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Physical exercise
One excellent reason we should celebrate putting sport before maths
As students resume school and summer sport, new research from the University of Sydney shows a positive link between participation in sport and academic performance, with the strongest association when sport is held during school hours. Previous research suggests kids’ involvement in sport could have benefits above and beyond general physical activity because of the …
What you should know about physical literacy
On Monday, we posted on the very real challenges facing those who teach PE on Zoom. Today we …
Why it’s a nightmare to use Zoom to get moving
Schools around Australia were forced into online delivery of physical education (PE) in Term 2, 2020, due to measures taken to suppress and restrict the spread of Covid-19. We looked at what really happened in classrooms. The results show us exactly how marginalised PE became. What we found in our research, ‘Just do some physical …