The vision focuses on creating a wide range of positive experiences so everyone can enjoy sport. This section examines the data on pupil opinion of their sporting experiences, as well as staff views on physical activity provision.
Graph 11: Enjoyment of sport ‘a lot’, by settings
Enjoyment of sport in different settings also varied by gender, age, and socio-economic deprivation.
Table 8: Enjoyment of sport in different settings by gender, sector, disability or impairment, and socioeconomic deprivation
| Enjoyment of PE ‘a lot’ | Enjoyment of extracurricular sport ‘a lot’ | Enjoyment of community club sport ‘a lot’ | |
| Gender | |||
| Boy | 67% | 45% | 52% |
| Girl | 49% | 35% | 43% |
| Other | 26% | 22% | 31% |
| Sector | |||
| Primary | 69% | 49% | 51% |
| Secondary | 47% | 32% | 44% |
| Disability or impairment | |||
| Disability or impairment | 53% | 36% | 40% |
| No disability or impairment | 58% | 40% | 48% |
| Socioeconomic deprivation | |||
| FSM1 (least deprived) | 57% | 42% | 53% |
| FSM2 | 57% | 40% | 50% |
| FSM3 | 55% | 38% | 44% |
| FSM4 (most deprived) | 61% | 38% | 39% |
The 2022 School Sport Survey also asked pupils the degree to which they believe their ideas about PE and school sport were listened to.
15% of pupils believe that their ideas about PE and school sport are ‘always’ listened to, while 45% of pupils feel listened to ‘sometimes’.
Table 9: Perceptions of feeling listened to regarding PE and school sport by gender and disability or impairment
| Always | Sometimes | Never | |
| Gender | |||
| Boy | 18% | 46% | 14% |
| Girl | 13% | 45% | 15% |
| Other | 6% | 21% | 26% |
| Disability or impairment | |||
| Disability or impairment | 19% | 37% | 17% |
| No disability or impairment | 15% | 46% | 15% |
Young people’s confidence to engage in new sporting opportunities has a large impact on their participation in sport. The 2018 Sport Wales Survey showed that pupils who are very confident in trying new activities are twice as likely to participate in sport three or more times per week.
In the 2022 School Sport Survey, 28% of pupils stated that they were ‘very confident’ in trying new sports, while 8% of pupils said they were ‘not confident at all’.
Graph 12: Confidence to try new sports, by gender
Although boys were significantly more likely than girls to say that they were ‘very confident’ in trying new sports, both genders were equally as likely to say they were ‘quite confident’.