Making the links between health and physical education, sport and civics and citizenship education in Australia

Realising curriculum possibilities in Wales: teachers’ initial experiences of re-imagining secondary physical education

“…It was a lovely link between the community and the school … it's making sure that our pupils you know that they were being supported in school but also in the community to be successful in PE and sport … So, gymnastics, a local boxing club, local athletics I think, and one session we had about 11 people from around the community and all around the table and we worked with. [Charlie] Interestingly, the data supports findings elsewhere (Brett et al, 2022) in illustrating how the workshops enabled the participants to begin translating the ideas from the new CfW into solutions that were focused on enhancing sport, physical activity and health provision in schools and the community. In what follows, we summarise the key messages of the paper before suggesting some steps forward in providing continued support for the secondary PE community in Wales.…”

“…Whilst we acknowledge the small-scale of the research, echoing existing research (Brett et al, 2022;Chalkley et al, 2022), the experiences of the participants demonstrate how the implementation of innovative professional learning enables educators to make interpretations of the new CfW based on ideas drawn across the interrelated fields of education, physical activity and health. These outcomes also build upon the suggestions outlined by Gray et al (2022) who note how PE teachers in the UK need to be supported in navigate, interpret and enact curricula in an informed way.…”