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Book Review - 'The Long Win: The Search for a Better Way to Succeed' by Cath Bishop

Posted Wednesday, 28 October 2020

Cath Bishop is a former Olympic medallist, Foreign Office diplomat, civil servant and management consultant. From this unique perspective, she examines the concept of competition. She challenges the idea that winning and losing are binary alternatives, and questions whether the single-minded pursuit of victory on these terms is a positive...

Has Covid provided a solution to the clash between school cricket and exams?

Posted Friday, 16 October 2020

I moved this summer from a boarding school in Somerset to a highly academic co-educational day school in Central London. This has made me aware of the enormous impact that exam pressures have on the summer cricket season. In this school, the reality is that cricket only exists in the...

Does Inter-School Sport get in the Way of Increasing Participation?

Posted Friday, 16 October 2020

Any discussion of the aims of physical activity in schools doesn’t take long to get round to participation rates. This is usually a reference to the number of pupils who willingly (often voluntarily) take part in various forms of sport and exercise. In some environments, this means taking part in...

What’s the Future for Autumn Term Cricket?

Posted Friday, 9 October 2020

The first major experiment into autumn term cricket has recently ended. The concept has been talked about for years, and occasionally experimented with by the odd school, but a large scale initiative has never before been attempted. Driven by the unique circumstances of the pandemic, many schools have this year...

Remembering Brian Ashley

Posted Thursday, 8 October 2020

News has just reached me (Malcolm Tozer) that Brian Ashley died in January at the age of 84. His greatest legacy to PE is the Independent Schools Physical Education Conference (ISPEC) which had its 50th annual Easter conference in 2019. The next conference is planned for Bryanston School in 2021...

Preparing for Longer Term Disruption to School Sport

Posted Friday, 2 October 2020

When the autumn term started, only a month ago, there was considerable optimism surrounding prospects for sport in the schools’ sector. Last minute changes in government legislation had made full forms of Hockey and Soccer possible, and there was considerable momentum developing. Some schools restored diluted forms of inter-school competition...