Resources for Physical Educators

 

‘Starter for 10’ a primer for Secondary Physical Educators A short-list of sites for teachers looking for teaching resources and enrichment materials
Professional support Subject Associations and Related Resources
Links	Comments
Association for Physical Educators	The Association for Physical Educators  (afPE) is the professional body for those involved in physical education.
PEITTE.net	This site is designed and updated to support all those involved in initial teacher training for PE.
Sport England	Creating an active nation through sport.
Youth Sports Trust	A brighter future for young people through sport.
Sports Coach UK	A charitable organisation and the lead agency for development of the UK Coaching System.
DCMS	The Department of culture, media and Sport encourages the take-up of sport across communities and by children and young people in particular.
UK Sport	Working in partnership to lead sport in the UK to world class success.
Curriculum support
Links	Comments
Physical Literacy	This site offers a platform to explore concepts of physical literacy.
National Curriculum in Action	This website uses pupils' work and case study materials to show what the National Curriculum in PE looks like in practice.
Teachernet	A National Curriculum foundation subject compulsory at all Key Stages for all pupils.
QCA	Information on the new National Curriculum
Enrichment activities for PE	Greater use of specialist sports coaches for lunchtime and after-hours activities.
The Standards Site	National Curriculum schemes of work and advice on schemes.
Becta	Advice on using ICT to teach Physical Education.
Curriculum resources
Interactive Lessons
Links	Comments
Educator’s Resources Desk	The Educator's Reference Desk provides access to resources, lesson plans.
Primary Resources	Primary Resources - free worksheets, lesson plans and teaching ideas.
Teachernet – Lesson Plans	Search the database of over 2,000 lesson plans and resources. They have all been evaluated by teachers, and cover the national curriculum Key Stages 1 to 3.
Teaching Ideas	A selection of warm-up and cool-down PE ideas and resources.
Schoolzone	A guide to classroom resources and websites, and reviews of them written by teachers.
Teacher Training Resource Bank	Research findings and practical advice on teaching PE.
BBC Human body	Interactive activities about the skeleton and muscles.
BBC Health	Information on health and nutrition.
Interactive Assets
Links	Comments
Worth the Trip -Outward Bound	This short video programme, part of Teachers TV ‘Worth the Trip' series, follows a group of secondary children from Bradford at Ullswater Outward Bound Centre. A wide range of activities from rock climbing to raft building are shown.
Funfit	A large selection of PE related videos free.
Teach PE	Free interactive resources and videos
http://eduscapes.com/flash/explore.htm#4	A few good links to interactive PE resources.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/pe/	PE revision with RSS feed’s and links to other PE resources gathered by the BBC.
Teachers TV	1000 programmes online covering all subjects, 50 of them on teaching PE.
PE Digest	Subject information: illustrated articles on improving sports techniques, fitness and PE classes.  This is a US subscription site but there are some free resources.