A Wee Bit of Everything

PE teachers, Jordan Flynn and Stewart Ferns join us today on our second live webinar where they share their thoughts and experience on the Broad General Education curriculum. On today's episode, the boys delve into how they deliver this area of the curriculum within their school for maximum impact and how they plan their learning intentions and success criteria to help them assess their pupils.

Menno Slingerland is a physical education teacher educator and researcher in the School of Sport Studies at the Fontys University of Applied Sciences, in the Netherlands. He holds a PhD in human movement sciences from Maastricht University. Before starting at Fontys University he worked as a PE teacher in secondary school. His teaching and research interests mainly focus on assessment, student motivation, teacher professional development and teacher education within the context of physical education. Today we chat with Menno on all things formative assessment and how we can best utilise this within the context of PE teaching.

This week we have put a different spin on the podcast by hosting a webinar for PE students across the country. Joining us for this episode was former podcast guest Aaron Anderson (PE Teacher at Madras College) and Jonny MacWhirter (DHT at Beeslack Academy). Today's episode was looking at the release of Aaron's book on teaching strategies for delivering Higher PE. Aaron shares some good insight into some of the strategies within the book and how he has applied them within his context. Jonny talks to us about the whole school remote learning approach he is trialling in his school to help the pupils feel less overwhelmed with online learning and shares some excellent advice for student teachers going forward. Another episode filled with actionable points that student and current PE teachers can benefit from.

Garry Hay joins the boys on A Wee Bit of Everything this week to talk about all things school of football. Garry is a player and coach development officer with the SFA in the South West Region. Garry is a Scottish former professional footballer, who played in over 300 Scottish Premier League games for Kilmarnock. Garry won the Scottish League Cup in 2012 against Celtic and also made his debut in the opening day of the 1999/2000 season against Rangers. Gary also represented Scotland B team in 2005 against Poland at Rugby Park.

This week on the podcast, we are delighted to welcome Claire Davies. We were introduced to Claire via social media from a good friend and previous guest on the podcast Ross Hyslop, who met Claire whilst hiking Scotland’s finest Munros up the North of Scotland.

Claire is on today to talk about her experiences travelling and how she ended up cycling across South East Asia from Hanoi to Bangkok which is 3000KM. Claire also has a background in triathlon, which is how she got into cycling. In 2019, Claire completed her first ultra marathon, the Type 2 Fun Run with a distance of 66 trail miles in the Cairngorms and competed in the Trans Alba which is a 1066 mile self supported bike race around Scotland. She has also recently become a mountain leader and is starting to lead bike packing trips in Scotland. An inspiring episode that will make you want to plan your next adventure.

This week on the podcast, we are delighted to welcome Allan Campbell. Allan is a former colleague of Clark's at Calderside Academy 5 years ago. Even back then Allan showed enthusiasm and passion for ICT within PE. Today on the podcast Allan will discuss his top tips for high quality digital learning for Physical Education. Allan will delve deeper into the Do’s and Don’t whilst teaching online and how to engage pupils in the learning process. A very informative episode not to be missed in today's educational climate.

Today we welcome Janice Smith and Jamie Baxter onto a wee bit of everything. Janice is a Principal Teacher PE & Achievement at Smithycroft Secondary and Jamie is a PE teacher at Denny High School. We are going to delve into how to answer Section 3 questions effectively and discuss key tips for NATIONAL 5 teachers from each of the guests. We thought this episode would be relevant for National 5 teachers at the moment so we hope you enjoy and take something from it.

This week on the podcast, we are delighted to welcome Jonny Penman from Caledonia Primary, Glasgow. Jonny is passionate about the delivery of high quality PE and is a massive advocate of allowing pupils to problem solve when participating in Physical Education. Johnny talks us through how he delivers this problem solving curriculum through teaching PE. By creating a problem, Johnny then shares this with the class and the children decide the most appropriate benchmarks to solve the problem. This then shapes the focus of the learning for the activity blocks. This episode will make you re-think how you deliver your BGE blocks. A lot of great takeaway's from this episode so make sure you tune in.

This week on the podcast, we are delighted to welcome Professor David Kirk on to the show. David is currently the Professor of Education and former Head of the School of Education (2014-17) at the University of Strathclyde. He is an educational researcher with teaching and research interests in educational innovation, curriculum history, and physical education and sport pedagogy. David is the founding editor of the peer reviewed journal Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy and editor of Routledge Studies in Physical Education and Youth Sport. He has held academic appointments previously in universities in England, Australia, Ireland and Belgium and is currently Honorary Professor of Human Movement Studies at the University of Queensland. His most recent book Precarity, Critical Pedagogy and Physical Education was published by Routledge in 2020. Which we find out in more detail about in today’s episode.

This week on the podcast, we are delighted to welcome Paul McMillan on to the show. Paul is a lecturer in the PE programme at the University of Edinburgh. He is passionate about teaching: the complex nature of it and how Lesson Study may play a role in developing further teachers’ practice. We are about to hear about the key insights from his research and how he has worked with teachers using this approach.