PE can boost children’s health and education – let’s make it central to the curriculum

Children could be empowered to choose activities that enable them to learn the knowledge and skills to make healthy life ...
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Physical education is important for academic success—here's how it benefits kids' cognition

There were 45,000 fewer hours of physical education (PE) delivered in UK schools during the last academic year compared to 15 years ago. This is concerning, given how important PE and physical ...
EurekAlert!

School PE lessons don't reflect kids' activity levels

The total amount of physical activity done by primary school children does not depend on how much physical education is timetabled at school because children compensate out of school, finds a study in ...
TechCrunch

Hiveclass, a platform for virtual PE classes for kids, raises $1.5M

When the COVID-19 pandemic struck in 2020 and schools transitioned to online learning, both Joe Titus and Paul Suhr were concerned about how to maintain their children’s activity levels in the absence ...
BBC

'PE teachers need more education on disabilities and sport'

A top British wheelchair tennis player has started a campaign to make physical education (PE) more inclusive for children and young people with disabilities. Ruby Bishop, 21, from Norwich, said she ...
The Conversation

Joe Wicks got children moving – how to keep them active as lockdown ends

Loughborough University provides funding as a member of The Conversation UK. When parents in the UK were suddenly forced to become teachers to their kids in lockdown, physical education (PE) was ...
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Judy Murray calls for mandatory PE lessons to combat culture of 'sitting in front of a screen'

Judy Murray has called for PE to be a priority in all schools with children getting at least 40 minutes of exercise each day. The tennis coach made the plea as she announced an expansion of a scheme ...