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Maintaining the Aspirational Pathway

Posted Monday, 23 June 2014

Enthusiasm for team games is rampant amongst pre adolescents. In most independent schools, voluntary Year Seven games practices will attract approximately 75% of pupils. The challenge is to cope with large numbers, and yet still produce competitive teams. A significant minority of schools forbid some pupils from attending "squad" practices,...

England Netball’s response to Sally Peck's Article in the Daily Telegraph

Posted Monday, 2 June 2014

England Netball’s response to Sally Peck The netball world was collectively outraged last week by Sally Peck’s article [ http://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/mother-tongue/10851468/Obesity-crisis-H... on the Telegraph website. The title, which states that “netball is making your daughter fat” is irresponsible and untrue. England Netball has 90,150 affiliated members, 37,860 of those are school...

Book Review: Legacy

Posted Friday, 30 May 2014

by James Kerr Legacy is a thoroughly enjoyable and enthralling book that looks at the methods of the All Blacks and the core principles behind their continued success. Kerr has gathered this whilst being embedded with the All Blacks for five weeks during 2010. The underlying theme of the book...

The Creative Approach to Teaching Games in Key Stages Three and Four

Posted Friday, 30 May 2014

The notion of creativity has been a consistent feature of educational initiatives over the past few years. The QCA’s creativity project ‘ Creativity: find it, promote it’ (2004) provided practical materials and examples for developing creativity in schools. In 2003 the Office for Standards in Education (Ofsted) carried out a...

Teaching Persistence through Physical Activity

Posted Friday, 30 May 2014

Few would dispute the desirability of children developing persistence in the face of difficulty. Many would feel that physical activities can contribute to this development, and would occasionally refer to this (or the more vague concept of developing "character") as a justification of the prominence of Games in school life...

INTRODUCING: Our official travel partners

Posted Friday, 9 May 2014

INTRODUCING: Our official travel partners As official Travel Partners of Independent Coach Education and key sponsors of our events we have been working closely with Edwin Doran Sports Tours for over thirty years. Edwin Doran Sports Tours was launched in 1974 as one of the first operators of its kind,...