PE: More Than Sport

In just 12 months, sport for children worldwide has changed beyond all recognition.

At our school, a standard term two would bring a packed ECA schedule, house events, overseas trips, local competition and all the incredible learning experiences and excitement that comes with such opportunities. Coaches, students and parents would be connecting, collaborating and supporting one another through various sports and activities, all whilst losing our voices cheering on KLASS Lions!

We are some way from returning to the opportunities we took for granted and for now, extracurricular sport is limited to strict SOPs, computer screens and individual skill progressions. While we look forward to returning to a packed calendar of competitive sport, the forced break has given PE teachers around the world the chance to think about the relationship between school sport and our curriculum subject ‘Physical Education’.

Blurred Lines

We know sport has been a part of school life for centuries, with the first-ever competitive school football match reportedly taking place in the UK on 9 December 1834 between Eton and Harrow.

Most rules in sports are universally agreed and understood by those who participate, (apart from VAR in Football but that’s for another time) yet ‘Physical Education’ as a term is used to describe a myriad of different experiences and activities that form two to three hours of a schoolchildren’s weekly timetable.