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A Level PE, the hugely successful key text by David Kirk and the Loughborough University team goes from
strength to strength. First we had the book, then the website.
Now, prior to a new autumn term, we'd like to tempt those of you not yet familiar with this important book
(are there any of you out there?) the opportunity to see an inspection copy.
Simply email
us with the following details and we will pop one in the post and hope that you too will be enamoured by
the book's excellent layout, diagrams and website, and will use it as a core text throughout next year.
Details required are as follows:
1. Your name
2. Your title
3. Address of school
4. E-mail address
5. Number of students taking A/AS Level PE this year
6. Does your school also teach GCSE PE?
Email your request.
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To help in building school libraries across the country and beyond, we have organised our most popular titles in to eight specific packs, each including 7-13 handpicked titles offering a minimum discount of 15% on the RRP. The packs cover the following topics, and include the titles listed.
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UKPE Newsletter May 2008 Out NOW!
Welcome to the May edition of the UKPE
newsletter!
The school year has flown by and it is hard to believe
we are already well and truly into the summer term.
In this month's issue we take a look at how soaring
food prices are effecting school dinners, and the
students who are taking matters into their own
hands by operating a black-market trade in food
banned in schools, including burgers and chocolate,
in a backlash against healthier canteen menus.
It's not all bad news though, as girls can now look
forward to cheerleading in schools. The sport is being
introduced to liven up the PE curriculum and with our
up and coming book, Coaching
Youth
Cheerleading
released this summer, you have no excuse not
to get a head-start in reading up on this new craze!
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Here's just a taste of what you'll find in the UKPE Newsletter this month:
> Schools struggling to keep healthy meals on the menu as ingredient costs soar
> Gymnastics almost as dangerous as rugby, says report
> Labour's 2001 playground pledge still to be honoured
> Give us a 'P': pompoms take over PE class
> The children too obese to sleep safely
> Call for junk food ad clampdown
> Pupils shun Jamie Oliver's healthy diet for junk food runs
> Human Kinetics Blog
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Schools struggling to keep healthy meals on the menu as ingredient costs soar
The drive to make school meals healthier is being
jeopardised by the soaring cost of staple foods,
leaving canteens struggling to provide nutritious and
cheap dinners, local authorities say.
Double-digit increases in the cost of foodstuffs such
as bread, eggs and cooking oil have left local
authorities struggling to maintain high-quality
subsidised dinners. Dining hall managers have given
warning that, if they pass on the rising costs of
presenting healthy meals, parents may tell their
children to eat less healthy food outside schools.
They fear that, if the take-up of meals drops, the
purchasing power of local councils will fall, raising
costs further and causing canteens to disappear from
schools completely.
The average price of a school meal to parents last
year in England was £1.64, according to the Local
Authority Caterers Association (LACA) survey, but that
conceals a subsidy averaging 43p per meal.
John Freeman, director of children's services at
Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council, said that if food
prices continued to rise the Government's attempts to
eradicate bad school food would be derailed. "The fact
is the cost of providing healthy food is more than [the
cost of] turkey twizzlers," Mr Freeman said. "There will
be a tipping point when the take-up of meals drops
below a threshold and it'll spin out of control. It could
be within the year."
Times Online, April 21st 2008
Read the full story...
Gymnastics almost as dangerous as rugby, says report
Gymnastics is almost as dangerous as rugby, with
thousands of children suffering injuries each year, a
new report indicates.
Figures seen by The Times suggest that nearly
the same ratio of young gymnasts end up needing
medical treatment as players of aggressive contact
sports. This is mirrored by American research
showing that injuries from gymnastics are as
common as those caused by football and ice hockey.
It concludes: "Gymnastics has one of the highest
injury rates of all girls' sports. Increased skill difficulty
practised at younger ages, coupled with maintaining
the intensity and hours of training required to be
competitive, has led to concern regarding to the risk,
severity and long-term effects of injury to young
gymnasts."
British data shows that about 2,600 children under 16
are taken to hospital each year with injuries from
gymnastics. The youngsters suffer broken bones,
strains, sprains, dislocations and head injuries. Many
hurt themselves while performing handsprings,
somersaults and headstands, or in falls from
equipment.
Times Online, April 15th 2008
Read the full story...
Labour's 2001 playground pledge still to be honoured
The government has been accused of failing children,
after it emerged that a seven-year-old manifesto
commitment to invest £200m in updating the UK's
playgrounds has yet to be honoured.
Now the Government is to capitalise on the national passion revealed by the hit BBC1 show Strictly Come Dancing by investing £5.5m in dance for school-age children over the next three years.
It has emerged that less than £17m of the money
promised by Labour before the 2001 election has
been spent - just 8.4 per cent of the total originally
earmarked for improving play facilities.
The revelation is embarrassing for the government,
which has recently come under fire for selling off
school playing fields. It has also raised questions
about the government's promise to commit £235m to
provide an extra 3,500 play areas across the country
over the next three years. The pledge was a repeat of
a promise made by Education Secretary Ed Balls in
December.
In June 2001, Labour promised to earmark £200m of
National Lottery money for the creation of 2,000 safe
play areas. But no money was forthcoming. Then, in
2004, Labour MP Frank Dobson produced a report
reiterating the government's commitment to spend the
£200m on improving children's play facilities.
Responsibility for allocating the money was then
passed to the Big Lottery Fund, which distributes cash
for good causes.
Now figures obtained by the Liberal Democrat
spokesman on culture Don Foster reveal that only
£16.7m of the lottery money has been spent. And
although most of the money has now been allocated,
£18m is still awaiting a home.
The Guardian, April 13th 2008
Read the full story...
Give us a 'P': pompoms take over PE class
Girls who dislike playing competitive games will be
allowed to trade in their hockey sticks for pompoms in
an effort to bring American-style cheerleading to
English schools.
Children in Plymouth, Leicester and Hertfordshire are
among those already being trained in "cheer dance" -
the beginner's form of cheerleading that includes
pompom routines, chants and athletic manoeuvres,
such as the splits.
The hope is that cheerleading will liven up the PE
curriculum and encourage those pupils turned off by
competitive sport to exercise.
"Cheerleading has a broad appeal because it
combines so many elements like dance, gymnastics
and music," said a spokesman for the Department for
Culture, Media and Sport, which is behind the initiative.
"Cheerleading is now recognised as a discipline by
[the governing body] British Gymnastics and I am sure
that it will continue to grow in popularity in this country."
Times Online, May 4th 2008
Read the full story...
The children too obese to sleep safely
Dozens of children as young as six and seven have
become so obese that doctors are being forced to put
them on ventilators at night to keep them breathing
while they sleep.
The children, whose breathing difficulties are blamed
on overeating rather than any medical conditions,
have been judged by the National Health Service to be
morbidly obese - weighing as much as four times the
normal weight for their age
The excessive weight bearing down on the chest,
together with deposits of fat around the throat and
neck, mean the children need ventilators to help them
to breathe while they sleep.
Doctors have revealed that the problem, previously
witnessed only in obese adults or children with
medical problems, is spreading to children of primary
school age as the latest consequence of the
childhood obesity epidemic.
Many of the children will need to sleep attached to a
breathing machine every night for the rest of their lives
and doctors warn that they are at "huge risk" of dying
because they cannot get enough oxygen.
Times Online, April 13th 2008
Read the full story...
Call for junk food ad clampdown
Junk food advertising makes it difficult to feed children
a healthy diet, a consumer survey suggests. Which?
found 83% of those polled believed irresponsible
marketing was making it harder to encourage children
to eat well. And most of the 2,000 questioned want the
government to do more to control the marketing of
unhealthy food to children.
But industry leaders said advertising in the UK is
already heavily regulated. A ban on adverts for junk
food during television programmes aimed at children
under 16 came into force in January 2008. However,
campaigners had called for a complete ban before the
9pm watershed.
Which? said rules governing junk food advertising on
the internet and on packaging were weak or
non-existent, while current regulations on television
advertising did not apply to the programmes most
watched by children.
The poll of people over the age of 16 found 84% think
there should be stronger controls on junk food
advertising to children. A bill to introduce robust
restrictions on unhealthy food advertising to children,
including setting a 9pm watershed, is due for its
second reading in Parliament.
Clare Corbett, a food campaigner at Which?,
said: "New types of promotions, like online and text
messaging, have given food companies a whole new
playground to promote unhealthy products to children.
It's no wonder pester power is a continuing problem
and our research shows the real strength of public
feeling. With childhood obesity and diet-related health
problems on the increase, the government must take
serious action and soon."
BBC News, April 18th 2008
Read the full story...
Pupils shun Jamie Oliver's healthy diet for junk food runs
Students are operating a black-market trade in food
banned in schools, including burgers and chocolate,
in a backlash against healthier canteen menus such
as those espoused by the celebrity chef Jamie Oliver.
Newly installed healthy menus in school canteens
and the removal of junk food from vending machines
have created a gap in the market that students have
been quick to fill. Some of the most sophisticated
operations are taking place at business and
enterprise schools.
The move to healthier meals in schools was
prompted by Oliver's crusade in 2005 against Turkey
Twizzlers and other unhealthy foods. The following
year the Government published a report setting
definitive nutritional standards for school lunches.
One young smuggling mastermind, when finally
caught, said to his school's headmaster
unapologetically: "But we were only doing what you
taught us in business studies, Sir."
Times Online, April 28th 2008
Read the full story...
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