You Remove Physical Education from Curriculum your in Danger of Removing One Most Powerful Influences on Children's Lives"

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You Remove Physical Education from Curriculum your in Danger of Removing One Most Powerful Influences on Children’s Lives”

As children go through their school lives physical education becomes essential in the way that they will go on to live in the future. As it gives the children the chance to take part in sports and learn about the importance of physical activity and nutrition. Through high quality physical education we can influence the way that children live their lives. Physical education is essential in providing the basis of good health and nutrition in sport. PE’s place in the school curriculum is that it contributes to children’s health and fitness (Zeigler, 1994). When children are being taught high quality physical education it is not only the benefits of activity but also how they are taught why it is beneficial to them and reasons to continue trying to live there lives in a healthy fashion. Through physical education the children are also taught about nutrition and how important it is in their lives. When children are taking part in P.E they are more likely to listen as it is considered to be one of the more fun subjects in the curriculum, this makes it essential to keep it as if kids loose one of the more fun subjects in the curriculum then it will lead to a drop in the attendance of kids as they don’t have any fun classes left to attend.

 

A good quality level of physical education also means that it might inspire the children to take up sport outside of school and continue on in taking part in physical education after they have left the school. If we try and remove physical education from the curriculum it will affect the numbers of children who take part in sport on a recreational basis. The first opportunity that most people get of sport is through P.E and so without this in the curriculum it would mean that it would reduce the amount of children who take up sport at clubs. When children take part in high quality physical education it will help to build an interest in them so that they will take part in sport outside of school hours and after they have left school. You also have to look at the fact that if you leave P.E out of the curriculum you can reduce important skills that can only be taught through physical education. When children are in P.E and playing sports it helps to introduce them to teamwork and communication, which they get through playing sport and interacting amongst themselves. Children do not get many opportunities to apply team work or to communicate in other classes in the curriculum and certainly it would only hinder the children progress if we remove Physical Education it means that there is no chance for them to learn this skills that they will need when they leave school and move into a working environment it will be essential that they have these skills if they want to be successful.

If we remove physical education there will be long-term ramifications that will have to be dealt with for a long time afterward. Such problems that would come about are the lack of numbers taking part in clubs sports. It will also result in a lack of world class sports performers. There is a big link between schools and clubs as when you become interested in sport the school teachers will try send you to local clubs and without the schools introducing kids to the different sports available it will only go about affecting the clubs and development of less popular sports such as hockey, badminton and other less played sports. With removing P.E from the curriculum you are going to stop the flow of players going from schools to clubs. For some clubs this is what they strive off and without it they will struggle to keep going without the constant influx of new players coming from schools. We start to have less players in clubs it will result it will affect clubs at levels even the very highest of levels sport will be affected as at the top levels there will not be the large pools of players for them to pick from.  

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You remove P.E and you will also risk the increasing problem of child obesity, as P.E is sometimes the only place that children can take part in any sort of physical activity. When you look at the rate at which obesity is rising in the United Kingdom, if we remove physical education we will remove in some cases the only bit of physical activity that children do throughout the week. If we remove P.E from the curriculum you are looking at a making obesity rise at an even faster rate than at present. This will have a huge effect ...

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