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What's the Future for School Swimming?

Posted Friday, 24 January 2020

Facilities for swimming in schools are better than they have ever been. Pools were a primary weapon in the arms race of development. Many schools have beautiful, bright, inspiring pools, and changing facilities to match. Rare now is the grim, dark and cold forbidding swimming environment of the mid-twentieth century...

Is January Really the Best Time for Outdoor Netball?

Posted Friday, 17 January 2020

Netball in UK is on the crest of a wave. This follows the unprecedented success of the national team, and a widely televised home World Cup played in front of packed crowds. It has a higher profile than ever before, and this is reflected in the popularity of the youth...

Is the Time Right for PE and Games?

Posted Thursday, 9 January 2020

Nobody envies the timetable architect in any school. It is impossible to please everyone, and there is a danger that the compromise satisfies no one. If there was a perfect way, it would have been discovered long ago. The search for the perfect model continues through endless experimentation. Some subjects...

Are the Glory Days of the Alphabet Game Over?

Posted Friday, 13 December 2019

The 1990s were the peak of the Alphabet Game in school sport. This reflected pressure from parents who all wanted their children to be in a school team, and heralded an unprecedented era of inclusivity. There was an exponential growth in the number of teams which schools operated in every...

Book Review - 'The Infinite Game' by Simon Sinek

Posted Friday, 13 December 2019

The premise of this book is the distinction between “finite” games that exist for a fixed period of time and have a winner and a loser, and “infinite” games, which last indefinitely and have no winner: there is only ahead and behind. The author suggests that this is mindset, which...

Should the Half Game Rule end at Under 15?

Posted Friday, 6 December 2019

No one would dispute the spirit of the RFU’s recently introduced rule requiring all members of a match day squad to participate in at least half of the available game time. Those marginal players standing on winter touchlines hoping for a few minutes at the end of a match whose...