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Within this blog post, I will be evaluating how physical education can promote well-being in primary education. Physical education has lots of benefits to children at school as they are learning different sports, how to keep healthy but recently learning how to look after themselves especially with what to eat. Children today are facing so many issues than earlier generations... Children are getting overweight, mental health issues and boys behaving badly and many more issues they are facing today. According to an NHS report childhood, obesity is rising once again. Children in their first year at school show 10% are in fact obese! In 2015-2016 it was reported that 9.3% of children in primary reception are obese and that figure the year before was 9.1% an increase of 0.2%. The rate also increased to 10-11-year-olds from 19.1% in 2015 to 19.8% in 2016. - Nearly one in five. According to the figures, boys are dangerous overweight than girls according to the latest NCMP results publish

Within this blog post, we shall be exploring how science and technology activities are made engaging and relevant to primary education. STEM is known as Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics and is being promoted a lot more within Primary schools. These skills are crucial to have a strong economy and technological advance society. Over the last 10-15 years, we have had so many changes with technology around the world. - New innovations such as artificial intelligence, self-service, drones, self-driving cars and more which are constantly changing the way we live and evolve. According to our ex prime minster David Cameron he said "If we are going to succeed as a country than we need to train more scientists and more engineers" (David Cameron, 2013) We are facing a shortage of people working in these careers for the future. Engineers and technicians we will be short of 1 million new people by 2020. (Royal Academy of engineers, 2015) A review was recently taken b