May 2008 Archive News:

afPE Health & Safety Update - May 2008
22/05/08

Glen Beaumont (afPE Health & Safety Officer) looks at Parkour/Free Running and Athletics in this months update.

If you are a member of afPE then you can download the May 2008 Health & Safety update from the members' area. Should you wish to be reminded of your password, please contact simon.leach@afpe.org.uk  

afPE comments on Scottish targets for physical education
22/05/08

Once upon a time in West Yorkshire, in the days when Britain had a mining industry and schools had regular sport on the curriculum, the issues for physical education teachers were simple and practical.

As a young Physical Education teacher Margaret Talbot recalls: "When the wind blew smoke from the local coking plant in the wrong direction, you'd to bring the pupils in. Sometimes you couldn't see the kids you were teaching, and got horrible grit between your teeth. Once, through the billow-ing, murky clouds, I saw a bull on the pitch. I was able to usher the kids indoors, and the local farmer came to corall the animal."

Now Professor Talbot, she faces issues less dramatically in her face, but is trying to stop the charging bull of an education system which undervalues Physical Education teachers and is cavalier with pupils' future.

Click HERE for the full article courtesy of The Scottish Herald.

It is said that the Battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton. But could the wars of the future be won in less salubrious surroundings – a Salford community college? A secondary modern in Kent? A city academy? If ministers have their way, the cadet corps could soon become a big part of state school tradition.

Click HERE for the full article courtesy of The Independent.

afPE Evidence for Primary Review
02/05/08

afPE have assembled an official response to the Primary Review consultation.

Click HERE to view a copy.