Who Bought the PM a Copy of “Fifty Not Out?
At last the Government seems to have woken up to the fact that, as Lord Coe recently said “far too many young people are leaving primary schools barely able to climb a flight of stairs”. With the recent announcement of a £150m per annum investment in primary school sport for the next two years at least there is some hope that the appalling state of our kids can start to be reversed. However, it wont happen overnight and will take at least a decade to see any tangible results; for some sports and their local clubs this will be too late.
The scheme will involve lump sums for schools – a typical primary school with 250 pupils would receive £9,250 per year, the equivalent of around two days a week of a primary teacher or a coach’s time – plus a greater role for sporting and voluntary organisations, including individual sporting National Governing Bodies (NGBs), who will increase the specialist coaching and skills development on offer for primary schools. More primary teachers with a particular specialism in PE via a new teacher training scheme, will be needed in significant numbers which, if it allows young people to get off the dole, has to be a win-win.
Although the money seems significant, bear in mind it represents a fraction of the £9bn we spent hosting the Olympics. Still, you have to start somewhere and I am so glad that Dave must have found a copy of “Fifty Not Out” because he clearly read it here first…so read on.
Copies are available via donations to BVCC Juniors.
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