Involving girls in discussions about how physical education should be delivered could help dramatically raise engagement levels, a year-long pilot study has revealed.
The Youth Sport Trust project involved 20 schools and saw notable affects on the body confidence of female students and their attitudes to PE and school sport.
Publishing its findings, the charity has gone so far as to warn that not giving female students a say in PE provision could risk “putting them off sport for life”.
The pilot was launched because of fears that a negative attitude towards their own body image prevents many girls from engaging with school sport.
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