The Legacy and Sustainability plan for the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games — 81 • INTRODUCING MEASURES TO ENCOURAGE CHILDREN TO BECOME MORE PHYSICALLY ACTIVE AND INVOLVED IN SPORT, FROM PRE-SCHOOL TO POST-GRAD School instils fundamental knowledge and values in all children, irrespective of their social background, gender or origin. PE lessons at school offer the main source of physical activity for 80% of children. It is therefore crucial that when they start middle school at the age of 11, all children are not only able to read, write and count, but also able to get involved in sport. Furthermore, participation in clubs goes down as children grow older, especially girls. Paris 2024 wishes to help encourage children into sport and physical activity at school to ensure they become an integral part of their lives right through to adulthood and beyond The Generation 2024 programme will: • help children become more physically active; • strengthen the interconnections between education, the local sporting movement and school sports federations; • create a space that encourages diversity in sport and makes girls want to get involved. AN INITIATIVE ACCELERATED AS A RESULT OF THE GAMES DEPLOYMENT OF A TRIAL OF A DAILY 30-MINUTE PERIOD OF EXERCISE AT SCHOOL In February 2020, the French Ministry of National Education, Youth and Sport, in collaboration with Paris 2024, launched a call for expressions of interest in rolling out a trial of a daily 30-minute period of exercise at school, in addition to PE lessons. The call for expressions of interest aims to raise awareness of and promote initiatives, with a view to replicating them. Paris 2024 has uploaded a toolbox for teaching staff to its Generation 2024 platform. It brings together existing learning resources and newly developed tools such as the action cards designed by teachers from the Créteil academy. The initiative was launched in November 2020, in particular in the Créteil academy, and is expected to be extended to all interested primary schools throughout the country from the start of 2021. The first set of results will be produced at the end of the school year. © – Mixetto/GettyImages