PE and School Sport Strategy for Young People

The overall aim of the PE and Sport Strategy is to enhance the take-up of sporting opportunities by 5 to 16 year olds.

The aim was for 85% of children to have access to two hours per week of high quality PE and school sport by 2008.

Remarkably, this target was achieved a year early, as the 2007 School Sport Survey found that 86% of young people were taking part in a minimum of two hours per week.

Now the ambition is for each child to have access to five hours a week by 2012.

This should be made up of two hours of physical education within the curriculum and three hours offered on school sites or in the community.

The PE and Sport Strategy has key strands, each designed to maximise opportunities for young people to access high quality PE and school sport.

The schools and young people team play a role in the delivery of the Government’s physical education and school sport for young people strategy which is a desire for every pupil to be able to access a minimum of two hours high quality physical education and school sport within and outside the curriculum as part of the five hour offer.

For more information please contact:

Liz Notman, Schools and Young People Officer
Tel: (01482) 392514
E-mail: liz.notman@eastriding.gov.uk