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Do Girls Really Gain from a Gender-blind Approach to Sport in Co-Education?

Posted Monday, 18 April 2022

What constitutes co-educational school sport is an emerging question. In this week’s guest blog, Asha Riley suggests that it may be more complex than it appears at first sight Progressive attitudes towards gender and equality have sparked meaningful discussion about every facet of co-education over recent years. Whilst this has...

Broadening the Success Criteria of School Sport

Posted Tuesday, 22 March 2022

Broadening the Success Criteria of School Sport Sport in British-type schools emerged, predominantly, in the second half of the 19th century. It was built on a foundation of compulsory team games for all, and a strong conviction that these developed desirable personal qualities. From the earliest days, there was competition...

The Mounting Crisis of Graduate Sports Assistants.

Posted Thursday, 10 March 2022

In a previous era, 18 year old school leavers, usually from the southern hemisphere, provided a source of unskilled, cheap labour to the sports departments of schools. This was never especially satisfactory, but the contribution of classroom teachers to games coaching in those days generally meant that there wasn’t a...

What Can Rugby Learn from School Boxing?

Posted Thursday, 24 February 2022

Organised sport in schools emerged in the mid-nineteenth century. There had been some Cricket and Rowing before that, but anything resembling a regular programme of compulsory sport owes its foundation to structural initiatives at Rugby School in the 1830s. Team games were the flagships of the programme, principally football and...

Broadening the Success Criteria of School Sport

Posted Friday, 4 February 2022

Sport in British-type schools emerged, predominantly, in the second half of the 19th century. It was built on a foundation of compulsory team games for all, and a strong conviction that these developed desirable personal qualities. From the earliest days, there was competition between schools in a small number of...

What is Co-Educational Sport?

Posted Thursday, 20 January 2022

Most independent schools which are currently co-educational were originally boys-only. A small number of girls’ schools successfully took boys, but not in anywhere near the same volume that their counterparts did. This has meant that most co-educational schools have assumed a boys’ sport model and attempted to apply that to...