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

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The benefits of physical activity for children are enormous. As researchers of physical education (PE) – and ex-PE teachers – we know evidence shows it can have a positive impact on mental and physical health, social relationships, emotional control and confidence, as well as on academic performance. Why not make movement the framework that the rest of the school day is built upon?

But funding PE in England’s schools remains a low priority, it seems, after a report emerged that two government departments ...