You decide how many hours to teach
There's no required number of hours you need to teach PE for each week, so you can choose. Take your pupils' needs and circumstances into account when deciding how much time to spend on it.
Maintained schools: you must teach PE as part of the National Curriculum at both primary and secondary level – see your requirements.
Academies: you don't have to follow the National Curriculum, but your curriculum at both primary and secondary phases must be 'broad and balanced', and promote pupils' physical development. Read more about your requirements in our other article.
You can also decide what counts as PE time
There's no statutory guidance on what constitutes a PE lesson, so you can decide what counts towards your PE provision. The DfE told us this.