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Students' physical and socio-emotional growth affected during Covid-19 years
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Pupils in Bedok Green Primary School taking part in a before-school group exercise last month.
ST PHOTO: FELINE LIM
SINGAPORE - While solutions could be found for the challenges linked to academic learning during the Covid-19 pandemic, other aspects of children's development including fitness took a hit.
In an interview with The Straits Times, Madam Liew Wei Li, director-general of education at the Ministry of Education (MOE), said physical development was affected, particularly with disruptions to physical education classes, camps and co-curricular activities in the past two years.
