and maintain good health at home by doing exercises in this unprecedented break. Adaptations were made for activity classes targeted at students of different grades. For example, basic practices of FMS and body coordination were introduced to Primary 1-3 students while classes for Primary 4-6 students focused more on object control skills with the use of common household items. The crossover collaboration was successful, receiving an overwhelming response with 17,344 registrants from over 300 primary schools in Hong Kong.