According to OFSTED primary schools may need to consult local mosques and involve families in their efforts to get all children in England swimming. Although most 11-year-olds did now reached the target of 25 metres some groups of pupils were missing out, including ethnic minorities with little experience of swimming. In a quarter of the [...]

A £100m campaign to give every child the chance of five hours of sport every week was announced by the Prime Minister, Gordon Brown on Friday. He called for a ‘united team effort’ in the run up to 2012 to make sport a part of every child’s day to build a greater sporting nation and [...]

Mark Lupton has written an interesting article for the Guardian on how sports have helped improve the SATs results in St Leonard’s primary school, Lancashire.  It’s an interesting article, and certainly one that you may want to read if you’re thinking about how your playground could be used to it’s full potential.  The headteacher finishes [...]

Today I managed to sign our school up to a free trial of Bikeability.  Bikeability is a brand new national cycling award scheme for Years 5 and 6 which before long will have thousands of children whizzing about on their bikes and pedalling their way to success. Bikeability is ‘Cycling Proficiency’ for the 21st century designed [...]

A £494,000 scheme will be giving over 45,000 pedometers to those children who attend 250 primary schools in deprived areas of England in an attempt to tackle the obesity problem.  A special website has also to be setup that will chart their progress and sets targets for their number of steps. A scheme in 50 [...]

I’ve been noticing on playground duty recently the lack of games the children seem to play.  There’s always the obligatory football and netball match going on and a few chasing games, but other than that not much.  There also seems to be an increasing number of children who just stand around bored or walk around [...]

Lazy Town is a CBBC programme which encourages children to eat healthy and keep fit.  After a suggestion for Julie I had a look at the Sportacus workout.   Julie commented on the Dame Kelly post that: “My Y6 class are going mad for the Sportacus workout!!! The other night during Book Club we went into [...]

I found more World Cup resources in my pigeon hole today in the form of the Teacher magazine.  The resources are also available on the internet via the teachernet website.  What isn’t included on the internet is a large A1 World Cup poster.  The poster has each of the World Cup countries located with a [...]