SPIRALPE

  As I travel around the country speaking to teachers in lots of different primary schools, it often surprises me to see the approach many are still taking for both their planning and delivery of their physical education lessons.   Despite the abundance of high quality, well thought out PE curriculum choices schools now have access to, we see far too many still delivering PE through half term blocks focusing on a particular sport or activity. They are missing a huge opportunity to make a much bigger impact. Pretty much all of the leading curriculum products that have come to the fore in the past few years, including the SPIRALPE platform that we license, have been built by passionate, sports minded people.  Over the past 10 years I ’ ve had the opportunity to speak with lots of these PE curriculum developers at various events and through many social media interactions; usually in our slightly frustrating echo chamber, and here ’ s what I ’ ve found. Whilst there are o...

  PE…Teaches Skills for Life Coherence and progression within the PE learning journey should be carefully considered to ensure that the physical skills are developed alongside the necessary knowledge so that children can know more and do more. Getting this right from the offset is essential for not only building the foundations for children to improve, but for them to take ownership of their own development journey too. Clearly communicating learning objectives (detailing the skills and knowledge) whilst fostering a collaborative learning environment, has the potential to unlock a platform for developing a whole wealth of other skills such as communication, problem solving and empathy alongside physical fitness. We are now seeing more and more of our education and sports specialists actively planning for and delivering PE in such a way that it purposefully teaches skills that are not just taught, develope d and built upon as part of the PE lesson, but skills that are transfer...