It comes after an Ofsted report into competitive school sport called on maintained schools and academies to “recognise the wider benefits that sport brings to pupils and their school”.
Ofsted’s investigation set out to explore why so many winning athletes at the London 2012 Olympic Games attended private schools. As part of the work, inspectors visited 35 state schools and 10 independent schools.
The report, Going the Extra Mile, found that competitive sport is successful when staff and schools dedicate “time and energy to organising sport before, during and after school, as well as at weekends”.
It also praised schools that work to identify talented pupils and develop them through extra coaching.
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