Canberra Capitals legend Lucille Bailie reached the highest level in her sport but she knows "basketball is not for everyone".

Bailie says kids should take a "shopping cart" approach to sport and try as many different things as they can in a bid to stamp out childhood obesity.

That's why she brought over a dozen sport and recreation clubs together to help schools deliver programs in a way that helps schools strengthen their physical education curriculum.

The session was led by Associate Professor Shane Pill and aimed to highlight the importance of sport and recreation organisations aligning their resources and expertise with the current Australian health and physical education curriculum.

The ultimate goal was to increase the capacity of schools to deliver quality physical education and to promote a healthy lifestyle among school children, with Bailie desperate to end an unhealthy trend that has left one in four ACT kids overweight.

"I love playing basketball, but basketball is not for everyone," Bailie said.

"We want to offer schools a broad range of sport and recreation activities.

"There's big sports, and they're suitable for a lot of people. But not everyone is going to play for the Capitals, not everyone is going to play with the Wallabies. It's really important that we offer a diversity of sports and sporting opportunities.

"This is one way to increase the amount of quality PE that kids in schools are getting, by improving the resources, local sport and rec organisations, in order to support teachers and schools as they deliver PE."