Unit 24: Physical Education and the care of children and Young
Importance of PE in Society
Importance of physical activities to children and young people’s educational attainment?
Impact of general health and physical fitness:
It is very important to do physical activity as it has great benefits that it can bring to young
children and young people’s lives and most importantly have a good impact on their
education.
Physical fitness:
Getting fitter throughout doing physical activity, for example, you will see physical
improvements such as you will able to recruit more muscles around your body also you are
able to improve the cardiovascular for example run faster and longer. Which will enable you
with daily tasks like lifting stuff or doing daily jobs. As they will become much easier to do.
Better bone strength this means that you will have stronger bones which means that they
won’t be as fragile and they will become hard which will help in preventing injuries because
it will be much harder to break.
Once they improve their physical fitness they are going to have more energy and this can
help also with their education, as they will be full of energy which means that they can use it
towards education and apply it to get the best amount of work done when in school or
primary schools, which this will increase their productivity on daily bases.
Learn:
Doing different types of physical activity will help on developing new types of motor skill
which will enable you to develop new muscular pathways, and improve cognitive skills in
physical activity that can improve and help when studying. As you will have new motor skills
that you can apply when you are in education, for example, writing. Also help with problem-
solving, decision making, focus & concentration and being Creativities. Which can be applied
in too many different subjects.
Inclusion within PE/ Social cohesion:
Thanks to PE it allows increasing social inclusion by bringing people together from different
social and economic backgrounds and provide the same goals. Which then create Social
Cohesion that forces and influences members in whether to remain part of a group feast by
doing different types of sports, as they want to remain together within that group as they
are going to use different types of skills Teamwork also get a better understanding on how
to meet new people. Which later can be applied to the outside world or doing different
sports as it will give the same type of principles just in a different environment.
Importance of high quality of teaching: