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Student Leadership and ES Sports Day
P1090788 by Paul O CC BY Spring is in the air, the Cherry Blossoms are poised to burst into bloom and so our Elementary Sports Day looms close. Last year I blogged about Sports Day ideas with Doug Gleddie and I wanted to share what we are hoping to do this year as part of a two or three year plan for evolving our ES Sports Day. We evaluated our plan and day from last year. We felt that although the students had a lot of fun, the day needed to align more closely with our philosophy of PE at YIS. Now we don’t have a written down statement but the sentiment is that…
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PE Minutes – Survey Results
PE Minutes are precious and I haven’t met a Physed Teacher who wouldn’t like to have more of them each day or week or month with their students. A few weeks ago I asked the PE community online to share the number of classes and the minutes/week they had in their PE classes from Early Learning to Grade 12. In the Gallery above, you can see the results of the survey. Now, the sample size isn’t huge, with some emails and Twitter sharing I had about 30 people respond for themselves or their departments. I would like to share these results to let others think about what their PE…
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Track and Field Ramblings – New Age of PE and T&F days!
InfraRed Running Sculpture by Vincent_AF CC BY NC My friend @doug_gleddie and I recently had a wee Twitter flurry focused on alternate track and field events/days. After our short exchange of ideas, we decided to collaborate on this blog post to highlight our perspectives and thoughts. Take a read, tell us what you think and, most importantly, please contribute to the google doc we have started to share your ideas as well (link at the end of the article)! Doug’s Ramblings! I started teaching PE at a school that followed a very traditional program and T&F was run as a school wide meet. When I took over as the male…