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The Simple Mathematics of Sports Coaching

Posted Thursday, 19 April 2018

Sports coaching has always had a dilemma. Is its aim to achieve Stakhanovite efficiency and maximise chance of victory through the elimination of error? Winning ugly. Or is it about creativity and enterprise? The latter brings with it risk, and inevitable error, and sometimes these lead to defeat. Winning beautifully?...

Helping pupils deal with significant personal disappointments in their sport

Posted Friday, 16 March 2018

Article written by: Mark Burley, Director of Sport, Canford School, Feb 2018 Within the sporting experience of adolescents there are certain events that occur which might well lead to additional stress and emotional upheaval. Teachers and coaches should be aware of occurrences such as significant injuries, de-selection and exits from...

There's not much Competition without Collaboration

Posted Monday, 26 February 2018

Most schools appear to have a substantial programme of competition. Fixtures against other schools, local and national tournaments, house matches: competition appears to be at the heart of much school sport. Closer consideration, however, reveals that most of what appears to be competition between schools is actually a collaboration between...

There’s not much Competition without Collaboration in School Sport

Posted Wednesday, 21 February 2018

Most schools appear to have a substantial programme of competition. Fixtures against other schools, local and national tournaments, house matches: competition appears to be at the heart of much school sport. Closer consideration, however, reveals that most of what appears to be competition between schools is actually a collaboration between...

Why do we try to fit so much into the Boys' Spring Term?

Posted Friday, 16 February 2018

If school terms had to be arranged in rank order of attractiveness, the Spring Term would be third, by some distance, for most teachers, parents and pupils. It starts in the worst weather of the year, when it is dark by 4.00pm. It is regularly cold and wet, with frequent...

Is there enough P in PE ?

Posted Wednesday, 29 November 2017

When PT was first introduced into schools, its purpose was clear and unequivocal. It was to provide exercise in order to improve health. To combat diseases prevalent in poverty, and to raise standards of fitness, often primarily for military service. It might have been a limited programme, with some fairly...