Despite the rhetoric surrounding the Olympic legacy and various campaigns to support good quality sport provision in school, the last few years have been particularly difficult for those responsible for delivering PE.
The abolition of the School Sport Partnerships (SSPs), growing financial constraints and increasing demands from Ofsted focused on the core subjects, have all unfortunately led to the sidelining of PE and sport in many schools.
As a former PE teacher and manager of the SSP in Barnsley, I know that effective PE needs a level of expertise, training and specialism that goes far beyond that which is given as part of standard teacher training. Yet teachers tasked with delivering sport in school often have to try to manage with a combination of knowledge picked up during initial teacher training and their personal experiences of PE during their own school days.
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