Encouraging physical activity throughout the school day

This journal article is about how school can affect children and young people’s physical activity in a positive way. In the introduction, there is information about general grades of physical activity in children and young people which is D- , and grade of Australian school that B+, because of their positive role in development and supporting physical activity.

The Active Healthy Kids Australia 2018 Report Card did a research about 12 different effective indicators on children’s physical activity such as general school environment and current level of physical activity engagement in schools. Dr Natasha Schranz explains importance of school higher grade in this research. Then article talks about other indicator which is current school physical activity participation earned grade B. The report has shown that infrastructure, policies, programs and practices and PE teachers can be affective. To conclude, the report suggested some proposal for development of each indicator such as ‘learning to move and moving to learn’ and supporting schools by society and governments.

https://www.teachermagazine.com.au/articles/encouraging-physical-activity-throughout-the-school-day