Students can get half their marks in a new Leaving Certificate physical education subject for projects and performances in activities as diverse as sprinting, camogie, orienteering, or jazz dance.

The education system could be “abdicating responsibility” when it comes to the diet and health of students, with a new study outlining how schools place a “poor value” on physical education.

 

There is a call for a greater emphasis to be placed on physical education in primary schools.

Primary school principals have said we need to be more creative in how we try to tackle obesity in children.