1. Promote intellectual development

School physical education can promote students' intellectual development through various sports activities. Physical exercise can promote the development of students' nervous system and lay a biological foundation for the development of intelligence.

When the human body is engaged in sports, many senses, such as vision, hearing, balance, proprioception, etc., should participate in the work, and all kinds of sensory information are continuously transmitted to all centers of the cerebral cortex, thus activating and stimulating brain cells, improving the oxygen supply to the brain, and promoting the secretion of substances in brain thinking activities, making people clear-headed and quick-thinking.

School physical education itself is a creative activity, which contains rich contents of developing intelligence and creativity, and plays an important role in comprehensively cultivating observation ability, extensively training memory ability, inspiring and inducing imagination, and improving thinking ability. In addition, some studies show that exercise helps to develop the function of the right hemisphere of the brain and plays an important role in developing children's visual thinking and creativity such as intuition, spatial transformation and body perception.

2. Form a good moral character

School physical education is an important content and means of moral education, which plays an important role in the process of students' individual socialization and personality improvement. The moral education function of school physical education is as follows:

First, school physical education can cultivate students' moral knowledge and beliefs, such as fairness, law, rules, discipline, respect, cooperation, democracy and competition.

Secondly, school physical education can effectively create a special moral education environment-"micro-society". Through sports activities, students' moral beliefs are strengthened and internalized into students' specific moral behaviors; Thirdly, school physical education can effectively cultivate students' individual will qualities, such as courage, tenacity, tolerance to setbacks, tolerance to difficulties and so on.

Finally, school physical education can also cultivate students' collectivism and patriotism, as well as a sense of responsibility and honor. These are not only the important contents of school moral education, but also the necessary qualities of modern people.

3. Cultivate aesthetic taste

School physical education is also an important and special way of school aesthetic education, and the process of sports is always accompanied by beauty. School physical education can not only shape physical beauty, but also bring spiritual beauty, behavioral beauty and sports beauty, which are perfectly combined in physical practice.

Physical exercise plays a very direct role in shaping bodybuilding. Through physical exercise, students can be healthy, well-proportioned, elegant and full of vitality, which is not only a sign of health, but also a manifestation of human beauty. The beauty of form, action, rhythm, dress and behavior in sports will give students a strong aesthetic experience.

Make it enjoy beauty, cultivate and sublimate emotions. The role of school physical education in cultivating students' appreciation, expression and creation of beauty is unique, concrete and practical, which is incomparable to general subjects.