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Book Review: 'The E-Myth Revisited' by Michael E. Gerber

Posted Tuesday, 12 January 2021

The sub-title of this book, “Why most small businesses don’t work and what to do about it”, may not seem, at first glance, to be applicable to schools. However, this will be of both interest and value to anyone involved in maintaining organisational or administrative processes. The main thesis of...

'Puddings, Bullies and Squashes' edited by Malcolm Tozer

Posted Monday, 4 January 2021

The mystifying title of this book is better explained by its sub-title, “Early Public School Football Codes”. It consists of 21 chapters, each describing the history of football in a single school. Most start with the earliest discoverable references to any suggestion of any game of this nature, and conclude...

What will School Sport Look Like Next Term?

Posted Friday, 11 December 2020

Following Wednesday’s PADSIS Pandemic Forum, attended by 150 Directors of Sport, all major heads’ associations, Independent Schools Council and all relevant National Governing Bodies of Sport, the following overall picture is emerging across the country: Interpretation of Guidance It is recognised by all heads’ associations that the DfE guidance on...

What has been Discovered about Inter-School Sport During Lockdown?

Posted Friday, 4 December 2020

There has been a lot of disruption to what schools have offered in physical activity since the Covid Pandemic swept across the education landscape in March 2020. Some has required amendments of previous programmes, others have necessitated complete re-invention, and there has been a climate of experimentation in modernising PE...

“The Social Animal” by David Brooks

Posted Tuesday, 1 December 2020

In this illuminating and compelling book, David Brooks weaves a vast array of new research into the lives of two fictional characters, Harold and Erica, following them from infancy to old age. In doing so, he reveals a fundamental new understanding of human nature. Most success stories are explained at...

The Growth of High Performance in School Sport

Posted Friday, 27 November 2020

Twenty years ago it was all very different. Schools had specialist, qualified, PE teachers, who were expected to operate all dimensions of the sports programme. A major part of the role of such teachers was to prepare teams for inter-school sport. In boys’ schools (many of which became co-educational about...