Guidance

PE and sports in schools

Information to help schools increase access to PE, physical activity and extra-curricular school sport, including examples of good practice.

• From: Department for Education
• Published: 23 March 2024

Applies to England

Documents

Enhancing physical education provision and improving access to sport and physical activity in school

PDF, 375 KB, 42 pages

Details

This document explains how schools can meet the:

• ambitions of the physical education (PE) national curriculum
• aims of the school sport and activity action plan
• Chief Medical Officers’ physical activity guidelines

It includes a variety of schools’ approaches to providing:

• a minimum 2 hours of PE per week
• equality of access to PE and extra-curricular school sport and competition

Published 23 March 2024