Co-creating ‘Move to Sport’ with secondary PE teachers

The situation: Low and declining movement competency and fitness in children and adolescents presents an urgent need to develop provision necessary for our generation to reverse this trend. School-based Physical Education (PE) is a place we can address this by offering an approach to the curriculum not dominated by traditional notions of games.

The work: We co-created a scheme of work, known as Move to Sport (M2S), with PE teachers to teach in their own schools. M2S combines the use of a Movement Oriented Games Based Assessment (MOGBA) with RAMPAGE. We asked them how feasible M2S was to use in their own schools.

The results: PE teachers valued M2S, mostly for its potential in reducing children’s movement deficit and also as a suitable and alternative approach to traditional approaches to PE. Teachers needed support in understanding how to intertwine movement-based and sports-specific approaches to delivering PE. Some teachers now use M2S to benchmark children’s movement competence as they enter secondary schools and provide support accordingly. We continue to work alongside schools as they further explore their uses of M2S to improve children’s movement and fitness.