Doing sport makes you smarter yet over half of school children do not achieve the 60 minutes of physical activity every day recommended by the Chief Medical Officer, says a leading sporting charity.
A study by the Youth Sport Trust (YST) has revealed that physically active children achieve higher levels of academic attainment than their less physically active peers.
The sports charity has called for an end to outdated PE lessons and to create a well-being-led sports curriculum that will boost the number of children who do sport, which in turn helps them concentrate in lessons and will help them achieve better academically.
