Dame Kelly Holmes (the double Olympic Gold Champion 8oom, 1500m at the Athens Olympics in2004) has taken on the role of National School Sport Champion, in an attempt to get more children, young people involved in physical education and school sport.
Her work will be co-ordinated by the Youth Sport Trust, the Government funded body working to improve the quality and quantity of physical education and sport available to school age children inside and outside the curriculum.
She will also support the DfES/BSKYBs Living for Sport project, which targets teenagers dropping out of school and help in a campaign run by Norwich Union aimed at persuading more girls to take up and maintain sporting activity.
Kelly will visit schools across the country to give added momentum to the Government’s School Sport Strategy and in the lead up to the London Olympics in 2012.
For more information:-
www.teachernet.gov.uk/pe
www.youthsporttrust.org/page/pesscl
www.teachernet.gov.uk/teachingandlearning/subjects/pe/nationalstrategy