Super Movers provides thousands of UK primary schools with free sports equipment

Super Movers provides thousands of UK primary schools with free sports equipment

In 2023 the Department of Education recorded 1.5 million special educational needs and disabled children in England. Yet the most recent findings by Activity Alliance's 'My Active Future' report found that only one in four (25%) disabled children take part in sport and physical activity all of the time at school compared to 41% of non-disabled children.

Super Movers for Every Body looks to change that - by trying to get more children into inclusive sports with a free giveaway of over 6,500 sport equipment packs to UK primary schools and a comprehensive collection of Paralympic sport teaching and learning resources on BBC Teach available free to all.

At the launch of the campaign, the Super Movers for Every Body partnership made available 3,300 inclusive sport equipment packs, funded by the Premier League. But due to overwhelming demand, and the response from teachers and children trying the blind football activities, the partnership provided an additional 3,220 blind football packs to be allocated to schools.

This has enabled the campaign to enrich the sport offering of almost a third of UK primary schools, ensuring a lack of equipment wouldn't be a barrier to disabled primary children actively participating in PE and sport. Schools that registered, but missed out on packs will instead receive posters, supporting them to bring disability sport representation to sports hall walls.

Source: Information: Association for Physical Education. Image: Sport England images.