Physical Literacy Toolkit

This toolkit aims to equip organisations and individuals with tools, approaches, and centralised resources to position physical literacy with their staff and workforce.

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Discover the Physical Literacy Toolkit

Watch a short video on how to use the toolkit effectively, explore its key aims, and access a direct link to download the full resource. You’ll also find a link to the Positive Experiences Collective website, offering further insight and support to embed physical literacy in your setting.
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Discover the Physical Literacy Toolkit

Explore the Toolkit Chapters – Ignite, Unite, Excite

Get a breakdown of the toolkit’s three core chapters, each designed to build momentum at every stage of your physical literacy journey. Start with Ignite, where we connect personal and professional understanding. Then move into Unite, building shared practice, and Excite, where impact grows and ripples out.
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Explore the Toolkit Chapters – Ignite, Unite, Excite

Getting the Most from the Toolkit – Video Insights

Hear from sector stakeholders as they share how the toolkit’s tasks and activities are helping their organisations and workforce engage with physical literacy and embed it in practice. Real examples, real impact.
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Getting the Most from the Toolkit – Video Insights

 

 

What is Physical Literacy?

Physical literacy is our relationship with movement and physical activity across our whole lives. Research shows that positive early experiences can lay the foundation for a lasting habit of being active.

We all have a part to play in creating moments that matter – positive experiences that spark a love of movement. Watch and share the animation to deepen your own understanding of physical literacy and use it to inform and inspire others across your networks.

Also, explore the toolkit below to help put physical literacy principles into practice.

 

How to use the toolkit

Tasks and tools can be lifted straight from the toolkit or adapted to embed within organisational staff training and development workshops, meetings, structures and resources.

If you do this, please just ensure that the School Sport and Activity Sector Partnership and the Physical Literacy Action Group is acknowledged and referenced.

For more information on the different Action Groups and their role within the partnership, please click here.

The toolkit is aligned to the Positive Experience Collective. The Positive Experiences Collective brings together people and organisations committed to helping every child enjoy inclusive, meaningful movement. 

If you're looking to understand and embed physical literacy, the collective offers valuable insight and support, sharing lived experiences, and sector voices to inform your practice and deepen your engagement.

To find out more about the Positive Experiences Collective and to get involved, visit the website.

The aims of the toolkit

Building knowledge and understanding

Increasing advocates for physical literacy informed progress

Collaboration around systemic and/or thematic challenges

Tracking examples of good practice and celebrating progress

Explore the Toolkit Chapters – Ignite, Unite, Excite

The toolkit contains the following chapters designed to build momentum accordingly:

The first phase of the toolkit will focus on 'Ignite'. The toolkit will continue to evolve as we seek ongoing insights, learning and feedback from the sector, with the aim to build a movement from engagement through to enactment and impact. This will translate into new content across the ignite, unite, and excite chapters. If you have any feedback on the toolkit, you can share it with us by completing the following short survey.

Ignite

Connect our networks with their own relationship with movement and physical activity to better understand what we mean by the term, considering what it means personally and professionally.

Unite

Develop consistency of understanding which impacts consistency of policy and practice to ensure positive movement experiences for all.

Excite

Empower and elevate examples of impact, creating more advocates.

You can download the toolkit here. You can download either the:

 

PowerPoint version - slides and notes that can be used as they are or edited

 

PDF version - pre-set slides that can be used as they are

Getting the most from the toolkit

Access videos from sector stakeholders sharing their insights on how the toolkit tasks and activities are helping their organisations and workforce to engage with the concept and deliver through a physical literacy lens.

How we've ignited and connected our organisation and networks - led by Hayley Lever (CEO) and Jess Simons (Active Children Lead) from Greater Manchester Moving

A perspective on usefulness of the ignite tasks - led by Nigel Green, Chair of the International Physical Literacy Association

Educating the coaching workforce on all things physical literacy - led by Ian Gregory, Schools Programme Manager at Chance to Shine

How physical literacy is being embraced and ignited across a multi-academy trust - led by James Mooney, Senior Curriculum Leader for PESSPA at Cabot Learning Federation

How physical literacy is being embraced and ignited across an NGB - led by Karen Roberts, Development Director at British Judo