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The Mounting Crisis of Graduate Sports Assistants.

Posted Thursday, 10 March 2022

In a previous era, 18 year old school leavers, usually from the southern hemisphere, provided a source of unskilled, cheap labour to the sports departments of schools. This was never especially satisfactory, but the contribution of classroom teachers to games coaching in those days generally meant that there wasn’t a...

What Can Rugby Learn from School Boxing?

Posted Thursday, 24 February 2022

Organised sport in schools emerged in the mid-nineteenth century. There had been some Cricket and Rowing before that, but anything resembling a regular programme of compulsory sport owes its foundation to structural initiatives at Rugby School in the 1830s. Team games were the flagships of the programme, principally football and...

Broadening the Success Criteria of School Sport

Posted Friday, 4 February 2022

Sport in British-type schools emerged, predominantly, in the second half of the 19th century. It was built on a foundation of compulsory team games for all, and a strong conviction that these developed desirable personal qualities. From the earliest days, there was competition between schools in a small number of...

What is Co-Educational Sport?

Posted Thursday, 20 January 2022

Most independent schools which are currently co-educational were originally boys-only. A small number of girls’ schools successfully took boys, but not in anywhere near the same volume that their counterparts did. This has meant that most co-educational schools have assumed a boys’ sport model and attempted to apply that to...

What is Co-Educational Sport?

Posted Thursday, 20 January 2022

Most independent schools which are currently co-educational were originally boys-only. A small number of girls’ schools successfully took boys, but not in anywhere near the same volume that their counterparts did. This has meant that most co-educational schools have assumed a boys’ sport model and attempted to apply that to...

Developing School Sport Through Timetable Collaboration

Posted Thursday, 13 January 2022

Developing School Sport Through Timetable Collaboration School sport is difficult in December and January. Dark nights make after-school sport impossible without floodlit facilities, and even schools who have this advantage are only able to illuminate small numbers of pitches and courts. Those with Saturday sport are able to keep the...