The Art of Play foundation (AoP) works to transform physical education (PE) to make it an essential learning experience for the student of grade 1 to 8, with grade-specific curriculum & assessment .

Their key intervention is called the learning league project, which involves deploying specific variations of football that involves all children in the session through the leadership of the Govt. PET teacher.

Each 45 minute session of the Learning League is curated and handheld by the art-of-play educator as per the overall curriculum framework. 80 of these sessions are structured over 40 schools weeks, within which assessments are conducted to understand student learning improvements. The sessions are designed in such a way that every child gets action time.

The Sports Educator of AoP helps provide the on-field demonstration on the toolkit, handhold and troubleshoot operation issues. Together with teachers he/she will ensure that 100 hours of PE teaching-learning are delivered to students per class.

However, It has been reported that 93.7% of Indian young adults do not have access to organized sports. (Ministry of sports and youth affairs annual report, the government of India).

Further,the 198 Million Indian Children that go to 1.5 Million schools in the country today, on an average receive only 30 mins of instruction time per week. ( UNESCO Report )

The bottom line of the issue is that delivering an inclusive physical education to curate social and emotional skills in children is a challenge that remains unanswered in our country today

Art of Play uses National Association for Sport and Physical Education Standards (NAPSE) standards for measuring physical skills and Dream-a-Dream Learning Assessment (DLSAS) to measure the social and emotional skills increments in output.

With the Training of Teachers (ToT) model the proposed impact is :

• A 20% increase in the physical social, emotional and skills of students
• There would be a pool of hundred student-athletes, for every 30 schools
• A team of 30 PE teachers trained in assessment processes and curriculum modules
• PE teachers shall be assessed and their skills will be improved by 35% to 50%
• Execution of interschool sports league (once a year)

With the Direct Impact Model the proposed impact is :

• A 30% increase in the physical, social and emotional skills of the students
• Every student shall receive 80 PE classes a year, amounting 60 hours of PE
• Formation of school team for the inter-school championship