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 into sport and physical activity at school to values in all children, irrespective of their social ensure they become an integral part of their background, gender or origin. PE lessons at lives right through to adulthood and beyond school offer the main source of physical activity The Generation 2024 programme will: for 80% of children. It is therefore crucial that • help children become more physically active; when they start middle school at the age of 11, all children are not only able to read, write and • strengthen the interconnections between count, but also able to get involved in sport. education, the local sporting movement and Furthermore, participation in clubs goes down school sports federations; as children grow older, especially girls. • create a space that encourages diversity in Paris 2024 wishes to help encourage children 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 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 © – Mixetto/GettyImages academy. The initiative was launched in November In February 2020, the French Ministry 2020, in particular in the Créteil academy, of National Education, Youth and Sport, and is expected to be extended to all in collaboration with Paris 2024, launched interested primary schools throughout a call for expressions of interest in rolling the country from the start of 2021. The first out a trial of a daily 30-minute period set of results will be produced at the end of exercise at school, in addition to PE lessons. of the school year.