SHAPE America
MARCH 21, 2023
Here are a few winter activities for elementary PE that include opportunities to practice personal responsibility, cultural studies, and physical fitness outside. When snowplows create large piles of snow outside our school, each PE class gets a hill of snow to create a snow fort.
SHAPE America
APRIL 18, 2023
Here are five ways to celebrate physical activity during National PE & Sport Week and every week — and all year round: 1. squatting, swimming, biking) in your PE program. Host a PE & Sport Book Club So many life lessons are taught through sport, why not share stories of these lessons with a school book club?
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SHAPE America
OCTOBER 10, 2023
Elementary students get the majority of their movement during the school day in physical education (PE) and recess. It is estimated that kids get about 5,000-6,000 steps during school on non-PE days and 7,000-8,000 steps on PE days. All three of these tenants of PE can be better utilized in classroom settings.
SHAPE America
AUGUST 4, 2022
And, although teaching PE without a gym is not ideal, it is possible. We let students and parents know that we would be going outside in most weather conditions and that they should dress in layers. Teach your students about boundaries and that outdoor PE class is different than recess. We stayed outside in light rain.
Reinventing the Game
DECEMBER 4, 2020
The big assumption I made here (not the best assumption for a holistic picture of PE but adequate for what I want to share here) is that skill acquisition is a big part of our job as PE teachers and it is necessary for us to think about it in order to do better. It is a challenge to see this in perspective.
The Everlearner
MARCH 12, 2025
Dear PE colleagues, Teaching skill acquisition in A-level PE, AS PE and BTEC Sport at KS5 is a fantastic experience. Much of my career has been defined by KS5 classroom-based PE teaching and, I believe, I have taught close to every KS5 course and unit.
Association for Physical Education
MAY 12, 2023
12/05/23 afPE members have been querying the update to the Primary PE and Sport Premium conditions of grant document.
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