Is the govt. doing enough to support school sports and promote the Olympic legacy When reading this query something automatically sticks out like a sore thumb – the phrase “doing enough”. As a trained teacher of physical education and someone who’s exceptionally captivated with school sport, I miss out on the govt doing anything to support and develop school sports and the Olympic legacy.
2012 was undoubtedly an exceptionally successful year for sport inside the Uk, full of many highlights. The triumph of the London Olympics is something I, at the side of many other British citizens, are very pleased with. Astonishingly i’ve got read recently that the govt. are cutting the funding given to certain sports that did not achieve medals in the course of the Olympics; here is outrageous. How the heck is a sport presupposed to develop its facilities, increase the number and quality of coaches and promote opportunities when its funding is being taken away
For years the govt. was focused on ensuring children participate in healthy and active lifestyles and ensuring that levels of obesity are minimised, that is great and something I passionately believe in too. However, the govt. seems to believe it’ll all be possible while cutting funding for varsity sports over again. This can have a huge impact on school sports and the Olympic legacy as progressively more children will drop out of participating in curricular and additional-curricular sport and exercise. i myself believe funding ought to be made available to put physical education specialists within primary schools in a whole-time, permanent position, instead of the occasional coach who will take maybe two hours of additional-curricular ‘club’ a week.
Lord Sebastian Coe has provided numerous youths and adults with inspiration that sport and exercise grants motivation and enable success. Cutting funding and overlooking sport and physical education within education is an awful mistake. i myself believe Michael Gove has no clear sight or objectives concerning PE and college sport and that is having a negative impact at the children currently within the education system. i want to determine some clear objectives and statements from the govt. on what it’s exactly they’re doing. It is going to certainly make interesting reading.
Nathan Walker is a PE teacher currently working for Randstad Education, a teaching supply agency. He has taught PE in numerous schools in Devon, in addition to working at International Summer Schools in Oxford and Hertfordshire.
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