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Are you trying to do too much in the Summer Term?

Posted Friday, 17 June 2022

The Spring Term has always been an uninspiring time for school sport. Dark nights, cold and wet weather, frosty mornings and mock exams. It has always been a season demanding dogged persistence from teachers and coaches and anticipating better times ahead. Those better times used to be the Summer Term...

Where Have All the Coaches Gone?

Posted Tuesday, 10 May 2022

School sport has become increasingly dependent upon part time, external coaches. Few people think this is a great idea, but it is a simple, and cheap, expedient when the minimum number of staff required to operate the programme cannot be met by a school’s own resources. Schools who built their...

What Does Co-Educational School Sport Really Mean?

Posted Tuesday, 3 May 2022

The history of education in the UK is firmly rooted in single sex provision. The only secondary education in the 19th century was for boys, and the opportunities which emerged for girls in the early 20th century were deliberately separate. When maintained secondary schools emerged, many were single sex; even...

What Does Co-Educational School Sport Really Mean?

Posted Wednesday, 27 April 2022

The history of education in the UK is firmly rooted in single sex provision. The only secondary education in the 19th century was for boys, and the opportunities which emerged for girls in the early 20th century were deliberately separate. When maintained secondary schools emerged, many were single sex; even...

What Does Co-Educational School Sport Really Mean?

Posted Wednesday, 27 April 2022

The history of education in the UK is firmly rooted in single sex provision. The only secondary education in the 19th century was for boys, and the opportunities which emerged for girls in the early 20th century were deliberately separate. When maintained secondary schools emerged, many were single sex; even...

Do Girls Really Gain from a Gender-blind Approach to Sport in Co-Education?

Posted Monday, 18 April 2022

What constitutes co-educational school sport is an emerging question. In this week’s guest blog, Asha Riley suggests that it may be more complex than it appears at first sight Progressive attitudes towards gender and equality have sparked meaningful discussion about every facet of co-education over recent years. Whilst this has...