Physical Education
About Physical Education
Physical education, also known as Phys Ed. , PE and in some Commonwealth countries as physical training or PT, is a class that pupils are required to take at school. It is taken during primary and secondary education and encourages psychomotor learning in a play or movement exploration setting to promote health.
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Drop in how many girls like PE, Youth Sport Trust study suggests
By Marthe de Ferrer and Julia BrysonBBC News
The gap between the proportion of boys and girls in England who enjoy PE lessons is widening, A Survey suggests.
Some 59% of girls in secondary schools who responded to a Youth Sport Trust survey said they liked PE or liked it a lot, compared with 84% of The Boys .
The Girls ' proportion in the same survey in 2016 was 74%, whereas for boys it has remained stable.
The government said it wanted to ensure all children had opportunities to create a lifelong passion for sport.
A Department For Education official said its plans for improving girls' access to sport included encouraging schools to offer a minimum of two hours of Physical Education a week.
is to be delivered over two academic years, which was announced after England women's national football team wrote an open letter to the government, calling for more school-sport opportunities for girls.
'Alarm Bells 'Periods and low confidence were the two most common reasons girls in the survey gave for not wanting to play sport.
The Charity behind the survey, Youth Sport Trust, said it should " raise Alarm Bells " about girls' future activity levels as adults and greater action was needed to engage Young Women in sport.
" There is so much more still to do, " chief executive Ali Oliver said.
" At a time of unprecedented low levels of social and emotional wellbeing, we know getting Things right for girls in PE can be life-changing. "
A-level student Tizzy, 18, who asked for her surname to be withheld, never enjoyed PE. Not naturally sporty, she often felt left out and those who excelled took over.
The curriculum sports such as hockey and netball felt " Old Fashioned and outdated" she says.
" Some People really like sport and Some People Don 't - and you're forced together and kind of expected to get on with it, " Tizzy says.
" I really didn't like it. It was all of it - Getting On the bus, getting changed, getting really sweaty, the competitive people shouting at you for not doing The Right thing.
" The teachers would pick people who were good at sport to do Things - and you were left not really knowing what you were doing. "
Body-confidence issuesOlympic pole-vault bronze-medallist Holly Bradshaw said the survey was disappointing but unsurprising.
" I can really empathise with their worries about being watched and judged by others, " She Said .
" I too have struggled with body-confidence issues, whilst competing for Team GB, in relation to My Body shape. "
And if schools offered a wider range of PE kit options, it could help improve girls' uptake and enjoyment of sport.
Nearly 25,000 children were interviewed for the annual survey, with responses from 18,500 girls and 6,000 boys aged between seven and 18 from schools in England.
The 2016-17 figures also included answers from children in Northern Ireland and Wales.
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