PE, how often?

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How often should KS2 be doing PE?

Is there a minimum amount of time or is it up to each school to decide?

DC's school are now only doing it for 1 lesson every 4 weeks. It seems very little to me.

State school. Double lesson weekly. (1.5 hours)

That doesn't seem much. We used to do 2x double P.E a week, so 4 hours.

DD (Y5) has twice a week PE but I don't know how long.

The school also offers a variety of before, lunch and after school sport clubs with little or no costs, they believe in keeping the kids active.

IME, most primaries aim for 2 hours per week - an hour indoors and an hour outdoors.

And YY to sports clubs - everything from lunchtime walking and dance clubs to competitive netball and tag rugby.

So pretty shit then?

Luckily both DC are active with football, gymnastics and dancing plus we walk a lot. I do worry for the children who aren't though.

Ds2 does PE twice a week - primary
Ds1 does PE twice a week ATM but in year 6 and 8 it was 3 times - secondary

My DD is in Y4 at a state primary. They do PE once a week and swimming once a week (taken by coach to local pool). Not sure how long PE or swimming is though.

Same as Mother here, however DD has mentioned they don't do PE every week. They do go swimming every week, 30 minutes a week.

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2x a week at DD's primary generally though the class has missed several sessions recently cos it's yr 6 and they are revising for SATs.

Just wondering how they can get away with once a month then?

Twice a week here (one inside and one outside as mentioned earlier). I think it's about an hour each lesson.

In primary my two did PE twice a week, one lesson of indoor PE or athletics/individual sports & one lesson of team games. They also had a weekly swimming lesson.

Ours only does once a week which I think is odd.

There's optional running before school and afterschool sports clubs though for the juniors.

P.E once a week usually, I think, swimming once a fortnight, recently started doing the daily mile.

Halcyon do they do the daily Mile in school or before school? Ours have just started before school and it's really messing up school runs with the other kids!

They do it in school sometime during the day.

OP it may be a normal length of time if they're doing swimming this term instead? Ours have terms where they only do team games and swimming, no PE as such.

Ours did swimming last term instead of pe. This term back to the weekly 1hr lesson.

I wish ours did the running as part of the school day but I'm taking in 20mins early if they want to run which is ending up quite a long day.

There's lots of optional sport clubs but it's almost as if daytimes are becoming sats factories and sport is before /after school activity.

Twice a week, once indoors, once outdoors. but they get bumped quite often due to weather, other classes needing the hall for something, rehearsals for the Christmas play. A few clubs but apart from one run by an external organisation they only run for half a term at a time sporadically and with limited spaces. Minimal participation in competition witb other schools. It's one of the few things I haven't been happy with about the school.

No, they're not doing swimming.

Just seems they're trying to pull up academic standards or SATS results, by dropping everything they don't get judged on.

The Daily Mile shouldn't replace P.E. time.

P.E. should be about developing skills etc- just running for a mile doesn't fulfil the 'education' part.