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NGB Guidance: What Schools can do this Term

Posted Friday, 5 March 2021

No one saw it coming. There were few expectations that all pupils would return to school this term, let alone all together on 8 March. Then, suddenly, the entire sector was thrust into making hasty preparations, whilst simultaneously setting themselves up as field hospitals for a mass testing programme. At...

Return to Sport – an Opportunity!

Posted Tuesday, 23 February 2021

Return to Sport – an Opportunity! Within education, Physicality has been a big casualty of the pandemic with short and long term implications for mental and physical health. Unless we act now and decisively we could feel these effects for a generation. All schools and community providers of sport should...

Book Review - “Saving Rugby Union: The Price of Professionalism” Ross Reyburn

Posted Friday, 5 February 2021

This book addresses the changes in Rugby in the 25 years since the game went professional, and considers the impact of this on player safety. It presents disturbing data on the radically increased number of tackles in the game, and the implications of this on injury levels. This is considered...

Will Children Return to Team Games?

Posted Friday, 5 February 2021

As the country approaches the first anniversary of lockdown, it is – inevitably – almost a year since there was a recognisable programme of school sport. Most schools haven’t had a conventional match day since early March 2020, and even those who managed some school sport in the autumn had...

Are Enduring Lessons Emerging from Online Learning?

Posted Friday, 29 January 2021

Lockdown 3 is well underway. There is confirmation of extension until at least March, and dark suspicions that it might last until Easter. Winter weather and early darkness. Final hopes for inter-school sport, and national competition, have evaporated. It appears a bleak time for sport in schools. However, there is...

Would Timetable Collaboration Assist School Sport?

Posted Friday, 22 January 2021

One of the biggest impacts of the pandemic on schools has been the almost total suspension of recognisable inter-school sport. As a central, and longstanding, part of the identity of schools, it maybe took the removal of this feature of school life for its value to be fully realised. Children...