Physical Education: The Missing Ingredient in Schools

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• Physical Education The Missing Ingredient in
  Schools
• Len Almond
• BHF National Centre for Physical Activity and
  Health
• Glasgow December 2007

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Presentation Outline

• Scottish Perspective the starting point
• Guidelines
• Missing Ingredients
• Challenges

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Curriculum for Excellence

• Building the Curriculum 2
• active learning in the early years
• Spontaneous play
• Planned purposeful play
• Investigating and exploring
• Events and life experiences
• Focused teaching and learning

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Curriculum for Excellence Health Well-being

• Health and wellbeing includes experiences and
  outcomes for personal and social development,
  understanding of health, physical education and
  physical activity and elements of home economics.

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Refocusing the Prevention Agenda
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Physical Activity and Health Children

• Prevention
• Obesity
• Multiple Metabolic Syndrome
• Osteoporosis
• Emotional ill-health
• Management
• Asthma
• Emotional well-being
• Functioning Disorders (tiredness, sleep problems,
  anxiety)

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What has this got to do with PE?

• Energising lives
• Enriching lives
• Widening perspectives
• Widening capability
• Reaching all young people
• Personal Achievement
• Being a good person

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Schools have too many agendas
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Physical activity and public health- the
prescription Young people

• All young people should do at least 60 minutes of
  physical activity each day
• Just 4 of a day
• Young and Active 1998

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HBSC Scotland Survey 2002

• BOYS
• 11 year olds 54.6
• 13 year olds 46.3
• 15 year olds 31.4

• Girls
• 11 year olds 41.1
• 13 year olds 28.2
• 15 year olds 22.3

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U.S. activity guidelines for the under 5s
 
 
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Physical Activity Guidelines NASPE 2004

• Children should accumulate at least 60 minutes,
  and up to several hours, of age appropriate
  physical activity on all, or most days of the
  week.
• Children participate in several bouts of physical
  activity lasting 15 minutes or more each day.
• Children should participate each day in a variety
  of age-appropriate physical activities designed
  to achieve optimal health, wellness, fitness and
  performance benefits.
• Extended periods (periods of two hours or more)
  of inactivity are discouraged for children,
  especially during the daytime hours.

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Guidelines Drawing up Priorities

• 60 Minutes of moderate to vigorous physical
  activity every day.
• Experience longer bouts of physical activity
• Experience vigorous exercise
• Reduce extensive periods
• of sitting

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Challenge to all Primary Schools How many
children in your school can run for

• One minute
• Two minutes
• Three minutes
• Four minutes
• Five minutes
• without stopping?

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The Health benefits of walking to
schoolMackett,R.L. et all Centre for Transport
Studies, University College, London

• Boys are more active girls
• Older children more active than younger ones
• Year 8 use more calories walking that year 6
• Children are less active at weekends/holidays
• Differences increase with age
• Older children (year 8) use more calories walking
  to school that in 2 hours of PE in a week

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Activity at Weekends
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Sitting watching a screenHBSC Survey 2001-2

• Weekdays 1/3rd Boys and Girls spend 4 hours
  (17) in front of a screen in the evening
• Weekends a similar pattern

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This brings me to Pedagogybecause we are too
CONTENT focused
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Pedagogy

• Pedagogy in Practice no PE
• Building Schools for the Future
• Personalised Learning Agenda
• Information Technology
• Early Years training social pedagogy
• 2020 Vision

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Pedagogy the art and science of engaging pupils
for productive learningLen Almond 2007
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Pedagogical Skills

• Case study of co-operating teachers to over-turn
  OFSTED.
• They demonstrated that these skills can be learned

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To raise Participation levels teachers need to

• Reach out and connect with young people
  particularly those who are sedentary and
  underserved.
• Engage them productively, enthusiastically and in
  a caring environment.
• Draw Out keep them interested and wanting more.
• Stretch extend them
• Generate a longer term commitment to sport,
  dance and any form of physical activity.

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BrandChild

• In the UK teenagers spend 60 more time watching
  TV each year that time in school.
• This generation is 24/7 generation.
• Teenagers want their lives to be interactive and
  instant.
• Boys are more driven by mastery than girls.
• Winner takes all competitive model is no longer
  what it is all about.
• Teenagers main source of inspiration is their
  peers.
• Teenagers want to be listened to, heard and
  understood.
• Involve teenagers in your plans, their feedback
  is one of your most effective tools.
• Teenagers will try anything but are incredibly
  impatient.
• Dont talk down to teenagers

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VOICE

• A sense of belonging and inclusion, especially
  for pupils who feel marginalised.
• Developing a sense of responsibility and being
  involved in implementing decisions.
• Feeling respected and listened to in school,
  as individuals and as a group.
• Pupils can contribute to making the school a
  better place to learn.

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Challenges to you
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First Challenge

• Recognise the importance of Pedagogy to make your
  practice much better.
• Give young people a Voice in your school

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Another Challenge

• Responsibility for
• Learning
• Actions and behaviour
• Independence
• What does your department do to promote these two
  crucial features of education?

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Aspirations for All Young People
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Well-being
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Healthy School Physical Activity Tool Kit

• http//www.healthyschools.gov.uk/Uploads/Users/Nat
  ional20Co-ordinators/nationaluser1!/HS20PA20DOC
  20A.pdf
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• http//www.healthyschools.gov.uk/Uploads/Users/Nat
  ional20Co-ordinators/nationaluser1!/HS20PA20DOC
  20B.pdf

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Thank You
With your help we can increase
participation rates of all young people
YOU REALLY CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE
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Contact

• Len Almond
• Foundation Director
• BHF National Centre for Physical Activity and
  Health
• Website www.bhfactive.org.uk
• Tel [phone]
• Emaillen.almond_at_btinternet.com

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Percentage young people meeting MVPA guidelines
on physical activity, HBSC, 2001-02

• BOYS
• 11 year olds 53.3
• 13 year olds 52.1
• 15 year olds 47.8

• Girls
• 11 year olds 37.5
• 13 year olds 31.4
• 15 year olds 28.8