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What Have we Learned this Term?

Posted Thursday, 24 September 2020

It wouldn’t be like this if it didn’t have to be. Without the unwelcome intervention of a pandemic, autumn term sport in schools would be progressing in its usual form. September Saturdays would have seen hosts of school teams, principally in Hockey, Lacrosse and both codes of Football driving between...

The World Without Inter-School Sport

Posted Thursday, 17 September 2020

Competitive sport has been a defining feature of independent schools for about 200 years. Its history is one of steady growth of fixtures between schools, in steadfast defiance of the considerable disruption to school life, complex transport requirements and disproportionate allocation of resources to a small number of marquee athletes...

Positive Pedagogy for Sport Coaching: Athlete-centred coaching for individual sports by Professor Richard Light and Stephen Harvey

Posted Tuesday, 15 September 2020

This is a part of an excellent series of books by Professor Richard Light on the pedagogy for sports coaching from his coaching experiences and extensive research in the field over a prolonged period of time. This book is an evolution from his book Game Sense: Pedagogy for performance, participation...

What’s Happening at the Start of This Term?

Posted Thursday, 10 September 2020

The summer term was one of speculation in school sport. It seemed at one stage that few recognisable activities would be possible in the autumn term, and that the precautions necessary to achieve anything at all might be prohibitive. There was discussion that any physical activity might be too fraught...

So, What will it Look Like in September?

Posted Friday, 3 July 2020

There has been a term of speculation as to what PE and school sport might look like at the start of the new school year. Opinions, and aspirations, have varied widely, and the ebbs and flows of easing lockdown restrictions have brought accompanying fluctuations in optimism. Most schools have considered...

‘Flow: the psychology of optimal experience’ by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Posted Sunday, 28 June 2020

This an interesting read that dives into the elements/conditions required to experience flow in an optimal experience where there is a sense of seemingly effortless movement and time flies by or stands still. Its intent is to use some of the tools of modern psychology to explore the very ancient...