New Book Club We have been talking about starting a ‘book club’ to review and share some of the great reading in and around PE, sport and physical activity for some time and what better … Read More
Exploring Physical Education in England: Part of the 2021 Series
This blog series seeks to explore how Physical Education is designed and practiced in countries around the world. The intention is to give insight and hopefully inspiration to help improve it for all young people, … Read More
Leading Change Webinar
Leading Change – Will Swaithes (first aired on 10th August 2020) A chance to discuss and explore key changes that are perhaps needed within Physical Education to ensure it is more meaningful and relevant to … Read More
Reflect and Reframe Webinar
Reflect and reframe – Will Swaithes (first aired on 26th May 2020) Covid-19 national lockdown has provided a unique opportunity to stop, reflect on what is working and what is not around physical education provision … Read More
Teaching Wellbeing Webinar
Teaching wellbeing – Will Swaithes (first aired on 16th December 2020) Exploring the why, how and what should be covered in schools to support student wellbeing. This webinar includes: defining wellbeing, exploring research and connectivity … Read More
13 top wellbeing tips for busy teachers
Teaching is an exhausting career at the best of times but 2020 has really tested our resilience and resolve, and 2021 may well be just as challenging. Whilst none of this is rocket science, perhaps … Read More
PE at Home Free Resource Cards
PE at Home Free Resources PE at Home resource cards are back! These resources are ideal for home learning or remote physical education lessons. Each of the following activities contain four / five resource cards, … Read More
Have you found your Ikigai?
This quick blog introduces the idea of ikigai and signposts to a useful ‘planning for purpose’ self-review worksheet for educators. I am a great believer that happy people are productive people. And with that comes … Read More
E in PE Challenge – PE Remote Learning
With everyone back to planning remote PE lessons we wanted to focus on the “E in PE” and promote meaningful PE experiences at home (moving beyond the typical or one dimensional fitness based activities which … Read More
What Makes Great Pedagogy?
Understanding what makes great pedagogy has long been debated, this post aims to draw upon educational research and suggest 9 characteristics / features of great pedagogy. There is a strong consensus that high performance in … Read More