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The following articles, taken from recent issues of our Optimus newsletters, will prove invaluable for anyone with a professional or personal interest in PE and Sport. To ensure you stay up-to-date with the very latest thinking in this area, please make use of the articles below. If you can’t find what you’re looking for here, simply click on another category on the left or 'search the library'.
Innovative teaching of PE and sport | PE and SportAngela Youngman looks at some innovative ideas to get children moving Young athletes: identifying and nurturing sporting talent | PE and SportWhat turns a competent athlete or 'player' into an exceptional performer? Crispin Andrews considers the make-up of this type of talent and highlights some issues for schools The benefits of skiing trips - at home and abroad | PE and SportLisa Symonds looks at the benefits that skiing can offer schools and provides some tips on arranging a school skiing trip Inspirational athlete - Sonia O'Sullivan | PE and SportTina Ryan meets Sonia O’Sullivan – Ireland’s middle distance runner and most crowned sportswoman Sport and equality - South Africa | PE and SportFifteen years ago South Africa was allowed back into world sport. The reborn sporting nation has had remarkable national team success and has hosted major sports events – but is it being matched by integration? Chris Green reports Boxing in schools - an anti-bullying scheme | PE and SportRob Bowden looks at how boxercise classes and boxing clubs in schools are being used to improve fitness and behaviour as well as tackle bullying and racism Activities to develop gross motor skills | PE and SportGross motor skills are the movements of the large muscles of the body. These activities will help to develop and improve gross motor skills. Self-evaluation and PE | PE and SportPenny Cottee offers some top tips on self-evaluation and the teaching of school sport Key concepts: the new secondary PE curriculum | PE and SportCrichton Casbon, curriculum adviser for PE at the QCA, explains the new PE curriculum changes to Penny Cottee Delivering dance in primary schools | PE and SportDance specialist and SSCo Kim Spiller offers advice to primary teachers about delivering high-quality dance Teacher training for primary PE specialists | PE and SportPE and Sport Today talks to primary link teacher Lorraine Livingstone who, despite the inadequacies of PE training for primary teachers, has become something of a specialist Providing quality PE in primary schools | PE and SportCrispin Andrews talks to assistant headteacher Karen Collinswood about the role of school leadership in developing high-quality PE in primary schools Boxing comes back into schools | PE and SportTina Ryan explores the reinvention of boxing as a school sport Young sporting ambassadors | PE and SportIn the countdown to 2012, the Young Ambassadors programme is striving to ensure the much-vaunted legacy of the London Olympics becomes a reality Argument for a truly physical education | PE and SportAndrew Cushing argues the case for a new programme of physical education in schools Inspirational people: Abebe Bikila, long distance runner | PE and SportInspirational people: PE and Sport magazine looks at the legendary Abebe Bikila, the first of the great Ethiopian distance runners, who won back-to-back gold medals in the 1960 and 1964 Olympic Games Physical support in games and PE | PE and SportKris Lines surveys this highly litigated area — and suggests a step-by-step approach to safety within the law Sports equipment: action to avoid negligence claims | PE and SportSetting out and packing away heavy equipment can be dangerous. Kris Lines sets out safety precautions that will minimise the risks to pupils and staff The 'fitness and wellbeing' MOT | PE and SportFred Redwood reports on a fitness profiling computer system for schools and colleges How schools are supporting sporting talent | PE and SportNeil Short reports on the result of a small survey into sports provision in schools. Schools and the 2012 Olympics | PE and SportWhat are the potential benefits to young people and how are schools preparing? Richard Bailey looks into the future. Long-term learning development | PE and SportThe Deanes School is a specialist sports college in Benfleet, Essex, where for a number of years staff have been working on G&T programmes based on provision beyond the curriculum, writes G&T coordinator Keli Hampstead Participation in sport on the increase | PE and SportSchool sport partnerships are continuing to be successful in increasing the amount of time pupils spend taking part in PE and sport. The gifted and talented in PE | PE and SportG&T coordinator Samantha Wilkinson of King's Wood School, Essex, explains how she has developed a PE programme for gifted and talented students Most Related:
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