NYGH Virtual Challenge - #NYGHoutrunsCOVID

Comments from evaluation panel:

Significant cost savings in terms of doing the Data analysis and visualisation in-house. Outreach was to the whole school.

Name of Team	PE Dept
Title of Project	NYGH Virtual Challenge - #NYGHoutrunsCOVID
Facilitator	Toh Lin Sin
Team Leader	Lance Teo, James Ong & Teo Zhiye
Secretary
Members	PE: Sabrinal Bte Emil, Yeo Pei Li, Lim Ting Fang, Natalie Teng, Neo Shu Mei, Yee Jin Kett ICT: Ong Poh Choo, Steve Teo
Initiated on (date)	3rd Aug
Completion date	30th Aug
Objectives/Targets	Objectives: 1.    To encourage healthy and active living among staff and students 2.    To build a sense of belonging within the class, level, CCA, by trying to reach a target 3.    To achieve a sense of unity by getting the entire school to embark on a common goal 4.    To weave the theme of national identity within the event as the school celebrates along the theme of “Together, A Stronger Singapore”, through building a resilient and healthy nation especially in the presence of COVID-19.
Implementation Process	Please refer to Annex.
Extent of Improvement/ Targets met	Please refer to Annex.

Annex:

 

#NYGHoutrunsCOVID (Virtual Workout Challenge)

 

In-charge: NYGH PE Dept

Date of Challenge: 3rd Aug to 30th Aug 2020

 

Objectives:

1.    To encourage healthy and active living among staff and students

2.    To build a sense of belonging within the class, level, CCA, by trying to reach a target

3.    To achieve a sense of unity by getting the entire school to embark on a common goal

4.    To weave the theme of national identity within the event as the school celebrates along the theme of “Together, A Stronger Singapore”, through building a resilient and healthy nation especially in the presence of COVID-19.

 

Brief description of the challenge:

In order to celebrate along the theme of “Together, A Stronger Singapore” (2020 NDP theme), the PE department aims to create a virtual challenge that will encourage students and staff to put work out into their lifestyle. The message of building a resilient and healthy nation, especially in the presence of COVID-19.

 

At the school level, the target will to surpass the number of covid cases. We have also set a baseline target at 50,000km and divide out by the 4 levels and staff. Every level will be given a target distance to cover, based on the students’ age (eg. upper secondary will get 25% of the total distance, while the lower sec will get 20%). The format of the competition will be:

 

·  Inter-Level (Special mention)

·  Inter-Class (avg distance / student) (Top class per level)

·  Inter-CCA (Top CCA in each category)

·  Top 10 individuals per level

·  All staff and students who can achieve a baseline-target

·  Top 5 Staff 

 

With a dip-stick after school resumes, the PE dept realises many of our students were involved in home-based physical activities. In order to encourage students with diverse interests and motivations, the department will allow indoor workout to be counted as well. However, the workout will be rolled out by the teachers on a weekly basis. 

 

Staff will be involved in the challenge too as they will share a percentage (eg. 10%) of the total target distance to be covered as a school. Involvement of parents will be an advantage for the students to get extra distance if they can show that they have involved their parents during their runs or workouts.

 

Fringe Activities:

In order to motivate the students and staff to complete the distance, some of the activities organised in the month of August to motivate them are as follow:

 

·         Tying in with National Day workout where every student will work towards accumulating as many kilometres/steps as possible through running around the school (lower secondary) or indoor workout (upper secondary).

·         The distance they have accumulated will also be donated to #SGOutrunsCovid, which will aim at donating 50 pairs of shoes to the frontline workers for every 10,000km achieved.

·         Instagramable Moments like best photo taken with family post-workout, drawing NYGH with running GPS app etc.

·         Just Dance sign-up on Friday whitespace (done by student councillors, with collaboration from PE dept)

·         NYGH Amazing Race (done by 2020 PE SIA students)

 

Operational Considerations & Processes:

 

In order to save on getting vendors to work on the data capturing and analytics behind the challenge, the department worked with the EAS staff from ICT (Mr Steve Teo and Miss Ong Poh Choo), under the guidance of Mr Goh Han Pin and Dr Liu Shiueh Ling, to come up with a comprehensive system of data management, that has enough capacity to cater to 1800 staff and students. As it is a first-time project, there were many technical glitches and there were resolved with the close collaboration between the two department staff.

 

#NYoC Results:

The result was 35,304km of distance being covered by the school staff and students in just 4 weeks. The department ran a post-event survey with the students and some encouraging

results were collected.

- 47.6% agree that they are exercising more often with their parents.

- 86% agree that they are more motivated to exercise during #NYoC

- 49.1% agree that they enjoy the class bonding derive from the event