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YST responds to Ofsted review of obesity, healthy eating and physical activity in primary schools.

Following Disability Awareness Day (15 July), Development Manager for the Youth Sport Trust’s Inclusive Sport Programmes Vicci Wells, discusses inclusivity and ensuring accessible, inspiring and meaningful opportunities for all.

Keeping children and young people active is high on the agenda at Hawkedon Primary School. The school has seen the benefits that participating in sport and PE brings and this is why it supported children’s charity the Youth Sport Trust.

As a teacher in Sheffield, I think cycling is really important to learn not only for the physical benefits like reducing obesity and for stress levels, but to boost children’s emotional and mental health.

Children say PE is teaching them about far more than just sporting skills, with a survey of more than 6,500 pupils saying they believe what they learn in PE will improve their employment prospects.

Children’s charity the Youth Sport Trust (YST) is celebrating the success of its National School Sport Week as it saw over 5,000 schools across the country register to take part.

As England prepare to face Belgium in the FIFA World Cup today, the FA and Youth Sport Trust are celebrating engaging hundreds of female football activators through the Game of Our Own partnership during National School Sport Week.

MPs, policymakers, head teachers, sporting stars and young people joined national children's charity the Youth Sport Trust in the Houses of Parliament to celebrate the power of sport to change lives.

Hundreds of thousands of young people will take part in physical activities in schools, nurseries and at home this week as part of the Youth Sport Trust’s (YST) National School Sport Week.

Support for schools and teachers will be vital if government's latest childhood obesity strategy is to achieve its aim, says YST Chief Executive Ali Oliver.

National children’s charity the Youth Sport Trust has cemented its partnership with Maths of the Day by collaborating to offer primary schools in the country access to free active maths workshops.

Ross McNeil is from King Edward VII Academy. He blogs about how pupils are travelling to the World Cup – symbolically – to get active and raise money for the YST on National School Sport Week.