The significance of the question is that it will allow students to have greater opportunity towards fundamental movement skills at a young age. In turn, once they reach high school Physical Education, they will have a greater confidence in physical activity and various sports and hopefully continue to be active for life. Growing up, I had opportunities to learn fundamental movement skills from a very young age. My parents always instilled ‘play’ amongst me and my brother, and placed us into a variety of sports and activities that ranged in all types of movements. As I got older, new sports or activities I learned came easier to me than some of my other peers. I liked to participate in various physical activities because I was confident in the various skills, which allowed me to be motivated to play. Drost & Todorovich (2013), states “students often lack motivation to persist in skill practice because they lack the understanding of the usefulness of a specific skill”. It was the opportunity that my parents gave me when I was young to begin being competent in physical literacy and understand the various skills for different activities. Many parents are not able to give their kids the same opportunities, so the next to step in and provide the knowledge to these youth, is elementary teachers. McKenzie (2007) as cited in Jaakkola & Washinton (2013) state that “school-based physical education is probably the most effective way to develop students’ FMS because of its ability to reach the widest cohort of adolescents” (p. 494). Creating this collaboration between elementary and high school physical education classes,  not only benefits the younger students learning and the high school students who get to be mentors for the younger grades, but also for elementary teachers who get to learn new activities and strategies they can continue to teach in their years of education. Further, once students reach high school, they then will have the skills to be physically literate and participate in areas like physical education.

Lastly, this question ties in with British Columbia`s Ministry of Education (2015) physical education new curriculum. One curricular competency students are expected to do, is based around physical literacy. Within this learning standard, students are expected to “develop, refine, and apply fundamental movement skills in a variety of physical activities and environments” and “develop and apply a variety of movement concepts and strategies in different physical activities” (British Columbia Ministry of Education, 2015). It is important that students have fundamental movement skills going into high school as they are expected to know fundamental movement skills for a variety of skill focuses.