Physical education and the national curriculum.

In August 1991 the Department of Education and Science and the Welsh Office published their proposals for attainment targets and programmes of study in physical education (PE) for all children of compulsory school age (5-16 years) in maintained schools in England and Wales.' These were devised with the help of a working group that also offered proposals for assessment arrangements, though it is only attainment targets and programmes of study that came into force in the autumn of 1992 (key stages 1-3) and key stage 4 will come three years later.