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From Sport to Sport Education

Posted Monday, 17 May 2021

Schools have become really good at coaching sport. Particularly to the most able athletes. There are more specialist coaches, individual programmes, out-of-this-world conditioning facilities, analysis and other support mechanisms than ever before in history. The population of plastic cones has expanded exponentially, and been joined – in an ever growing...

“Are we Having Sports Day this Year?”

Posted Wednesday, 12 May 2021

Everything seems to be going in the right direction. Children are back in schools full time, masks are to be removed in classrooms and restrictions are being loosened. For most schools, this involves a return to inter-school sport, in some form or other. Some are more risk averse than others,...

Book Review

Posted Wednesday, 12 May 2021

“Wicketkeeping” - James Knott and Andrew O’Connor This is an ambitious book, which seeks to provide a “comprehensive modern guide” to this niche position, and is aimed at both players and coaches. Comprehensive is certainly the right word. No aspect of this position is left unconsidered, and the detail that...

Book Review by Neil Rollings

Posted Wednesday, 12 May 2021

This is an ambitious book, which seeks to provide a “comprehensive modern guide” to this niche position, and is aimed at both players and coaches. Comprehensive is certainly the right word. No aspect of this position is left unconsidered, and the detail that is presented is considerable. The authors have...

Contrasting Attitudes to Risk in Returning to School Sport

Posted Friday, 7 May 2021

It’s not just the weather that is improving for the summer term. Prospects for a long-awaited return to inter-school sport competitions are improving daily. The majority of schools that haven’t yet re-started their programmes are planning to do so after half term: those who are continuing to wait until September...

The Challenge of Staffing School Sport

Posted Wednesday, 28 April 2021

It’s the time of year when the timetable is put together, and thoughts turn to the staffing of next year’s various lessons and activities. For leaders of school sport, this is a season of tension, where the spreadsheet detailing the full extent of the sports offer has to be populated...