blogs.independent.co.uk| » pe lessons http://blogs.independent.co.uk| Blogs from the Independent newspaper - news, views and features from the world's most free-thinking newspaper| Fri, 24 May 2013 12:26:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2| en hourly 1 Is this the end of inclusive education? http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/08/17/will-%e2%80%98olympic-legacy%e2%80%99-spell-the-end-of-inclusive-education/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/08/17/will-%e2%80%98olympic-legacy%e2%80%99-spell-the-end-of-inclusive-education/#comments Fri, 17 Aug 2012 01:00:10 +0000 Sarah Ismail http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=27498 Late last year, I was horrified to read that a conference of sports medicine specialists was calling for PE to become a compulsory subject in schools. Worse, they wanted it to be a tested subject along with English and Maths, at every key stage of education.]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/08/17/will-%e2%80%98olympic-legacy%e2%80%99-spell-the-end-of-inclusive-education/feed/ 4 Two hours of sport per day is unrealistic http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/08/13/two-hours-of-sport-per-day-is-unrealistic-unless-you-attend-eton/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/08/13/two-hours-of-sport-per-day-is-unrealistic-unless-you-attend-eton/#comments Mon, 13 Aug 2012 13:13:09 +0000 Cameron Corbett http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=27337 Following the recent success at the Olympics, there has been a huge increase in the amount of rhetoric regarding the sporting future of the education system.]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/08/13/two-hours-of-sport-per-day-is-unrealistic-unless-you-attend-eton/feed/ 45 For some children, PE lessons are far from enjoyable http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/08/10/for-some-children-pe-lessons-are-far-from-enjoyable/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/08/10/for-some-children-pe-lessons-are-far-from-enjoyable/#comments Fri, 10 Aug 2012 14:03:42 +0000 Sophie Warnes http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=27281 At the height of Olympic fever, it’s all well and good to say that children should be doing more sport and that state schools should add more hours of PE into the curriculum, but I think we are overegging the pudding, here.]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/08/10/for-some-children-pe-lessons-are-far-from-enjoyable/feed/ 100