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Thanks for the Game: Restoring Respect to Sport

Posted Thursday, 18 June 2020

The suspension of the known world required by the current pandemic has had a widespread impact. It has exposed – by omission – what is important. Most significant has been the lack of human contact: seeing friends, personal interaction and shared endeavours. Another factor has been the lack of significant...

Are we Deluding Ourselves about Autumn Term Sport?

Posted Friday, 12 June 2020

The Autumn term is still three months away. That is a long time in a pandemic. Three months ago, the coronavirus had barely been heard of, and didn’t have a name. It is therefore speculative, at best, to try to predict what might be happening in school sport in October...

Case Study: Ellesmere College

Posted Friday, 12 June 2020

Case Study: Ellesmere College This is what we have done, are doing and plan to do, at Ellesmere. PE and Games, from start of lockdown, all went online. We didn’t deliver any live sessions but drove content on our school platform and kept connected via teams at lesson time and...

“Make it Stick: The Science of Successful Learning”- Peter C. Brown

Posted Thursday, 4 June 2020

This is an extraordinary book which examines the science of the conditions in which learning takes place. Many of its conclusions expose the shortcomings of well-established teaching techniques, which turn out to be less effective than has long been assumed. Interestingly, the strategies which learners liked most, and believed were...

Time to Shuffle the Seasons to Accommodate the Crisis?

Posted Friday, 22 May 2020

The unanswerable question that is haunting planners of school sport for the autumn, is: what activities will be permissible, and which restrictions will apply? This is closely followed by the elephant in the room: when will inter-school sport return? September is three months away. That is a long time in...

Summary of AfPE Guidance on Interpreting Government Guidelines in PESSPA

Posted Thursday, 21 May 2020

AfPE has today issued guidance on interpretation of Government Guidelines in a PE context. This, together with changes in NGB Guidelines are summarised below: General It is the responsibility of schools to make judgements, and produce risk assessments (RA) within their own contexts, whilst following Government guidelines Responsibility for safe...