Regular physical activity provides numerous health benefits – from leaner bodies and lower blood pressure to improved mental health and cognitive functioning. As the school physical education programme promotes physical activity and can teach skills as well as form or change behaviour, it holds an important key to influencing health and well – being across the life span. To improve the fitness of students, we need to rethink the design and delivery of school – based physical education programme. Adults in the United States think that information about health was more important for students to learn the content in language arts, mathematics, science, history or any other subject. Deposit this high ranking, most school devote minimal curriculum time to teaching students how to lead healthy lives. Our first step might be to consider ways to increase curriculum time devoted to physical education. In addition, schools need to thoughtfully analyse the design and delivery of school physical education programme to ensure that they are engaging, developmentally appropriate, Inclusive and instructionally powerful.