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Is School Sport Coming Back?

Posted Friday, 23 April 2021

It’s been a bad year for school sport - since April 2020. Everything recognisable seems to have disappeared; every sport has missed a season, there have been school closures, online learning and cleaning protocols everywhere. But, perhaps most significantly, there has been an almost total collapse of inter-school sport. It...

Rounders England launches values-based new curriculum support for schools

Posted Wednesday, 24 March 2021

In support of primary and secondary teachers and pupils, Rounders England has launched a new curriculum resource. Covering KS2 & 3, the resource pack provides lesson plans that support learning objectives, encompassing six sessions and a new format of the game – all of which provide an ideal way for...

Book Review - 'Out of Thin Air' Michael Crawley

Posted Friday, 19 March 2021

This is a study of the community of long distance running in Ethiopia. The author is a competent athlete, who spends over a year living and training at high altitude amongst the country’s runners, in an attempt to better understand the culture of the sport in the nation. It is...

What will Summer Term Inter-School Sport Look Like?

Posted Friday, 19 March 2021

Enthusiasm is returning to school sport. Pupils are back in school, the sun is shining and the prospects are improving significantly. Most schools are happy to have an unexpected return to winter sports for the few remaining weeks of the Spring term, whilst looking ahead to the Summer with renewed...

Will a Pandemic Legacy be the Shifting of Sports Seasons?

Posted Friday, 12 March 2021

Uniquely, there have been two returns to school this academic year. The first was at the start of the autumn term, and the second, most recently, a few days ago. Both were accompanied by restrictions never previously experienced in UK schools. Creative thinking, and new practices, were required. School sport...

Quiet on the Sidelines

Posted Wednesday, 10 March 2021

I have been questioned a few times as to why our coaches are quiet on the sidelines as opposed to some of the other coaches we play against in fixtures and tournaments. I would like to take this opportunity to offer some insight and hopefully give some clarification on what...