‘There is new wording, but there is no real change in what we deliver’: Implementing the new National Curriculum for Physical Education in England

This paper focuses on how physical education (PE) teachers interpreted and implemented a new, minimalist and traditionalist National Curriculum for Physical Education (NCPE) in England. Utilising a single-method, cross-sectional design, 43 teachers participated in semi-structured interviews which explored their approach to teaching the new curriculum. Constant Comparative method was used to develop significant themes through the data analysis...