PE

The Year 7 students are dwarfed by the 10 foot high wooden wall. Those at the bottom are heaving and shoving their classmates upwards, while others haul from above. There's a real sense of camaraderie.

The stories here show just some of the ways that schools involved in the PESS investigation have used PESS to improve behaviour and attitudes to learning. PESS stands for Physical Education and School Sport - all of the content from this resource is illustrative of the way that one important curriculum area (PE and Sport) can have a positive and dramatic influence on the attitude of young people...

Teachers TV Resource: Sue Cowley visits Baz Barrett, a Year 3 teacher in Birmingham, to offer advice on controlling behaviour when taking pupils out of the classroom environment.

PESS (Physical Education and School Sport) detail a range of curriculum initiatives on the QCA website undertaken by schools to improve pupil behaviour, self-esteem and motivation through the PE curriculum.

PESS (Physical Education and School Sport) detail a range of curriculum initiatives on the QCA website undertaken by schools to improve pupil behaviour, self-esteem and motivation through the PE curriculum.

Our agreed partnership approach was to improve pupils’ behaviour, especially at lunchtimes. We also wanted to increase the number of pupils involved in at least two hours’ high quality PE and sport each week.

As a partnership, we agreed to focus on increasing the amount of time that pupils spent taking part in PE and school sport. We also wanted to tackle their behaviour and attitudes to learning.

Meeting the needs of pupils with SEN on the sports field and in the gym or swimming pool can be very challenging for non-specialist teachers-they need help. This book describes strategies which are practical and effective in mainstream settings.

This case study details the innovatory work at Bentley Drive Junior School who have developed an ethos of physical well-being across the school.