Physical literacy is the foundation of physical education. It is not a programme, but an outcome of any structured physical education provision, which is achieved more readily if learners encounter a range of age and stage appropriate opportunities. Quality in primary Physical Education (QPPE) should enable children and young people to become physically literate, and the provision to be physically active should feature from the early years through the entire school journey.

Fundamental movement skills are a vital aspect of physical literacy and to the development of healthy, able, and active citizens. Considering this importance to rounded human development this project will place emphasis on supporting physical literacy through the encouragement of active play, such as running, jumping, climbing, dancing, and skipping. This environment will prepare and up-skill teachers of primary physical education to provide engaging, challenging and safe physical activities that ultimately will assist the development towards a physically literate young adult.

The project will enable teachers of Physical Education to raise standards by providing information and exemplars to improve rates of attainment and achievement in physical education; it will close achievement gaps by revealing the means to tailor physical education to the needs of individual pupils so that no child is held back from reaching his/her potential; it will motivate and inspire teachers to improve the quality and relevance of the physical education curriculum by providing examples from around Europe by preparing them for future education, employment and leisure; and developing young people as active individuals; and finally by delivering choice and diversity in order to give pupils and their communities power to express a choice and an engagement.