{"id":18848,"date":"2019-07-28T14:46:12","date_gmt":"2019-07-28T14:46:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.englishforums.com\/news\/?p=18848"},"modified":"2019-07-28T14:46:12","modified_gmt":"2019-07-28T14:46:12","slug":"milton-park-school-sports-kits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/milton-park-school-sports-kits\/","title":{"rendered":"Milton Park Primary School receives professional sports kits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Milton Park Primary School has received a great new addition to its sports program &#8211; <\/span><b>professional-looking football jerseys and shorts, awarded to them by the <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/plprimarystars.com\/news-and-events\/kit-equipment-2019\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b>Premier League Primary Stars Kit and Equipment Scheme<\/b><\/a><b>.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> The scheme is an initiative by the United Kingdom Football Foundation, in an attempt to promote sports among young children.\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Premier League is one of the most significant football events on a global scale, and young children often watch it and support their favorite teams and players. Some part of <\/span><b>the appeal of the tournament comes from the fantastic sports kits that players wear during games.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">For Milton Park to receive this support, <\/span><b>two teachers from the school had to go through the detailed application process.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Once all applications were evaluated, the school was contacted, and the good news was announced.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Milton Park, schools and sports<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Milton Park Primary and many other schools across the United Kingdom are struggling with making students interested in sports programs. The Office for Standards in Education, Children&#8217;s Services and Skills has recently released a statement <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.englishforums.com\/news\/ofsted-sports-major-part-of-curriculum\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">saying<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> that <\/span><b>sports classes should be an essential part of schools\u2019 curriculums.\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In a modern-day society where technology is occupying a huge part of our everyday life, physical activity has been in decline. To battle this tendency, <\/span><b>it is essential that children find a passion for any given sport during their early education.\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Sports equipment is just one way of sparking children&#8217;s\u2019 interest in sports classes; however, this is not enough. There should be a collective<\/span><b> effort to boost sports programs across schools, to keep children in shape and good health.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Milton Park Primary School has received a great new addition to its sports program &#8211; professional-looking football jerseys and shorts, awarded to them by the Premier League Primary Stars Kit and Equipment Scheme. The scheme is an initiative by the United Kingdom Football Foundation, in an attempt to promote sports among young children.\u00a0 The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":18849,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18848"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18848\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}