SCHOOL REPORT PHYSICAL EDUCATION

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SCHOOL REPORT PHYSICAL EDUCATION

• PROMISING
• Clearer articulation at national level of policy
  agenda Manifesto, positioning.
• BUT significant funding for HQPE not yet secured
• Not all SSCs demonstrate HQPE.

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COULD DO BETTER Ofsted long report 2009

• aspects of provision that are still relatively
  weak, such as assessing and tracking pupils
  progress, and the lack of procedures to monitor
  and evaluate provision systematically.
• the continuity of learning experiences for
  young people within and between schools,
  identifying this as an area for development in
  the majority of the schools visited.

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Ofsted 2009 contd

• The overall quality of teaching was good or
  outstanding in two thirds of the schools visited,
  although it was more variable in the primary
  schools. The subject knowledge of primary
  teachers was less secure than that of secondary
  teachers, often because they had entered the
  profession inadequately prepared to teach the
  full range of physical education activities and
  this had not been fully compensated for by
  professional development.

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PHYSICAL EDUCATION

• We are better at articulating purpose, and what
  we do
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• Do we really understand and embrace
• essence of physical education?

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RECENT EVENTS

• afPE Spring Lectures Baroness Estelle Morris
  and Professor David Hargreaves
• afPE Research Seminar on Equity and Physical
  Education
• Westminster Conference on Child Health.
• 3 VERY DIFFERENT STATEMENTS, FROM 3 VERY
  DIFFERENT PEOPLE AND STANDPOINTS

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CRICHTON CASBON, QCAEquity Physical Education,
May 2009 - afPE Research Seminar

• (with ref to Primary Curriculum Review)
• Attainment in physical education is currently
  too narrow.
• Claimed outcomes must come through pedagogy
  rather than curriculum frameworks
• the key processes lack coherence and
  distinctiveness. afPE interpretation will be
  crucial.

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BARONESS ESTELLE MORRISafPE Spring Lecture,
April 2009

• Teaching is not a very evidence-based profession
  in physical education, there seems to be
  little evidence of pedagogy changing practice
• Physical education seems to be being left out of
  the school improvement agenda it needs to
  include itself.