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I’m very much looking forward to facilitating ‘relearn Team Sports’ with Ric Shuttleworth from next month onwards. Whilst I expect many of the challenges and curiosities people bring will relate to on-field practice and learning design, there is an…
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I have been following Carol Black’s writing and thoughts for the last couple of years…I would like to say with enjoyment but in reality she often leaves me feeling jarred and unsettled.
“It’s the wrong trousers, Gromit, and they’ve gone wrong!”
In the animated movie ‘The Wrong Trousers’, hapless inventor Wallace and his long-suffering dog Gromit discover that a well-meaning technological…
Just outside my office is the PE notice board. It is a blue felt board which is used for multiple purposes; fixture lists, principles of play, team sheets, games groups and PE rotations. It brings children from every year together, to talk about PE and school sport. A…
In Complexity Thinking in PE, Richard Tinning and Anthony Rossi write ‘In the face of messy, unruly, boisterous classes of school children and the expectation to deliver predictable, explicit, educational outcomes, teachers of physical education are likely to reduce complexity and have their pedagogy…
Amongst a long and enjoyable conversation with a colleague involved in rugby last week, there was a somewhat sobering moment. He intimated his love for the game, evident since early childhood, had eroded to the point he didn’t really enjoy watching the game…
Homeric Hymn to Hephaestus (Greek epic C7th to 4th B.C.) : “Sing, clear-voiced Mousa (Muse), of Hephaistos (Hephaestus) famed for inventions (klytometis). With bright-eyed Athene he taught men glorious crafts throughout the world,–men who before used to dwell caves in the mountains like wild beasts. But…
Without any warning, I started to well-up. As Hawkeye confirmed the ball had comfortably caught the sideline, Roger Federer secured his 18th grand slam title and his face lit up with a smile synonymous with a young child. His emotion was…
(a slightly amended version of this article was first published in 2015 in issues five & six of the Player Development Project magazine)
In the backyard of an Australian home, a young boy tries to chip a football over a small…
