The PE Curriculum we created with Oak National Academy
Creating a national curriculum resource is a significant undertaking. It involves balancing rigorous standards with the messy reality of teaching in a sports hall or…
Adaptive Teaching vs. Responsive Teaching in Physical Education: Harnessing the Power of Task-Focused Feedback
We’ve all been there: standing pitch-side, watching a 5v5 passing activity dissolve into a frustrated cluster in the centre circle. Students were bumping into each…
Beyond ‘Find a Partner’: Inclusive Grouping Strategies in Physical Education
Grouping students is something we do in almost every Physical Education lesson. It is an inherent characteristic of our subject, whether pairing to practice an…
Using ‘Discovery’ teaching styles to engage learners through the physical, social and cognitive domains of learning
Recent research has indicated that PE curriculum time is reducing and only 1 in 3 young people are taking part in physical activity out of…
The New Year Brings a New Start for PE and Positive Habits
The December PE Scholar Monthly Meet Up provided an insightful session focused on leveraging the New Year as a time for a “reset” and establishing…
Tackling Student Agency in PE Together
What if the answer to some of our biggest challenges in PE is not adding more, but letting go? As PE teachers, we are a…
Rethinking the PE Kit
On 7th November the DfE published its updated non-statutory guidance on school uniform policies, primarily aimed at reducing the cost of school uniform for families…
Getting Girls Moving: The Sports Bra Conversation in PE
When it comes to PE, comfort and confidence are just as important as skill and fitness. For many pre-teens and teenage girls, one of the…
Rethinking PE through the Compassionate Systems Framework
A guest blog by Dr Will Patz, Head of Early Years and Lower Primary PE at Dulwich College in Singapore exploring the Compassionate Systsmes Framework…