KOTA KINABALU: About 200,000 students from all over Sabah took part in the 1Student, 1Sport (1M1S) Programme, which was launched simultaneously nationwide yesterday.
GETTING READY: Some of the around 10,000 participants of the programme for Likas Zone warming up.
Sabah Education Department director Datuk Dr Muhiddin Yusin said the programme at state-level involved 213 secondary and 1,072 primary schools.
“We have over 490,000 primary and secondary school students in Sabah. With all the schools involved, I believe over 200,000 of them are involved in the programme,” he said when met at the launching of the state-level event at the Likas Stadium yesterday. Muhiddin said teachers, officers of education department, heads of federal and state departments, parents teachers associations (PIBG) and the public took part in the programme.
The State-level launching was conducted either in the respective schools or schools combined into districts or zones.
“Take the State Education Department level, for example, we combine the 11 schools within the Likas Zone.
“The schools are SM Lok Yuk, SM All Saints, SM Teknik, SMK Likas, SMK perempuan Likas, SM Shan Tao, SK St. Agnes, SJK Lok Yuk, SJK St. James, SJK Chung Hwa, SK Lok Yuk and PIBGs.
“Participation for (Likas Zone) already reached around 10,000 people,” he said.
Meanwhile, Deputy Chief Minister Datuk Dr Yee Moh Chai launched the State-level ‘1Student, 1Sport” Programme, on behalf of Chief Minister Datuk Seri Musa Aman.
“The State government welcomes the initiative of the Education Ministry in introducing the ‘1Student, 1Sport’ Programme.
“The effort is important to produce students who are intellectually, physically, emotionally and spritually balanced.
“It is also in line with the National Sports Policy to promote sports culture among the community while at the same time produce athletes of international standard. Today’s event is an historic one because apart from the launching of the programme, the 1Student, 1Sport, 1Malaysia Run were also flagged off simultenously nationwide.
“It is also a run that involved the most number of participants from around the country and makes it into the Malaysian Guiness Book of Records,” said Musa whose speech was read by Yee.
The Run, which was the main highlight of the launching of the programme, was flagged off at 7:45am sharp all over the country.
Muhiddin added that the programme which was inspired by Deputy Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin will be continued in schools via activities that have been provided.