Was the NAS involved in reforms to the school PE curriculum?

It would help if NAS made a direct approach to Youth Sports Trust as they seem to be pivotal to Government Policy, and their advertising campaign must cost a great deal more than most charities can afford.

Unfortunately they have no email or on-line form - you have to write to them at Loughborough University. I was tempted, started a letter, then thought....this isn't down to me. This is something for NAS.

As I said above, they have Inclusivity on their website, hence all the different ethnicities in their adverts, but nothing at all about disability. What's the message here - they're a group for able people only? Young disabled try elsewhere? Its pretty shocking that they are clearly advising Government Policy but ignoring the DDA and all other legislation including the Autism Act.

Competitive sport doesn't have to be teamwork, although it mostly is. I could throw a javelin or discus or shot put, and was good at long jump at school. That's individual competitive.

But I couldn't do team sports. As Intenseworld mentions, I ducked if the ball came near me, found the close contact and noise distressing, and I couldn't follow the rules, or keep track of what was going on. Being tall and well built I was forced into playing forward, until I convinced them I couldn't and was sent cross-country running where, unlike the other skivers who went somewhere to smoke, I did do a lot of running. I also couldn't follow cricket - fielding - when every bird flying over I reacted to as if it was the ball.

I've been pressured into tennis but haven't a clue, and I cannot catch a ball or anything thrown. My coordination is disasterous and I've poor hand/eye coordination.

Someone needs to persuade Government that many school children will have difficulty meeting this target. You have to allow for the fact that, despite Government claims they are aiming to diagnose from 3, many children don't get diagnosed until teens or later, and those not meeting diagnosis, who may still have problems, plus dyspraxia and some dyslexics.

The misery that will be caused to many schoolchildren by these blinkered giovernment tactics beggars belief. Because you can see underneath it "team games" writ large, rather than individual event competiveness - just the usual public school nonsense we've come to expect.

It would help if NAS made a direct approach to Youth Sports Trust as they seem to be pivotal to Government Policy, and their advertising campaign must cost a great deal more than most charities can afford.

Unfortunately they have no email or on-line form - you have to write to them at Loughborough University. I was tempted, started a letter, then thought....this isn't down to me. This is something for NAS.

As I said above, they have Inclusivity on their website, hence all the different ethnicities in their adverts, but nothing at all about disability. What's the message here - they're a group for able people only? Young disabled try elsewhere? Its pretty shocking that they are clearly advising Government Policy but ignoring the DDA and all other legislation including the Autism Act.

Competitive sport doesn't have to be teamwork, although it mostly is. I could throw a javelin or discus or shot put, and was good at long jump at school. That's individual competitive.

But I couldn't do team sports. As Intenseworld mentions, I ducked if the ball came near me, found the close contact and noise distressing, and I couldn't follow the rules, or keep track of what was going on. Being tall and well built I was forced into playing forward, until I convinced them I couldn't and was sent cross-country running where, unlike the other skivers who went somewhere to smoke, I did do a lot of running. I also couldn't follow cricket - fielding - when every bird flying over I reacted to as if it was the ball.

I've been pressured into tennis but haven't a clue, and I cannot catch a ball or anything thrown. My coordination is disasterous and I've poor hand/eye coordination.

Someone needs to persuade Government that many school children will have difficulty meeting this target. You have to allow for the fact that, despite Government claims they are aiming to diagnose from 3, many children don't get diagnosed until teens or later, and those not meeting diagnosis, who may still have problems, plus dyspraxia and some dyslexics.

The misery that will be caused to many schoolchildren by these blinkered giovernment tactics beggars belief. Because you can see underneath it "team games" writ large, rather than individual event competiveness - just the usual public school nonsense we've come to expect.