Is the Physical Education National Curriculum just doing a circuit?

Who introduced the 2014 National Curriuclum for physical education?

 

In 2010, David Cameron was elected prime minister under the coalition government, consisting of the conservative and liberal democrat party’s. The coalition government requested that an expert panel should review the national curriculum for all subjects, in 2011, for their recommendations to promote education and to ensure that the country had the best national curriculum possible for students to learn via (Department for Education, 2011). 

In an election speech in 2009, David Cameron stated that although he wanted the best education for the young people of this country, and 'every penny of the education budget following children into the classroom' (2009), he also didn't want to waste millions on curriculum development. Whilst Cameron and the coalition government changed the national curriculum, they left it open ended and fairly brief, so that students would get a balanced and broad curriculum, but also teachers could teach how they saw appropriate for the students getting kitted up in front of them.

Cameron and the coalition government have introduced academies, which do not have to follow the national curriculum, demonstrating the autonomous way that Cameron wanted to follow and introduce to state schools across the country. As well as academies creating an autonomous way for headteachers, ensuring that money is given to headteachers instead of to the local authority, Cameron also created a more autonomous route for teachers to follow, more so than in the past national curriculums. The 2014 national curriculum for physical education is fairly brief and non-dictated, allowing some autonomy for teachers. This autonomy allows teachers to be able to teach the student in front of them, rather than just having to follow a brief (Felstead, 2013). 

Whilst Cameron and the coalition government were at the front for the introduction of the new national curriculum in 2014, it was teachers from all different areas of expertise, lengths in service and authoritative levels who actually devised and created the national curriculum (www.bbc.co.uk, 2014), this meaning that the curriculum was devised for teachers and students by current practicing teachers.