A Wee Bit of Everything

This week on the podcast, we welcome Emma Drewery. Emma graduated from UWCC with a BSc(Hons) in Optometry followed by a pre-registration working year at Newcastle Royal Infirmary Eye Department. She worked in Edinburgh, Glasgow and Stirling for independent and group opticians for over ten years. Whilst working she gained a diploma in Sports Vision in 2004 and also began her training with the British Association of Behavioural Optometrists. In 2007 Emma opened her own optometrist practice in Bridge of Allan to help her develop her specialist skills in sport and childrens vision alongside providing high quality family eyecare. Did you know that you can have 20/20 vision but poor visual processing? Emma explains how this can result in injuries within athletes and poor behaviour from our pupils.

We are joined this week by Dan Nash who is an experienced marathon runner holding a PB of 2 hours and 18 minutes. Dan finished 2nd and 4th at Brighton Marathon (2018, 2019). He also holds the world 50km bronze medalist and is the British 50km record holder. On top of his running achievements Dan has a BSc in Biomedical Science, an MSc in Exercise Physiology, and he is a PhD candidate in exercise physiology. It's fair to say Dan has a sound understanding of how to train the body to maximise our running ability and he shares a lot of this knowledge with us during this episode.

This week on the podcast, we are delighted to welcome Cathy Shilling on to the show. Cathy is a consultant in Speech & Language Therapy achieving a BSc in Speech and Language Therapy and Pathology back in the early 90’s. Cathy’s vision is to provide high quality, timely interventions which are tailored to the individual child, their family and their school. Cathy shares practical strategies which can be applied to help tackle speech and language related barriers to education and to evaluate progress made.

This week on the podcast, we are joined by Stephanie Davis. Stephanie is on to today to talk to us about all things running. She is 29 years old from Scotland. Stephanie recently ran a 2:27.40 marathon time at Valencia in December 2019 which reached Olympic qualifying standard. She only recently started taking running seriously over two years ago and has shown how hard work, discipline and a desire to be the best she can be has allowed her to excel in distance running.

This week on the podcast, we are delighted to welcome Dr Andy Dalziell on to the show. Andy is a consultant in Bilateral Integration and a neuro developmental practitioner who helps infants, children and young adults to achieve their best everyday. Andy is renowned for his expert knowledge in using the BMT pedagogy and he will explain the how’s and why's behind this model.

This week we are joined by Tony McDaid who is the Executive Director of Education of South Lanarkshire. Tony gives us a great insight into his career journey where he started out as a PE teacher and worked his way through several leadership roles towards his current position within education. On today's episode we ask Tony about what schools can learn from lockdown to maintain a positive school environment moving forward. Tony also share his thoughts on the current educational climate and how we can ensure teaching and learning remains at a high standard.

This week on A Wee Bit of Everything, we are delighted to welcome Evelyn Hart on to the show. Evelyn is a lecturer at Strathclyde University who has strong interests in building teacher confidence in teaching primary PE. She also is an advocate of pupil voice and the benefits this can bring to education outcomes for young people. Evelyn firmly believes in creating meaningful partnerships in education and we touch on this in today's episode. Evelyn Kindly shares some of her successful projects she led during her time as a primary teacher along with some funny stories.

This week on the podcast we are joined by head of Strathclyde University PE Teaching programme Cara Lamb. Cara talks in depth about the Activist approach and when teaching teenage girls in Physical Education and practical strategies on how this can be implemented into our practice. Cara also finishes off with some words of wisdom for current teachers and student teachers to further develop their skills and knowledge within their subject.

This week we are joined by Cameron Stewart who is also a primary PE specialist. Cameron talks to us about the sport education model and teaching games for understanding and the successes he has had with these models in his own practice.

We are joined this week by primary PE specialist Chris Crookston to talk to us about the teaching methods he has had a lot of success in with his own practice. On todays episode Chris shares experiences using the small sided games approach to teaching along with BMT and how he incorporates this into his teaching. Chris shares some tips on how he observes his pupils to assess them effectively along with practical examples of how he uses each model.