PE Insights - PE Scholar

About PE Insights - PE Scholar

Welcome to the PE Insights Podcast, brought to you by the fantastic team at PE Scholar. Conversations about Physical Education with Nathan Walker | @NWalkerPE A podcast for those dedicated to physical education - join the conversation. #PEInsightsPod 🙌🏼🎙️✨ Sponsored by Sports Directory, the leading supplier of PE and sports equipment to schools. If you are interested in coming on the podcast, message @NWalkerPE or @PEScholar on Twitter/X.

Publisher

PE Insights Podcast - PE Scholar

Category

education

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

30 Sept 2023

Latest episode

9 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

93 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   9 Oct 2026

   Episode 90 - Asha Riley - Helping Girls Build a Positive Relationship with Movement

   How can we help girls build a relationship with movement that lasts beyond school? In this episode of the PE Insights Podcast, I’m joined by Asha Riley, Head of Active Wellbeing at St Swithun’s Prep School, lecturer and tutor at the University of Buckingham, and creator of MOVE60. Asha shares how she’s working to build an active school culture where girls feel seen, supported and confident to participate. We explore the everyday choices that shape that culture: the opportunities we offer, the voices we listen to, and whose achievements we celebrate. Our conversation covers: • Listening to girls and using the Girls Active survey to inform change. • Creating different routes into activity, from lunchtime clubs to strength and conditioning. • Talking openly about periods, sports bras and barriers to participation. • Helping pupils develop confidence, physical literacy and the ability to adapt as life changes. • Balancing inclusion with appropriate challenge and positive experiences of exertion. We also reflect on Asha’s international teaching experience and what colleagues in different school settings might take from her approach. Throughout, we return to a shared ambition: helping girls leave school with the skills, confidence and positive experiences to keep finding their own ways to be active. PE Insights is brought to you by PE Scholar. Want to take your learning further? Unlock exclusive PE resources, research and CPD courses with PE Scholar Membership—your one-stop hub for professional growth and impact. Use code POD10 at checkout or visit ⁠⁠⁠https://psch.la/POD10⁠⁠⁠ (https://psch.la/POD10) for 10% off today! We are excited to share our partnership with ⁠⁠⁠Sports Directory⁠⁠⁠ (https://www.sportsdirectoryuk.co.uk/?utm_source=pe_scholar&utm_medium=podcast_bio&utm_campaign=pe_scholar_partnership). Through its “⁠⁠⁠My School Rewards⁠⁠⁠ (https://www.sportsdirectoryuk.co.uk/pages/school-rewards-scheme?utm_source=pe_scholar&utm_medium=podcast_bio&utm_campaign=pe_scholar_partnership)” scheme, your school will receive 10% back on every order, helping you make your departmental budget go further.

2. 

   28 Aug 2026

   Episode 89 - Ben Mayes - Know, Show & GROW - Holistic and meaningful physical education

   Season four begins with Ben Mayes, Head of Physical Education at Bodmin College, for a thoughtful and practical conversation about creating PE experiences that support the whole child. Ben shares how the Know, Show & GROW framework shapes his curriculum thinking, lesson design and leadership. We explore how pupils can develop knowledge and movement competence while also learning to demonstrate resilience, empathy, persistence, independence and other qualities that extend beyond PE. Ben challenges us to consider whether we genuinely teach and assess personal development - or whether we sometimes offer little more than definitions and brief conversations. In this episode, we discuss: What Know, Show & GROW looks like within a PE lesson Why the GROW objective should be explicitly taught, modelled and celebrated Normalising struggle, failure and difficulty within learning Creating active arrivals and making purposeful use of changing time Using retrieval, questioning and conditioned games to reinforce learning Developing pupil autonomy, agency and ownership Using models-based practice, including Sport Education, Cooperative Learning and Teaching Personal and Social Responsibility The relationship between Know, Show & GROW and Move, Think, Feel and Connect Leading curriculum change and developing a shared departmental language What the future national curriculum might prioritise within PE Ben also poses an important challenge: Where does GROW rank within your PE lessons - and could your pupils explain how they have grown after the lesson has finished? This episode offers plenty of practical ideas for PE teachers, trainees and subject leaders who want their curriculum to remain physically active while becoming more holistic, meaningful and genuinely focused on learning. Connect with Ben on LinkedIn to follow his work and explore the resources he shares with the PE community. PE Insights is brought to you by PE Scholar. Want to take your learning further? Unlock exclusive PE resources, research and CPD courses with PE Scholar Membership—your one-stop hub for professional growth and impact. Use code POD10 at checkout or visit ⁠⁠https://psch.la/POD10⁠⁠ (https://psch.la/POD10) for 10% off today! We are excited to share our partnership with ⁠⁠Sports Directory⁠⁠ (https://www.sportsdirectoryuk.co.uk/?utm_source=pe_scholar&utm_medium=podcast_bio&utm_campaign=pe_scholar_partnership). Through its “⁠⁠My School Rewards⁠⁠ (https://www.sportsdirectoryuk.co.uk/pages/school-rewards-scheme?utm_source=pe_scholar&utm_medium=podcast_bio&utm_campaign=pe_scholar_partnership)” scheme, your school will receive 10% back on every order, helping you make your departmental budget go further.

3. 

   6 Aug 2026

   Episode 88 - Matt Magowan - Split Screen Teaching, Learning Rivers, Universal Screening and Fundamental Movement

   In this episode of the PE Insights Podcast, Nathan speaks with Matt about how Physical Education can develop much more than pupils’ physical competence. The conversation begins with Split Screen teaching, an approach influenced by the work of Guy Claxton. Building on the podcast’s previous discussion with Dr Will Patz about making curriculum values explicit, Matt explains how teachers can deliberately foreground qualities such as courage, collaboration and independence alongside physical learning. He also shares how pupils can help to co-construct success criteria, making these wider learning behaviours visible, meaningful and easier to recognise within lessons. Nathan and Matt then explore Fundamental Movement Skills and the important role they play in supporting children’s development. Matt outlines how his school uses KIDDO to screen pupils from Early Years 3 to Grade 5, alongside beginning-of-unit assessments and Guttman analysis in selected areas of the curriculum. Rather than viewing assessment as an endpoint, the discussion considers how it can help teachers understand pupils’ starting points and make better-informed decisions about curriculum planning and teaching. The episode also examines learner variability: recognising that pupils arrive in PE with different experiences, strengths, needs and levels of confidence. Matt shares how assessment information can be used to plan more responsive learning experiences while maintaining high expectations for every pupil. Throughout the conversation, Nathan and Matt consider how PE teachers can make both physical learning and personal development more intentional, visible and accessible. Topics covered include: What Split Screen teaching means in Physical Education Making curriculum values and learning behaviours explicit Co-constructing success criteria with pupils Assessing Fundamental Movement Skills Using KIDDO as a universal movement screener How Guttman analysis can inform curriculum planning Planning and teaching for learner variability Using assessment to support responsive and inclusive practice An insightful episode for PE teachers, curriculum leaders and anyone interested in using assessment purposefully to better understand and support every learner. Want to take your learning further? Unlock exclusive PE resources, research and CPD courses with PE Scholar Membership—your one-stop hub for professional growth and impact. Use code POD10 at checkout or visit ⁠https://psch.la/POD10⁠ (https://psch.la/POD10) for 10% off today! We are excited to share our partnership with ⁠Sports Directory⁠ (https://www.sportsdirectoryuk.co.uk/?utm_source=pe_scholar&utm_medium=podcast_bio&utm_campaign=pe_scholar_partnership). Through its “⁠My School Rewards⁠ (https://www.sportsdirectoryuk.co.uk/pages/school-rewards-scheme?utm_source=pe_scholar&utm_medium=podcast_bio&utm_campaign=pe_scholar_partnership)” scheme, your school will receive 10% back on every order, helping you make your departmental budget go further.

Who has been a guest on PE Insights - PE Scholar

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Lee Sullivan
• Dr Aspasia Dania
• Ben Shields
• Daniel Miller
• Nathan Joyce

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Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

3 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

62 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 54 / 100

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Quality

60

Social presence

91

YouTube

0

Engagement

77

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