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Rugby World Cup Teaching Ideas and Resources
Looking for ideas and resources that are linked to the Rugby World Cup? Save time by looking at our list of great educational material!

Competition – Spirit of Cricket
Find out about a KS2 competition which might result in your pupils being able to play cricket on the outfield at Lord’s during a Test match!
BBC Audio Resources
The BBC have a huge collection of audio resources for primary schools on their School Radio pages. These include: Dance and PE Workshops, Music activities and audio clips to use in lessons, Collective Worship resources, History audio clips and more… www.bbc.co.uk/schoolradio Accompanying teachers resources are online and many of the audio programmes are available as [...]
Coaching for Life
BT has launched Coaching for Life, a free online programme designed to help parents, grandparents, carers and older siblings improve their coaching skills for 6 – 11 year olds through a series of new children’s games. The site has variations on popular games online (with downloadable and video instructions) which teachers, parents and carers can use [...]
This week’s Education News (17/7/10)
Here is another collection of links to the latest education news stories: SATs for 11 year olds have too high a margin of error to be used to compare schools in league tables, according to the NUT and ATL, who have urged the government to scrap the tests for Year 6 pupils. The leader of [...]
ICT Goodies
ICT Goodies is a free resources sharing community setup and run by teachers. The creator of the site, Andrew Clarke, strongly believes in a culture of sharing good practice. He says: “If I’ve created some great resources that the kids have enjoyed working with and have clearly made good progress, why would I want to [...]

Favourite World Cup Resource sites
The World Cup has now started and lots of schools are using the event as a starting point for their lessons. Here are links to a selection of my favourite World Cup resource sites: Teaching Ideas – This is my own collection of lesson ideas, resources, display material, videos, links and more, which also includes [...]
Quadkids Athletics
QuadKids is a new athletics concept designed to give more children the opportunity to participate in and enjoy the benefits of track & field athletics and also to identify the stars of tomorrow. The scheme aims to be inclusive, competitive, quick, fun and simple to run. It is a team based quadrathlon competition where each [...]

Encourage competitive sports in schools says Brown
Finally Gordon Brown has done something that I think is good – he has said that competitive sports will become the norm in all schools again. He said: “We want to encourage competitive sports in schools, not the ‘medals for all’ culture we have seen in previous years. It was wrong because it doesn’t work. [...]






