The June edition of the Human Kinetics UKPE Newsletter has just been published and features the following:

Categories: PE, Primary PE, Resources, Sport, physical activity

Wim Chalmet at Golspie High School has been doing some great work introducing alternative activities in PE. I am really impressed with how he is taking mountain biking forward. The video below shows some of the highlights thus far.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GMq-qMfvNo

Categories: Cycling, Mountain Biking, PE, Sport, physical activity

Cycling Scotland recently launched the Cycle Friendly schools award for primary schools. The aim of the new scheme is to encourage cycling as part of the whole school culture and contribute to increasing the number of children cycling to and at school. The Award is part of a whole school approach to cycling which can contribute to health promoting school and Eco-School initiatives. Additionally, the scheme links directly with cycle training that is offered at school in particular the Scottish Cycle Training Scheme and Cycling Scotland’s Ready Steady Bike and Go ByCycle programmes.

Categories: Cycling, Primary PE, Resources, physical activity

Fit for Girls is a national programme aimed at encouraging schoolgirls aged 11-16 years to adopt more active lifestyles. The programme is funded through the Scottish Government and Sportscotland, in partnership with the Youth Sport Trust.

The programme requires a Development Manager who will take responsibility for leading the implementation of this programme in local authorities across Scotland.

For an application pack, please visit the website www.sportscotland.org.uk/jobs or telephone 0131 472 3333. Closing date for completed applications: Monday 9 June 2008

Categories: Girls PE, PE, Sport, physical activity

Human Kinetics UKPE April Newsletter contains some interesting articles and references to resources summary below

· International Dance Day discount!

· Help your pupils learn essential social skills through character-building activities

· Achieve maximum fun and fitness in PE lessons with new physical education resource

· Parents ‘too scared to let children play outside’

· £5.5m plan to inspire new generation of Billy Elliots in schools

· Obese children to die younger than parents

· Labour’s 187 broken promises on playing field sales

· Heart disease risk ‘increases for children who are inactive’

· School-gate fast food ban urged

· More children are watching junk-food adverts despite ban

There is also lots of lots of interesting reading and resources identified in the April FitNews the April Academic News the May FitNews and the May Academic News. Happy reading

Categories: PE, Research, Resources, Sport, physical activity

In the first video Estelle Morris meets Sue Campbell, who has been given the task of completely reinvigorating British sport, to discuss the importance of sport to school children. http://www.teachers.tv/video/26185

The second video looks at how a primary school teacher has introduced Yoga into her teaching. http://www.teachers.tv/video/26328

Categories: PE, Primary PE, Resources, Sport, physical activity

The Youth Sport Trust and sportscotland are looking to recruit 5 part-time Trainers from across Scotland to join the Fit for Girls working team. The overall aim of the Trainers is to deliver the Fit for Girls training programme to every secondary school community in the country.

Approximately 26 training sessions will be delivered per trainer September 2008 – June 2010 @£250 per training session + travel (self-employed, casual and secondment contracts considered)

The Fit for Girls Programme aims to give girls and young women opportunities and choices to achieve the social, psychological and physical benefits possible through physical activity. It achieves this through providing practitioners with the tools and skills to be able to successfully consult plan and implement sustainable extra curricular programmes for girls as well as creating better links with and enhancing existing curricular activity.

Training is expected to be rolled out over the next two years starting from 1st September 2008. With mentoring and induction sessions to be arranged for successful Trainers during August 2008.

If you have extensive working knowledge of current practice in PE and Active Schools, excellent facilitation, presentation and communication skills are self motivated and reliable we would like to hear from you.

The closing date for applications is 25th April 2008 and interviews will be held w/c 5 May 2008.

For an informal chat please contact Hazel Williamson on hazel.williamson@youthsporttrust.org

Application pack and further details can be downloaded from the Youth Sport Trust website. Should you have any problems obtaining information please contact:

Youth Sport Trust, Human Resources on

01509 226608 or email jobs@youthsporttrust.org

Categories: Girls PE, PE

4th Roehampton Primary physical education conference http://www.roehampton.ac.uk/primaryphysicaleducationconf/index.html‘Health and Inclusion: Providing a high quality experience for all’Friday 25th April 2008 10:00AM - 4:00PM Froebel College Roehampton University London

Categories: CPD, Conference, PE, Primary PE, physical activity

Just came across this post the UKPE Newsletter on the on the Human Kinetics Blog http://humankinetics.wordpress.com/ It contains a number of interesting articles including:

· Product of the month…

· Use change, challenge and choice to maximise participation in physical activity

· A marathon challenge for staff at Human Kinetics

· Schools make children more obese, leading doctor says

· Obesity ‘in the genes’

· Eighty-nine new specialist schools announced

· Teachers engaged in CPD reaches 200,000

· Swimming pool closures are national disgrace

· Netball’s ten year game plan

Categories: PE, Resources, physical activity

In a recent post about Higher and Int 2 resources I alluded to the Banchory PE wiki and the possibility of sharing resources by creating a PE swap shop. Well Lorna, Scott and Barry three teachers working in Scottish schools have taken it upon themselves to develop a wiki to share PE resources http://pe-resources.wikispaces.com/ Obviously Banchory Academy has willingly contributed to this resource but here is my challenge will you do likewise. We have the chance to create something unique to benefit us all. If you have something to contribute to the site email it to pe-resources@hotmail.com Lets go for it and build an incredible online resource for everyone.

Categories: Higher, ICT in PE, Int2, PE, Resources, Standard Grade, Wiki