Bringing the Department for Education guidance to life through movement.

Our TOP PE, TOP Play and TOP Start are part of the original TOP Sport programme developed in 1996. Reviewed and updated to reflect the modernised needs of practitioners and young people, the TOPs collection includes content on a range of sports and activities to suit all abilities.

Developed by the Youth Sport Trust and inspired by the Canadian 24-Hour Movement Guidelines, these resources support schools to take a whole-day approach to movement, rest, and wellbeing.

Aligned to the national curriculum for PE, the concept of physical literacy and character education, our blueprint offers schools a framework to support the vision, design and delivery of their PE offer.

Active in Mind is designed to improve and prevent mental health issues in adolescence. It uses the evidence of what works to address stress and anxiety in young people, helps them build personal strategies for resilience and uses the power of peer mentoring through a trauma-informed approach.

Boys Move is a professional development programme designed to equip educators with the principles of how to use sport and play to address the mental health and behaviour issues of adolescent boys, improve their wellbeing, and engage them with school.

Developed by the Youth Sport Trust, and endorsed by the National Autistic Society, All About Autism is a digital and practical toolkit that builds upon knowledge of autism spectrum conditions (ASC) and some of the key considerations for making PE and sport inclusive to all.

This toolkit aims to equip organisations and individuals with tools, approaches, and centralised resources to position physical literacy with their staff and workforce.

At the Youth Sport Trust, youth leadership is central to our work. We believe that all young people should have access to leadership opportunities. By providing meaningful leadership experiences, young people can acquire skills and learn behaviours that develop them as individuals, but also prepare them to be active contributors to society throughout and beyond education.

Girls Active is our commitment to fostering girls' participation in PE, sport and physical activity. The programme aims to tackle the barriers girls experience and through cultivating a movement of girls and young women, empower them to take positive action through influencing, leading, and inspiring their peers.

This desktop research explored the position of competitive sport during young people’s transition from primary to secondary school. It was informed by a combination of activities, including a desk-based review of secondary evidence, a review of School Games data, consultations with key individuals and insight from young people.

This document provides headline statistics on quantitative study into girls’ and boys’ experience of physical activity and PE in secondary schools.