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The purpose of this study was to create an overview of parent`s thoughts about measuring in physical education and the new Move! monitoring system of physical performance. The Move! monitoring system is a national fitness testing system for fifth and eight graders. It will start in all Finnish primary schools in August 2016. The research problems were formulated to find out about parents thoughts about fitness testing, children`s physical performance and measuring it in physical education. The study also explored how parents feel about the written feedback of their children`s physical performance in new Move! program. This statistical study was made in March 2016. The research subjects were parents of all fifth graders in Helsinki primary schools. The data was collected from the parents by an electronic enquiry. The sample consisted of 103 parents, 27 men and 76 women. The data was analyzed by using SPSS Statistics 23 program and frequencies, cross-tabulations and Pearson`s correlations. In this study, parents felt that it is possible to influence children`s physical activity with physical education. Parents wanted to get a feedback about their children`s physical performance, but they did not think that fitness testing in physical education is the best way to motivate children to be more physically active. Even though parents felt fitness testing in physical education only little positive, they thought that the feedback from the Move! program which describes children`s physical performance motivate strongly both pupils and parents. Only 66 % of the parents thought that the new Move! monitoring system of physical performance is necessary but parents did not have any experience about program before this study. Maybe after they have got to know the Move! program via their own children`s measurements and feedback, they will change their opinion about it. This research reveals that new Move! program has a possibility to achieve its most important effort promoting pupils wellbeing and taking care of physical performance with feedback that motivates both pupils and parents to work for a better physical performance.