Teacher and Pupil Experiences of Student Designed Games. Within Scotland, Curriculum for Excellence has provided an opportunity for schools to develop their own individual curriculum...
Student Article – My Best Lesson
‘My best lesson’ is one that I feel demonstrates the reality of Physical Education and involves several situations that I am sure every teacher has experienced at some time or another....
Student Article ‘Inclusion through Islam: Muslim girls’ experiences within Physical Education’
For many years there has been a large emphasis on inclusion, engagement and participation of all pupils within the physical education (PE) environment, whether through primary or secondary...
Student Article – Exploring the factors that impact attainment in a secondary school context
Research carried out in both the UK and around the world emphasize that educational policy is failing to combat the growing problem that attributes poverty to lower attainment in schools...
I Have a Dream – Karen Erskine
“Last night I lay a sleeping, there came a dream so fair”…. I stood in the most modern, well equipped, well -resourced PE department that had ever been seen in Scotland, and it...
EUPEA REPORT – North West Counties PE Association Conference, November 2017
“As an association, and a profession we are stronger than we think”I had an extremely interesting day attending the North West Counties PE Association conference in Manchester in...
EUPEA Report – EUPEA Board Meeting, Vilnius, Lithuania, May 2018
There were lots of questions asked about the different approaches taken across Europe and hopefully these presentations will have given the Lithuanian teachers lots of different approaches...
Doctor’s Notes: A Personal reflection of the Primary PE sector when writing my Doctorate thesis
An evidence based reflection formed as part of a doctorate thesis which focussed on barriers to PEPAS in the Scottish curriculum. Recent initiatives aimed at making children physically...
“Do we know that parents matter?”
To support our goal of raising attainment & closing the poverty related attainment gap we know that successful learning stems from establishing and developing positive and respectful...
Cameron Stewart – Irish Primary PE Conference
Galway was the setting for the 2018 Irish Primary P.E Association’s annual conference and what a glorious setting it was. I can see why Ed Sheeran wrote a song about this place, it...