Guidance

Teacher training: physical health and fitness

Practical training materials for primary and secondary schools to use to train staff to teach about physical health and fitness.

• From: Department for Education
• Published: 19 November 2020

Applies to England

Documents

Physical health and fitness teacher training module

MS PowerPoint Presentation, 598 KB

Details

This training module supports the physical health and mental wellbeing section of the statutory relationships, sex and health education curriculum.

The module contains key knowledge and facts to help teachers understand what they must teach. It includes information on:

• active and healthy lifestyles
• the benefits of physical activity
• the risks of an inactive lifestyle
• mental wellbeing and activity
• blood, organ and stem cell donation

These slides should be adapted to suit individual school context. This can include adding your own videos and resources to make your teaching training sessions more visual and interactive.

Related topics

When planning your curriculum, consider how you will link these topics.

Physical health and fitness is related to:

• the national curriculum for PE
• mental wellbeing
• healthy eating
• health and prevention
• changing adolescent body

Published 19 November 2020