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The Challenge of Staffing School Sport

Posted Wednesday, 28 April 2021

It’s the time of year when the timetable is put together, and thoughts turn to the staffing of next year’s various lessons and activities. For leaders of school sport, this is a season of tension, where the spreadsheet detailing the full extent of the sports offer has to be populated...

Is school sport coming back to life?

Is School Sport Coming Back to Life?

Posted Friday, 23 April 2021

It’s been a bad year for school sport - since April 2020. Everything recognisable seems to have disappeared; every sport has missed a season, there have been school closures, online learning and cleaning protocols everywhere. But, perhaps most significantly, there has been an almost total collapse of inter-school sport. It...

Is School Sport Coming Back?

Posted Friday, 23 April 2021

It’s been a bad year for school sport - since April 2020. Everything recognisable seems to have disappeared; every sport has missed a season, there have been school closures, online learning and cleaning protocols everywhere. But, perhaps most significantly, there has been an almost total collapse of inter-school sport. It...

Rounders England launches values-based new curriculum support for schools

Posted Wednesday, 24 March 2021

In support of primary and secondary teachers and pupils, Rounders England has launched a new curriculum resource. Covering KS2 & 3, the resource pack provides lesson plans that support learning objectives, encompassing six sessions and a new format of the game – all of which provide an ideal way for...

Book Review - 'Out of Thin Air' Michael Crawley

Posted Friday, 19 March 2021

This is a study of the community of long distance running in Ethiopia. The author is a competent athlete, who spends over a year living and training at high altitude amongst the country’s runners, in an attempt to better understand the culture of the sport in the nation. It is...

What will Summer Term Inter-School Sport Look Like?

Posted Friday, 19 March 2021

Enthusiasm is returning to school sport. Pupils are back in school, the sun is shining and the prospects are improving significantly. Most schools are happy to have an unexpected return to winter sports for the few remaining weeks of the Spring term, whilst looking ahead to the Summer with renewed...