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Will a Pandemic Legacy be the Shifting of Sports Seasons?

Posted Friday, 12 March 2021

Uniquely, there have been two returns to school this academic year. The first was at the start of the autumn term, and the second, most recently, a few days ago. Both were accompanied by restrictions never previously experienced in UK schools. Creative thinking, and new practices, were required. School sport...

Quiet on the Sidelines

Posted Wednesday, 10 March 2021

I have been questioned a few times as to why our coaches are quiet on the sidelines as opposed to some of the other coaches we play against in fixtures and tournaments. I would like to take this opportunity to offer some insight and hopefully give some clarification on what...

NGB Guidance: What Schools can do this Term

Posted Friday, 5 March 2021

No one saw it coming. There were few expectations that all pupils would return to school this term, let alone all together on 8 March. Then, suddenly, the entire sector was thrust into making hasty preparations, whilst simultaneously setting themselves up as field hospitals for a mass testing programme. At...

Return to Sport – an Opportunity!

Posted Tuesday, 23 February 2021

Return to Sport – an Opportunity! Within education, Physicality has been a big casualty of the pandemic with short and long term implications for mental and physical health. Unless we act now and decisively we could feel these effects for a generation. All schools and community providers of sport should...

Book Review - “Saving Rugby Union: The Price of Professionalism” Ross Reyburn

Posted Friday, 5 February 2021

This book addresses the changes in Rugby in the 25 years since the game went professional, and considers the impact of this on player safety. It presents disturbing data on the radically increased number of tackles in the game, and the implications of this on injury levels. This is considered...

Will Children Return to Team Games?

Posted Friday, 5 February 2021

As the country approaches the first anniversary of lockdown, it is – inevitably – almost a year since there was a recognisable programme of school sport. Most schools haven’t had a conventional match day since early March 2020, and even those who managed some school sport in the autumn had...