§ Mr. HoyleTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills (1) if she will make a statement on the amount of time dedicated to sport in schools each week; [2142]
(2) what plans she has to increase the amount of time given to sport in schools. [2143]
§ Mr. TimmsThe National Curriculum for Physical Education has an aspiration that all pupils should receive two hours of physical activity a week. Officials are considering with the Department for Culture, Media and Sport how we could assist schools in delivering a two-hour entitlement to all children, as set out by the Prime Minister on 11 January this year. This commitment was included in our Green Paper, "Building on Success". We are also consulting with Ofsted, the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority, PE associations and teachers. The QCA have published examples of best practice on their
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School LEA Urdu Bengali Gujarati Hindi Chinese 1 Arden school Solihull — — — — Yes 2 Ashcombe school Surrey — — — — Yes 3 Bishop Heber county high school Cheshire — — — — Yes 4 Bournemouth school Bournemouth — — — — Yes 5 Bullers Wood school London borough of Bromley — — — — Yes 6 Chatham grammar school for boys Medway — — — — Yes 7 Clevedon community school North Somerset — — — — Yes 8 Cranford community high school London borough of Hounslow Yes — Yes Yes Yes 9 Dallam school Cumbria — — — — — 10 Dartford grammar school Kent — Yes Yes — — 11 Elizabeth Garrett Anderson school London borough of Islington — Yes — — — 12 Gosforth high school Newcastle upon Tyne Yes — — — — 13 Haydon school Hillingdon — — Yes — Yes 14 Hele's school City of Plymouth — — — — Yes 15 Hockerill Anglo-European school Hertfordshire — — — — Yes 16 Hummersknott school Darlington Yes — — — — 17 Ian Ramsey CE school Stockton on Tees Yes — — — — 18 Judgemeadow community college City of Leicester — — Yes — — 19 Katharine Lady Berkeleys school Gloucester — — — — Yes 20 King Edward VII school Sheffield Yes — — — — 21 Kingsthorpe community school Northamptonshire Yes Yes Yes — Yes 22 Levenshulme high school Manchester Yes Yes — — Yes 23 Little Lever school Bolton Yes — — — Yes 24 Lord Grey school Milton Keynes Yes — — — Yes 25 Lymm high school Warrington — — — — Yes 26 Millais school West Sussex — — — — Yes 27 Monkseaton community high school North Tyneside — Yes — — Yes website, from schools that are already providing two hours or more PE and school sport. School sports co-ordinators, of which there will be 1,000 by 2004, are already working with families of schools linked to specialist sports colleges to help schools meet this entitlement.