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Are Enduring Lessons Emerging from Online Learning?

Posted Friday, 29 January 2021

Lockdown 3 is well underway. There is confirmation of extension until at least March, and dark suspicions that it might last until Easter. Winter weather and early darkness. Final hopes for inter-school sport, and national competition, have evaporated. It appears a bleak time for sport in schools. However, there is...

Would Timetable Collaboration Assist School Sport?

Posted Friday, 22 January 2021

One of the biggest impacts of the pandemic on schools has been the almost total suspension of recognisable inter-school sport. As a central, and longstanding, part of the identity of schools, it maybe took the removal of this feature of school life for its value to be fully realised. Children...

Book Review: 'The E-Myth Revisited' by Michael E. Gerber

Posted Tuesday, 12 January 2021

The sub-title of this book, “Why most small businesses don’t work and what to do about it”, may not seem, at first glance, to be applicable to schools. However, this will be of both interest and value to anyone involved in maintaining organisational or administrative processes. The main thesis of...

'Puddings, Bullies and Squashes' edited by Malcolm Tozer

Posted Monday, 4 January 2021

The mystifying title of this book is better explained by its sub-title, “Early Public School Football Codes”. It consists of 21 chapters, each describing the history of football in a single school. Most start with the earliest discoverable references to any suggestion of any game of this nature, and conclude...

What will School Sport Look Like Next Term?

Posted Friday, 11 December 2020

Following Wednesday’s PADSIS Pandemic Forum, attended by 150 Directors of Sport, all major heads’ associations, Independent Schools Council and all relevant National Governing Bodies of Sport, the following overall picture is emerging across the country: Interpretation of Guidance It is recognised by all heads’ associations that the DfE guidance on...

What has been Discovered about Inter-School Sport During Lockdown?

Posted Friday, 4 December 2020

There has been a lot of disruption to what schools have offered in physical activity since the Covid Pandemic swept across the education landscape in March 2020. Some has required amendments of previous programmes, others have necessitated complete re-invention, and there has been a climate of experimentation in modernising PE...