“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...
Game Player
I’ve delivered P.E to primary aged children for over six years and only now am I discovering how big an impact positive P.E can have on primary children’s lives, especially team...
Secondary school is too late!
I remember at primary school, we had a ‘gym’ teacher. Her name was Mrs Kidd and she taught us “gym” twice a week. We also had a gym hall, the centre hall which had two big areas,...
Samuel Biggart (2nd year student MAPE)– A Critical Review of TGfU
Teaching Physical Education (PE) in Scotland has become an increasingly difficult, demanding, yet rewarding job. With an ever-growing diverse population […]
Dominic Tollan – Parachuting to Success
How fun approaches to parachute activities can help with sensory development and exploration of PE Benchmarks Dominic Tollan While pupils […]