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The role technology can play in delivering engaging PE lessons


Nick Powell PE specialist and director of PE Partner


We can all see the increased role technology plays in our everyday lives but what about within school and more particularly PE? Can technology help with delivering engaging PE lessons and at activity clubs, to ensure pupils get the most from PE and physical activity? Can technology help busy teachers when planning PE lessons?


The answer is of course yes to both of these questions. I’m going to explain how below, by sharing my top tips on how you can give all your pupils a positive experience of being active. You’ll see that technology can play a big part!


Target children who need your help to find the thing they’ll love – the right technology can really help!


Don’t just put on more clubs for your sporty kids to do more sports! Invest in a good way of tracking participation (such as SPIRALPE) and analyse the data to identify the children who aren’t currently doing any additional activities.


One great way we’ve found of doing this is to invest in some good child friendly digital cameras and offer a lunch time treasure hunt club to targeted pupils – they pair up with a friend, take the digital camera around school and take photographs – hunting for a list of items or something as simple as a certain set of letters they have to find on signs around school. Then they come back and print the pictures and build a collage.


Sell it to them as an art or ITC project, but ask them to wear step counters. They’ll love the activity and will have walked miles in the process, all whilst spending time with their friend. At the end of the project you might have children who realise how much they’ve enjoyed going for walks – and you could have set a really important habit for life in previously sedentary pupils – we call it health by stealth and it’s a really valuable intervention. The cameras are also a great way for the children to capture lots of proud moments to celebrate PE and activities.


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Make the most of the resources designed to help you


There are a lot of online resources and new technologies now available to help you deliver engaging and fulfilling activities which will help with your own organisation and review processes. This can be as simple as subscribing to free YouTube channels to get new ideas or reading other schools’ published funding reports. Be active on Twitter too – there’s lots of great people to follow – I find it’s a great source of best practice sharing and the best way to keep up with the PE conversation.


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