Performance

How video analysis helps secondary school students develop

Feb 7, 2023 | Teaching PE | 0 |

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Video analysis has the potential to assist secondary school students with their development, both physically and mentally. How exactly can it help and why?

Secondary school students will fall into a learning development category as either a:

Cognitive learner (Beginner)
Associate learner (Developing)
Autonomous learner (Expert)

Certain performers won’t benefit from video analysis because their skills have already reached a level where there are no errors. Therefore, they perform skills repeatedly until fluent kinesthesis is acquired. However, those who are developing can use video analysis to their advantage to help enhance their sporting capabilities.

Current challenges in PE lessons today and how to overcome them

Aug 10, 2022 | Teaching PE | 0 |

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PE teaching can sometimes feel like the most rewarding yet most challenging role around. Constantly having to adapt to meet the needs of the students and overcome barriers to participation are par for the course. So what are the biggest challenges in a PE lesson, and how could we overcome them?

Fitness and engagement

The first issue you may find is that some of your pupils aren’t physically able to take part in lessons due to low fitness or ability levels. Some pupils may also be reluctant to take part in PE lessons due to concerns over their fitness levels, feelings of embarrassment or a lack of confidence.

The importance and benefits of a defibrillator for a pe department

Aug 10, 2022 | Fitness & Health | 0 |

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With the recent announcement that every state school in the UK will have a defibrillator by the end of the 2022/23 school year, we look at the importance and benefits of having these life-saving pieces of technology located within easy reach of the P.E. department.

According to the British Heart Foundation, there are over 30,000 hospital cardiac arrests (OHCAs) in the UK each year. Unfortunately, the chances of survival are extremely low- just 1 in 10 people in the UK survive an OHCA. One of the main contributory factors to this disappointing figure is the time taken to begin treatment of the casualty.

AEDs (Automated External Defibrillators) are used in addition to CPR to increase the chances of survival after a cardiac arrest.

Top 5 Tips to Boost Performance in PE

Feb 23, 2022 | Teaching PE | 0 |

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When teaching PE, it can be difficult to make sure that your students are getting the most out of their lessons and are improving their abilities at a proper rate. Here’s our top 5 tips on how to boost performance in PE.

Why performance analysis is important for development in sport

Aug 4, 2021 | Coaching & Skills | 0 |

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Performance analysis can increase performance and allow professionals to perform to the best of their abilities.

What is resilience in PE?

Jan 11, 2019 | Coaching & Skills | 0 |

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PE not only helps to encourage pupils to lead healthy lifestyles and enjoy participating in sports, it can also help to develop key life skills.

Such skills include confidence, teamwork, and working towards objectives and goals.

Coaching for competitions

Jan 4, 2019 | Coaching & Skills, Teaching PE | 0 |

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When you are coaching athletes to participate in competitions, there is much more involved than simply working on improving their performance.

Depending on the sport and the type of competition, there will be a wide range of other factors that you will need to consider as coach.

5 training tips…to help prepare for a marathon

Jul 13, 2018 | Coaching & Skills, Individual Sports | 0 |

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Whilst preparing for a marathon, thorough and effective training is required for maximum performance and to avoid injury. Marathons require serious stamina and a steady pace.

How running 400m regularly can benefit your 100m times

Feb 20, 2018 | Individual Sports, Coaching & Skills | 0 |

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If you try to simply sprint for the finish line when you’re running the 100m, you’ll never reach your full potential. To get the best time takes more than running flat out; a combination of speed, endurance and impeccable technique produce the best results.

Therefore when you’re coaching athletes to run this shortest sprint, it can be beneficial to add in some other distances too such as the 400m.

Video Analysis in Sport

Jun 2, 2015 | Teaching PE | 0 |

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Technology has developed over the years, with video cameras being more advanced, iPads being used to analyse sport and even phones now being used to analyse performance.

Track and Field Conditioning

Apr 28, 2015 | Coaching & Skills, Individual Sports | 0 |

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Athletics as a sport is all about being the best in a given discipline; who can sprint the quickest, who can run a best distance in the fastest time, who can jump the furthest or who can throw the longest distance.

This is why training strategies such as strength conditioning plays such a huge part, especially to elite athletes who are trying to break world records and win medals. Strength and conditioning coaches will work alongside the athlete’s other coaches to calculate and form a precise training schedule to meet the needs of the sport.

Gymnastics

Apr 7, 2015 | Fitness & Health, Individual Sports | 0 |

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British Gymnastics is currently seeing a purple patch with medals for both males and Females, such as Beth Tweddle, Louis Smith MBE & Max Whitlock winning numerous medals over recent years.

Rhythmic gymnastics is a female only competition in the Olympics and the athletes can be 16 years old when competing at the highest level.

Attainment in the New National Curriculum

Mar 26, 2015 | Teaching PE | 0 |

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Attainment: the action or fact of achieving a goal towards which one has worked. The Oxford English Dictionary.

Attainment is used in an educational process to show the students the levels they are working at and towards; a student getting a C at Christmas with their target grade being a B, for example. All forms of education, from year one to degree classification, have some form of attainment level system which allows people to strive to achieve their best.

Demonstrating Improvement in Sports

Oct 23, 2014 | Teaching PE | 0 |

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In previous blog posts we have looked into a wide range of activities to help increase participation and develop your pupils’ confidence to get involved. Although your pupils may be making some good improvement in the sports and activities they are taking part in, sometimes they may not see their development. It is beneficial to you to point it out to them, because if you don’t they may lose all interest in the sport.

Competitive Sports – is it a good thing to have winners and losers?

Oct 13, 2014 | Teaching PE | 0 |

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With the changes to the PE National Curriculum and the call to end “the damaging prizes for all culture”, it has to be asked – is it a good thing to have winners and losers? And what are we actually teaching children either by giving them all prizes, or by separating them based on skills into winners and losers?

Taking Part in Competitive Sports

Sep 16, 2014 | Coaching & Skills, Teaching PE | 0 |

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Sports are by nature competitive and there will be a time where you have to turn from training and non-competitive activities to competition.

There are a few important things that you have to remember when putting your students into competitive situations.

Tackling Demanding Activities

Sep 10, 2014 | Coaching & Skills, Teaching PE | 0 |

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There will be some sporting and physical activities that your students find challenging. It is your job to tackle their doubts and overcome any fears they may have before partaking in particularly difficult sports.

Overcoming Barriers

Sep 4, 2014 | Coaching & Skills, Teaching PE | 0 |

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You will face many intellectual and physical challenges that your students have to overcome. These could be from disabilities or lack of sporting acumen. Either way, you will have to focus on making your activities accessible to all.

Developing Competence in Sport

Aug 28, 2014 | Coaching & Skills, Teaching PE | 0 |

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Being competent in your given sport is essential if you are to succeed. With competence brings confidence, and with both of these factors on your side, you will be ready to achieve your goals.