One of Britain's best-known Paralympic athletes has told MPs many disabled children are being "sent to the library" rather than going to PE lessons. Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson, the wheelchair racing ...

The total amount of physical activity done by primary school children does not depend on how much physical education is timetabled at school because children compensate out of school, finds a study in ...

There were 45,000 fewer hours of physical education (PE) delivered in UK schools during the last academic year compared to 15 years ago. This is concerning, given how important PE and physical ...

The Body Coach Joe Wicks has started live PE lessons for children who are at home because of school closures. The 33-year-old fitness coach says he is “going to be the nation’s PE teacher” while ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Adding more physical education classes in grades one to nine could help lower the prevalence of obesity among ...

Eligibility criteria for selecting studies Experimental studies that assessed the effect of quantity-based (ie, increasing the amount of curriculum time allocated to PE) or quality-based (ie, ...

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There’s no name more frequently uttered by families across the nation at the moment than ‘Joe Wicks’. Every morning begins at 9am sharp with PE via his YouTube channel – and with numbers creeping up ...

4 Research Institute for Sport and Exercise Science, Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool, UK School age boys and girls spend an average of 7–8 h a day being sedentary (ie, sitting).14 Much of ...