Question reference: S6W-24594
- Asked by: Dr. Sandesh Gulhane, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: 18 January 2024 Registered interest
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Current status: Answered by Jenny Gilruth on 29 January 2024
Question
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-23791 by Maree Todd on 8 January 2024, on what evidence it has based its commitment to ensure that all children in primary schools receive at least two hours of physical education each school week.
Answer
Being physically active is one of the best things we can do for our physical and mental wellbeing. Physical education (PE) and physical activity have a positive impact on pupils' health, educational attainment, and life chances.
That is why we have committed to ensuring that all children in primary school receive at least two hours of PE each school week, and that all young people in secondaries 1 to 4 receive at least two 50-minute periods of PE each school week, ever since first making this commitment at the 2011 Scottish Parliament election.
To monitor progress on this commitment, local authorities have provided us with data about provision of PE in their schools since 2012. This data is reported through the Schools Healthy Living Survey Statistics Report, which is available through the following web link: Data and Methodology - School Healthy Living Survey: school meal uptake and PE provision statistics 2023 - gov.scot (www.gov.scot) .
Information about schools meeting PE targets is contained on Table 18 of the supplementary statistics spreadsheet in the Schools Healthy Living Survey.