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How good is our National Curriculum for PE? Where will it go from here?

The National Curriculum for Physical (NCPE) has seen numerous changes since its initial introduction in 1992 following the 1988 Education Reform Act, which was notably the most important piece of legislation since the 1944 Butler Act (Lawton, 1989., Gillard, 2011. & Clay,  1999).  With government parties and professionals alike continuously striving to produce the ideal document that will assist physical education (PE) teachers to produce the highest level of teaching and learning possible within PE (Gillard, 2011. & Hill, 1997).  Offering such a variety of content compared to other subjects, PE is on one hand a key part of the curriculum, although this is not shown in the continuous reduction of allocated time within the curriculum and a view of PE teachers being inferior (Hardman & Green, 2011). 

"Every Winner Was Once A Beginner"

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Examining the impact of socio-economic change upon educational structures and subject delivery in an attempt to plan for the future is not a new concept (Fisher, 2011). With the recent change in Key Stage 4 (KS4) from a fully inclusive, child centred curriculum seen in 2007, to a shortened, competitive and demanding curriculum introduced in 2014. There hasn't been a more suitable time to revise the situation and discover why there was such a brutal change of tactics? Who was responsible for them? And indeed was it the right move for PE?

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