18 Oct, 2015
So much for that Olympic legacy!
Daily Mail | LAURA CLARK, EDUCATION CORRESPONDENT | 14 January 2015
Sport and PE in schools have slumped despite Coalition promise to ‘inspire a generation’
- Pupils spend less time in sport and PE classes now than four years ago
- Government said 2012 games would ‘inspire a generation’ to get active
- Minutes of PE offered to pupils has dropped to below two hours per week
- Students aged five to seven spend just an hour and 42 minutes per week in PE lessons – nearly 25 minutes less than in 2010
- Figures have prompted head teachers to warn of an ‘inactivity crisis’
Pupils aged five to seven spend just an hour and 42 minutes per week in PE lessons – nearly 25 minutes less than in 2010.
The findings, coupled with soaring obesity rates among youngsters, paint a ‘bleak and worrying’ picture, according to Baroness Sue Campbell, chair of the YST.
The figures prompted head teachers to warn of an ‘inactivity crisis’ and call on ministers to make school sport a ‘real priority’.
The Coalition came under intense pressure over its strategy for delivering an Olympic legacy after it scrapped £162million of ring-fenced cash for school sport.
