Educational Sports management in Zimbabwean Primary and Secondary Schools!

There is a relationship between physical education(PE) and sports for the development of a school child both physically ,mentally and socially.
Physical Education is conducted ,facilited and supervised by teachers .Physical Education is a process and it should be gradual develop the whole person.It is child-centred and development of self .Usually Physical Education is a compulsory subject and inclusive of all special needs children together with other members of the community. It is the foundation of developing a child physically in a strategically ,systematic well organised logical manner.
Whilst sports regarded for competition and recreation.Sports are organised and professionally conducted by coaches ,sports specialists and particular extraordinary teachers.
Sport is a product which can be offered in markets and advertising while promoting other products.Sports centred on special talents to be developed and displayed for sale.
Usually sporting is voluntary and exclusive to the talented and interested sports persons who has glamour for sporting activities and is aiming for excellence so that it can be marketable.
Why People getting involved in Sports? Since sporting is also one of major recreation activities people get involved to have friends , get fun and excitement.It is the most fun way of doing something after get involved in tedious office work and look somewhere to enjoy yourself with others.
Sporting has organisational skills which can be mastered and manipulated by sports person to make it more exciting and people interested in learning these new skills ,recover from injury whilst releasing stress and pressure.
The need for every to be fit ,maintains good healthy body and lose weight ,sporting is the most cheapest and realiable way to maintain upright posture,discipline, sense of wellbeing or belong to a certain group of organised people through doing regular skills and activities.
Above all sporting is now the major source of investment opportunities as it attracts a lot of people and income.Take for example Portugal developed huge infrastractures to host the 2006 Euro cup and South Africa is not an exception as it bounds to be the major developed country in Africa after won the hosting of 2010 world cup and done it successfully.
Why is sport so Important? It plays a vital role in everyday life ,sports promote civic and national pride.The major persuit of health and enjoyable leaisure .It has a significant impact on the economy and assist in the community and society.As a result it extend the country 's influence internationally and prestige whilst promoting trade and stability.
Structure of Youth sporting Games , all schools in Zimbabwe are mandated by the policy of Ministry of Education Sports ,Arts and Culture to ensure that every child gets the opportunity to learn Physical Education ,above all schools are supervised by Better School Programme of Zimbabwe (BSPZ)to get a child's right to participate in interschool sports competitions.The National Association of Primary Heads(NAPH)conduct sports for primary schools and on secondary schools contacted by National Association for Secondary School Heads(NASH).
Competitions start at school level where children are grouped in houses or school clubs and then compete in interhouses competitions within the schools.
After the schools interhouse/club competitions ,teachers together with interested local persons select the best talented children who will going to participate with others from the local schools in the cluster competitions.
From the cluster the most excelling sports person children compete in districts competitions ,then province ,national and very few got the opportunity to compete internationally.
Sports Management and Co-ordination in all these competitions are co-ordinated from cluster competitions up to international level by co-ordinators who work with teachers in managing sports generally on updating files for all competitions.
However there is much need for improvement in developing schools sports for the 13,15 and 17 years age groups to make the development programme much effective.These include:
•writing information ,working with media houses in every cluster ,district and province.Keeping game note and magazines or having website to post their activities.
•Seeking sponsorship from cluster level and fundraising commitee that will effectively work with sponsors ,media, public and promoting sports whilst giving incentives.
•Make a government policy to ensure that those children who excel in sports and marketable to sports clubs, reginal and international clubs have a share to develop their areas of origin to develop their areas.