Eleanor Oldroyd presenter of  Thursday night’s 5 live sports, will be focusing on London’s 2012 Olympic Games both on air and on her blog. She is hoping that the Summer Olympics will inspire children to make sport a part of their lives, for the rest of their lives. Eleanor says that although not everyone is going to have a particular talent or dedication for sport, it is still important that there is somewhere for them to go and for someone to teach them if they so wish.

How do we deliver the legacy of inspiration? At the moment, no-one seems entirely sure, but it does seems logical to assume that schools should play a central part in helping our children to get active.

This week  for 5 Live Sport, Eleanor is visiting a school in Worcestershire to find out how a thriving SSP actually works.

Caroline Siddell who was named PE teacher of the year in 2009 by the Sunday Times newspaper, said that the outcry created by the threat to disband the SSP’s was a clear indication of how highly valued they actually are.

In December, the Department for Education announced that the SSP programme will continue unchanged until the end of this school year, then on a reduced scale until the summer of 2013.