British kids join exercise lesson from home

LONDON: Hundreds of thousands of British children joined in an online live physical education (PE) class on Monday after the government ordered the closure of the nation’s schools to curb the spread of coronavirus. British children join exercise lesson from home. The lesson, hosted by well-known British fitness instructor Joe Wicks and plugged by schools and the media, attracted about 800,000 viewers when he streamed it live on YouTube.”I’m going to be your PE teacher for the nation which I thought was just going to the UK, but actually has turned out to be so much bigger,” Wicks, who has 1.17 million subscribers to his YouTube channel, said at the start of the class which he will run every week day. With the exception of children of key workers such as medical staff, schools shut their doors for the foreseeable future at the end of last week, leaving parents to look after their children and oversee their education. Reuters