PE and Sport Conference

PE AND SPORT CONFERENCE 2022

Anna Sheppard

CPD Representative, FOBISIA PE & Sport Committee and Head of PE, St. Andrews International School Bangkok

What an offering the FOBISIA PE and Sport Conference 2022 provided! Directors of Sport, Heads of PE, Teaching staff and coaches were spoilt for choice at this year’s virtual conference.

Held back in January the conference proceedings began with a keynote address by Julie Stern, from Learning That Transfers, posing pertinent questions and areas for future thinking around ‘the future of PE, Sport and Health. With one viewer describing this session as “Fast paced, with lots of interaction (despite online format), thought provoking & so much to reflect on!”, Julie set the scene for an outstanding two days that followed.

Delegates were treated to some world class speakers that included Olympic medallist Leon Taylor, High Performance Coach Allistair McCaw, Author, Mindset and Leadership Mentor Steve Sallis and Dr. Emma Ross who is the inaugural winner of the Changemaker award at the 2022 Sunday Times Sportswoman of the Year.

PE teachers were able to access multiple sessions in the area of curriculum development. Will Swaithes from the PE Scholar, Steve Waide and Paul Quinn from Beyond the Physical and Jace Ferguson hosted core PE related sessions whilst Tony Corcoran, Ross Hewitt and Pat Lacasse provided their expertise in academic PE which this year included the IB Sport Exercise and Health Science.

In addition to the sessions focused on PE, leadership and motivation it was fantastic to see sessions on inclusion, accessibility of sport for trans, non binary and intersex people, race in PE, girls in PE and sport, working with parents and chess.

Whilst the virtual conference has been hugely successful, PE and Sports colleagues are looking forward to the return of a face to face conference in future years. We are excited to be planning a hybrid event with The Alice Smith School for January next year.

"Was great to get an insight to an elite athletes life and tips and advice we can use today to help ourselves, our work and students we teach."

"A superbly presented and engaging session. Loads of food for thought. Best bit on online CPD I’ve ever attended. Buzzing. Can’t wait to see the other recordings." " A fabulous session, wish I had seen this before supervising the IA's this year! Clear, concise and an enlightening perspective.."