Now, I wholly accept there are far more organic, adventurous and exciting ways to build and maintain fitness and health than going to the gym. Fell-running, rock-climbing and free-running are…
Continue Reading "Seven Good Reasons for a Gym Life" Categories Big PictureEvery four years (five in this last cycle), we are universally blessed with the global enormity of the Olympic Games. It’s almost impossible to watch the Olympic Games and to…
Continue Reading "Olympian Values" Categories Big PictureMost kids don’t love school. Most kids do love PE and Games. Give kids a reason to love school. Give kids more PE and Games. I have taught and led…
Continue Reading "Loving School" Categories School ChatIn my early years as a PE teacher, I found a great book by Dom Hellison called Teaching Responsibility Through Physical Activity. Over the years, this book has supported my…
Continue Reading "Polarised" Categories Big PicturePublished in the Physical Education Matters magazine. AfPE. Autumn 2020. At the age of five, one in five children are overweight or obese. By the last year of primary school,…
Continue Reading "Building Physical Health" Categories Big PicturePublished as a letter to the editor in the Times on Jul 27, 2020. Sir, I welcome the proposed restrictions on junk food advertising (“Junk food adverts to be banned…
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