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Students who successfully balanced school and sport.
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Best practice to promote sport at schoolThis section offers access to a collection of toolkits to promote sport at school.
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Physical Education Teachers
They are the main point of reference for students at school
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Teachers
Teachers of all subjects can contribute to promote sport at school
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School Directors
Their support is a key element to promote sport at school
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Resources
A database of resources for teachers, PE teachers and school directors for the promotion of sport at school.
Sporting events are organised in each partner country
Sport Events
Access the page with the sport events informationGuidelines for policy makers willing to raise awareness on the importance of promoting sport in schools
Sport and School
Promotion and integration of all sports into curricular activities
Education for Ethical Based Sport
The importance of an ethical approach to sportEvents
The Not Only Fair Play project has been promoted through conferences and articles.
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The Not Only Fair Play project was presented at a number of events in order to report both activities carried out and the results achieved.
Press Review
The Not Only Fair Play project partnership made contacts with web sites focusing on the fields of sport and education.Partnership
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Contractual Partners
From this section it is possible to access a description of each contractual partner of the Not Only Fair Play project.
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Schools
From this section it is possible to access information about the schools involved in the Not Only Fair Play Project in the 9 European countries involved.
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Associated Partners
A number of associated partners officially joined the project in order to ensure the project sustainability by continuing to use the project deliverables over the next years.
This section of the Not Only Fair Play portal provides administrative information for the project contractual partners and for the European Commission, and is password protected.
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How to Integrate Sport into Curricular Activities
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2. Design, develop and implement high-quality course of study in physical education
The physical education curriculum content should include physical activities according to maturity phases taking into account the favourable periods that allow the full development of neuromotor abilities and skills.
A comprehensive physical activity program should describe what a physically educated student should know and be able to do. It emphasizes meaningful content, which includes:
• Instruction in a variety of motor skills designed to enhance child and adolescent development;
• Fitness education and assessment that allows for students to understand and improve their physical well-being;
• Development of cognitive concepts related to motor skills and fitnes;
• Opportunities to improve social and cooperative skills;
• Opportunities to increase the value placed on physical activity for health, enjoyment, self-expression, and confidence.
When designing the school program it could address set standrads (which may vary per country and school) in terms of hours of physical activity children should have. As per reccommendation of the World Health Organization the physcial activity of kids should be no less than 150 minutes per week. Of course the school may wish to provide more hours, including not only a minum let’s say, envisaged in the regular school curriculum, but also additional ahour of physical activity before and after school. Physical activity and physical fitness produce overall physical, psychological and social benefits, and inactive children are likely to become inactive adults. Evidence also suggests a relationship between increased physical activity and improved academic performance; studies have shown that normal-weight children also have higher scholastic achievement, less absenteeism and higher physical fitness levels than their obese counterparts.
Another important matter in the developing and implementing PE curriculum is for the school to determine its resources: material resources (supplies and equipment), human resources and financial resources.
A good PE curriculum may include different types of sports as units of the program with objectives of the activity, skills to be acquired, activities to be performed, evaluation done and safety concerns. For example:
SWIMMING.
Objectives: The student will: improve swimming skills; understand water safety rules; recognize water emergency situations and know what to do; enjoy swimming as a means of maintaining fitness.
Skills: surface diving, treading water, stroke work, reaching/throwing assists, escapes, carries, spinal injury. Activities: demonstration, group work, conditioning, games, relays.
Evaluation: written test, skills tests, participation.
Safety Concerns: water depth awareness; proper supervision/following of instructions; spacing awareness during reaching/throwing assists.”
A comprehensive physical activity program should describe what a physically educated student should know and be able to do. It emphasizes meaningful content, which includes:
• Instruction in a variety of motor skills designed to enhance child and adolescent development;
• Fitness education and assessment that allows for students to understand and improve their physical well-being;
• Development of cognitive concepts related to motor skills and fitnes;
• Opportunities to improve social and cooperative skills;
• Opportunities to increase the value placed on physical activity for health, enjoyment, self-expression, and confidence.
When designing the school program it could address set standrads (which may vary per country and school) in terms of hours of physical activity children should have. As per reccommendation of the World Health Organization the physcial activity of kids should be no less than 150 minutes per week. Of course the school may wish to provide more hours, including not only a minum let’s say, envisaged in the regular school curriculum, but also additional ahour of physical activity before and after school. Physical activity and physical fitness produce overall physical, psychological and social benefits, and inactive children are likely to become inactive adults. Evidence also suggests a relationship between increased physical activity and improved academic performance; studies have shown that normal-weight children also have higher scholastic achievement, less absenteeism and higher physical fitness levels than their obese counterparts.
Another important matter in the developing and implementing PE curriculum is for the school to determine its resources: material resources (supplies and equipment), human resources and financial resources.
A good PE curriculum may include different types of sports as units of the program with objectives of the activity, skills to be acquired, activities to be performed, evaluation done and safety concerns. For example:
SWIMMING.
Objectives: The student will: improve swimming skills; understand water safety rules; recognize water emergency situations and know what to do; enjoy swimming as a means of maintaining fitness.
Skills: surface diving, treading water, stroke work, reaching/throwing assists, escapes, carries, spinal injury. Activities: demonstration, group work, conditioning, games, relays.
Evaluation: written test, skills tests, participation.
Safety Concerns: water depth awareness; proper supervision/following of instructions; spacing awareness during reaching/throwing assists.”
Learning Objective
The learning objective of this step is to provide knowledge about what physical education curriculum content should include; how this content should answer the maturity phases of students and what knowledge and skills should a student have after completing his education under that curriculum.
Online Resources
- 5 Approaches to Physical Education in SchoolsThe website presents physical education in the context of schooling with different curriculum models.
- Physical education lesson plansThe website provides a number of examples for physical education lessons plans, which are free to use.
- Expert Groups (EU Work Plan for sport 2014-2017)Health-enhancing physical activity
- Example of an PE curriculumThe document is an actual PE curriculum, designed so that it can be adjusted for grades 9 to 12.
- Physical Education: “The future ain’t what it used to be!”Analysis of PE development and curricula approaches
