Title: Physical Education: The Missing Ingredient in Schools
1- Physical Education The Missing Ingredient in
Schools - Len Almond
- BHF National Centre for Physical Activity and
Health - Glasgow December 2007
2Presentation Outline
- Scottish Perspective the starting point
- Guidelines
- Missing Ingredients
- Challenges
3Curriculum for Excellence
- Building the Curriculum 2
- active learning in the early years
- Spontaneous play
- Planned purposeful play
- Investigating and exploring
- Events and life experiences
- Focused teaching and learning
4Curriculum for Excellence Health Well-being
- Health and wellbeing includes experiences and
outcomes for personal and social development,
understanding of health, physical education and
physical activity and elements of home economics.
5Refocusing the Prevention Agenda
6Physical Activity and Health Children
- Prevention
- Obesity
- Multiple Metabolic Syndrome
- Osteoporosis
- Emotional ill-health
- Management
- Asthma
- Emotional well-being
- Functioning Disorders (tiredness, sleep problems,
anxiety)
7What has this got to do with PE?
- Energising lives
- Enriching lives
- Widening perspectives
- Widening capability
- Reaching all young people
- Personal Achievement
- Being a good person
8Schools have too many agendas
9Physical activity and public health- the
prescription Young people
- All young people should do at least 60 minutes of
physical activity each day - Just 4 of a day
- Young and Active 1998
10HBSC Scotland Survey 2002
- BOYS
- 11 year olds 54.6
- 13 year olds 46.3
- 15 year olds 31.4
- Girls
- 11 year olds 41.1
- 13 year olds 28.2
- 15 year olds 22.3
11U.S. activity guidelines for the under 5s
12Physical Activity Guidelines NASPE 2004
- Children should accumulate at least 60 minutes,
and up to several hours, of age appropriate
physical activity on all, or most days of the
week. - Children participate in several bouts of physical
activity lasting 15 minutes or more each day. - Children should participate each day in a variety
of age-appropriate physical activities designed
to achieve optimal health, wellness, fitness and
performance benefits. - Extended periods (periods of two hours or more)
of inactivity are discouraged for children,
especially during the daytime hours.
13Guidelines Drawing up Priorities
- 60 Minutes of moderate to vigorous physical
activity every day. - Experience longer bouts of physical activity
- Experience vigorous exercise
- Reduce extensive periods
- of sitting
14Challenge to all Primary Schools How many
children in your school can run for
- One minute
- Two minutes
- Three minutes
- Four minutes
- Five minutes
- without stopping?
15The Health benefits of walking to
schoolMackett,R.L. et all Centre for Transport
Studies, University College, London
- Boys are more active girls
- Older children more active than younger ones
- Year 8 use more calories walking that year 6
- Children are less active at weekends/holidays
- Differences increase with age
- Older children (year 8) use more calories walking
to school that in 2 hours of PE in a week
16Activity at Weekends
17Sitting watching a screenHBSC Survey 2001-2
- Weekdays 1/3rd Boys and Girls spend 4 hours
(17) in front of a screen in the evening - Weekends a similar pattern
18This brings me to Pedagogybecause we are too
CONTENT focused
19Pedagogy
- Pedagogy in Practice no PE
- Building Schools for the Future
- Personalised Learning Agenda
- Information Technology
- Early Years training social pedagogy
- 2020 Vision
20Pedagogy the art and science of engaging pupils
for productive learningLen Almond 2007
21Pedagogical Skills
- Case study of co-operating teachers to over-turn
OFSTED. - They demonstrated that these skills can be learned
22To raise Participation levels teachers need to
- Reach out and connect with young people
particularly those who are sedentary and
underserved. - Engage them productively, enthusiastically and in
a caring environment. - Draw Out keep them interested and wanting more.
- Stretch extend them
- Generate a longer term commitment to sport,
dance and any form of physical activity.
23BrandChild
- In the UK teenagers spend 60 more time watching
TV each year that time in school. - This generation is 24/7 generation.
- Teenagers want their lives to be interactive and
instant. - Boys are more driven by mastery than girls.
- Winner takes all competitive model is no longer
what it is all about. - Teenagers main source of inspiration is their
peers. - Teenagers want to be listened to, heard and
understood. - Involve teenagers in your plans, their feedback
is one of your most effective tools. - Teenagers will try anything but are incredibly
impatient. - Dont talk down to teenagers
24VOICE
- A sense of belonging and inclusion, especially
for pupils who feel marginalised. - Developing a sense of responsibility and being
involved in implementing decisions. - Feeling respected and listened to in school,
as individuals and as a group. - Pupils can contribute to making the school a
better place to learn.
25Challenges to you
26First Challenge
- Recognise the importance of Pedagogy to make your
practice much better. - Give young people a Voice in your school
27Another Challenge
- Responsibility for
- Learning
- Actions and behaviour
- Independence
- What does your department do to promote these two
crucial features of education?
28Aspirations for All Young People
29Well-being
30Healthy School Physical Activity Tool Kit
- http//www.healthyschools.gov.uk/Uploads/Users/Nat
ional20Co-ordinators/nationaluser1!/HS20PA20DOC
20A.pdf -
- http//www.healthyschools.gov.uk/Uploads/Users/Nat
ional20Co-ordinators/nationaluser1!/HS20PA20DOC
20B.pdf
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33Thank You
With your help we can increase
participation rates of all young people
YOU REALLY CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE
34Contact
- Len Almond
- Foundation Director
- BHF National Centre for Physical Activity and
Health - Website www.bhfactive.org.uk
- Tel 01509 611473
- Emaillen.almond_at_btinternet.com
35Percentage young people meeting MVPA guidelines
on physical activity, HBSC, 2001-02
- BOYS
- 11 year olds 53.3
- 13 year olds 52.1
- 15 year olds 47.8
- Girls
- 11 year olds 37.5
- 13 year olds 31.4
- 15 year olds 28.8