Fit For School: Junior School Kids Have Better Chance Of Good Grades If They Do More Sport

Physically fit primary school pupils can concentrate better, as confirmed by a major study conducted by a team at the TU Munich Department of Sport and Health Sciences together with schools in Bavaria's Berchtesgadener Land district. (LRA BGL/Zenger)

Physically fit primary school pupils feel better, can concentrate better, and are more likely to make it to higher-level secondary schools than children who do less sport.

This has been confirmed for the first time in a study by the Department of Sport and Health Sciences at the Technical University of Munich (TUM).