ABSTRACT
This chapter considers the opportunities, issues and challenges faced by primary schools and the range of different adults who take responsibility for the delivery of primary school physical education curriculums and programmes of extra-curricular school sport or physical activity. It discusses that the opportunities, challenges and consequences regarding the teaching of physical education and school sport at a level that encompasses but also moves beyond the technical issue of actual delivery. The chapter offers a position that supports practitioners, teachers, coaches and others to consider the contribution they can make to a physical education and school sport curriculum or programme specifically in relation to their strategic fit against the vision, aims and organisational culture. It attempts to take a more flexible, progressive and perhaps even more pragmatic position by offering the potential to develop and evolve practice alongside a shifting cultural, social and political landscape.
