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National School Sports Week 2024

The PE Hub

Educating children about the importance of physical activity and encouraging participation is absolutely crucial, as it helps to develop healthy habits that can be kept throughout a lifetime. Physical activity stimulates the production of endorphins, acting as natural painkillers and mood elevators.

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How to plan an inclusive primary school Sports Day

Aspire-Ed

A key date in the school sports calendar is coming up. Sports Day is a chance to celebrate physical activity, improve teamwork, develop social skills, create healthy competition, build resilience and inspire active lives. With this ready-to-go Inclusive Sports Day resource. Customisable score table.

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Why teach gymnastics in primary school?

Aspire-Ed

The impact ranges from physical to emotional to cognitive to social. Here we break down that impact and take a closer look at why gymnastics is an essential sport to teach in primary school. Teaching gymnastics develops key physical skills. Teaching gymnastics helps children improve in other sports.

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Get your ticket for The Active Primary Schools Conference

Aspire-Ed

Do you want to boost the quality of your primary school's PE, sport and physical activity (PESSPA) to inspire children to be more active, more often? Join us at The Active Primary Schools Conference to discover how you can do just that. What is The Active Primary Schools Conference?

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Memorable moments from The Active Primary Schools Conference 2022

Aspire-Ed

The Active Primary Schools Conference took place on 25 th November 2022 and was the biggest conference to date. Over 90 primary school PE teachers, senior leaders, business managers and governors booked to join us at Millennium Point, all on a mission to boost their PE, school sport and physical activity offering.

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Encouraging greater sport participation

Learning Through Sport

There is substantial evidence of many psychological, physical, and social health benefits of participation in sport across the lifespan, including that participation in sport is associated with improved psychological and social health benefits above other forms of leisure time physical activity for children and adolescents.

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Cooloongup Primary School – Quality Mark Blog

Association for Physical Education

13/03/2023 The afPE Quality Mark Award is a prestigious award that will evidence the strength and quality of Physical Education, School Sport and Physical Activity (PESSPA) in your school.