Excerpt from Syllabus of Physical Training for Schools, 1919
1. In their "Suggestions for the Consideration of Teachers," published in 1905, the Board of Education emphasised the value of Physical Training as an integral part of education. Subsequent experience has demonstrated the necessity of such intimate association, and in issuing a new and revised edition of the Syllabus of Physical Training, the Board have had in view not only the improvement of the system of physical education in the schools, but also its value in relation to the health of the people as a whole.
2. The past ten or twelve years have been marked by the progressive recognition of the vital interest of the State in securing the physical well-being of children and young persons. The Education (Provision of Meals) Acts of 1906 and 1914 were intended to secure that no child should be prevented by want of food from profiting by the education given in Public Elementary Schools. The Education (Administrative Provisions) Act, 1907, empowered Local Education Authorities to provide vacation schools, vacation classes, play centres, or other means of recreation for children attending Public Elementary Schools, it imposed upon the Authorities the duty of undertaking the medical inspection of children, and empowered them also to make such arrangements as might be sanctioned by the Board for attending to the children's health and physical condition. The Education Act of 1918 not only extended the powers and duties in regard to medical inspection and treatment, but gave new powers to Local Education Authorities to supplement and reinforce the instruction and social and physical training provided by the system of education by means of (a) holiday or school camps, especially for young persons attending Continuation Schools; (b)centres and equipment for physical training, playing fields, school swimming baths; and (c)other facilities for social and physical training in the day or evening.
3. Thus the place, scope and conception of physical education have broadened and it has gradually assumed a meaning entirely different from that implied by the old term "school drill." It is now recognised that an efficient system of education should encourage the concurrent development of a healthy physique, keen intelligence and sound character. These qualities are in a high degree mutually interdependent, and it is beyond argument that without healthy conditions of body the development of the mental and moral faculties is seriously retarded and in some cases prevented. In a word, healthy physical growth is essential to intellectual growth.
4. But proper nourishment, effective medical inspection and treatment, and hygienic surroundings, however excellent, will not of themselves build up a sound physique.
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