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5 Ways to Celebrate PE & Sport Week in Your School … All Year Long!

SHAPE America

SHAPE America’s National Physical Education & Sport Week (May 1-7) is a celebration of the importance of physical education and sport in the lives of kids of all ages. The week also serves as the kickoff to National Physical Fitness and Sports Month. Show how these skills are developed across sport.

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Add Movement to the School Day to Boost Student Physical Activity and Learning

SHAPE America

It’s simply not enough movement, especially for kids who are less involved in extracurricular sports. There are also a record number of kids with social-emotional-behavioral conditions. A CASE FOR MORE MOVEMENT IN SCHOOL Physical activity improves fitness, weight management, mental health, behavior, and most other medical conditions.

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Statement from DfE regarding Primary PE and Sport Premium conditions of grant

Association for Physical Education

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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5 Tips for Teaching Physical Education Without a Gym

SHAPE America

We let students and parents know that we would be going outside in most weather conditions and that they should dress in layers. It’s important to see this as an adventure. Be positive and prepared — as well as flexible and creative! We stayed outside in light rain. Always have a backup plan for when weather sends you inside.

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Primary PE and Sport Premium: Conditions of Grant 2022 to 2023 Update

Association for Physical Education

24/02/2023 Allocations for 2022 to 2023 and the terms and conditions that local authorities, maintained schools and academies must follow.

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Ask Me Anything About Sports Medicine

Stanford Childrens

Alexandra Abbott, MD (right) reviews an x-ray at the Children’s Orthopedic and Sports Medicine Center in Sunnyvale, Calif. I’ve reflected on what it means to have longevity in sports and try to find the importance of things like reducing injury risk, reducing burnout, and trying to be a life-long athlete.

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The Perfect Storm of Learning Conditions in Physical Education (PE)

Reinventing the Game

My header suggest a fixation of the perfect condition, or rather a hint to the frustrations of models, theories and everything else laying down their claims that seems difficult to fit in to practise. Embodied Cognition With and Without Mental Representations: The Case of Embodied Choices in Sports. We are always tweaking them.