The role that PE, Sport & Physical Activity can play in addressing disadvantage and inequality in schools, and the wider community.
The focus for the 2025 Physical Education conference is about the power of PE, Sport and Physical Activity has in overcoming inequality, and how schools, and the wider community can create an environment where all young people are valued and can participate in activities with their peers.
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We are really excited that this conference will engage both primary and secondary colleagues in the same space, in a range of practical and 'classroom' workshops.
We are particularly thrilled to have two fabulous Keynote presenters
Neil Moggan
Neil is the author of Time to RISE Up – Supporting Students' Mental Health in Schools and the Founding Director of Future Action, an organisation dedicated to empowering educators to transform children's mental wellbeing and life chances through trauma-informed practice, movement for mental wellbeing, and early intervention strategies.
In this powerful keynote, Neil will explore how Trauma-Informed PE (TIPE) is not just about movement—it’s about transforming lives. Through the lens of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs), protective factors, and the power of relationships, we will examine how a young person struggling with trauma can receive the support they need to change their life trajectory, while simultaneously improving the learning environment for their peers and enhancing teacher wellbeing.
Dr Vanessa King
Vanessa is Senior Consultant and EYFS lead, working for afPE, the subject association for Physical Education in the UK. Vanessa has over 20 years teaching experience in all phases from Early Years to Higher Education and has particular expertise in mentoring teachers to help with confidence and competence to teach Physical Education.
At a time of shifting sands, when the world has never needed Physical Education more, Vanessa will provide National Updates from The Association for Physical Education, and share some thoughts on the golden thread of PE, stressing the importance of EYFS as the foundation to building a PE curriculum that supports children’s learning through to adulthood.
Workshops and Activities
There will be a fantastic array of workshops on offer during the conference.
Delegates will be given choices as part of a carousel of activities.
- Early Years Foundation Stage PE
- Mental Health
- Safeguarding and Welfare
- Parkour
- Research informed PE
- PSHE & PE
- SEND and Talent recognition
- Quidditch
- Lifestyle focussed PE
- Inclusive Tennis
- Boxercise
- Trauma informed PE
- Movement not Muscles
- Outdoor Education
- Padel-Ball
- Yoga
- The Daily Mile
- Korfball
- Move and Learn
- Athletics and Funletics
Market Place
There will be a comprehensive Market-Place throughout the day, providing a platform for a variety of assured providers, Governing Bodies, and activities all of whom can enhance the PE, Sport and Physical Activity offer in school platformed.
Booking details
Cambridgeshire Schools and Settings = £125 per teacher.
Bring a Colleague offer
£25 for any additional teachers from the same school.
(so 2 teachers from same school effectively cost £75 each, 3 teachers cost £58 each)
Out of county schools and settings = £150 per teacher.
Bring a colleague offer
£30 for any additional teachers from the same school.
(so 2 teachers from the same school effectively cost £90 each, 3 teachers cost £70 each)
How to Book
Bookings can be made via the PE & Sport Bookings Page
Enquiries
Any questions or enquiries to PE.Adviser@cambridgeshire.gov.uk
Feedback from 2024 PE conference
Question pitched to delegates
'What 'take homes' have you gained from the conference that you think you will be able to put into practice?'
| Nice to network with secondary and primary |
| Keep kids moving! |
| I’ve got some great resources and links to resources that can help me implement things in school. Love the ideas from Tagtivate. |
| Gymnastics fundamentals |
| Different way to implement our behaviour policy so children understand. Simple street dance moves and some calming yoga techniques |
| Some of the Hidden disabilities workshop points raised are very useful - Bryn's tagtiv8 session on active learning was excellent and something I will push to SLT. |
| Practical ways to use active learning in curriculum areas other than PE |
| The active learning ideas for maths and literacy was amazing and so simple . Gymnastics reminded me to go back to fundamentals |
| Lots more ideas for getting children active throughout the school day |
| Some great tips re gymnastics and some good OAA ideas. |
| Behaviour ideas with sports, movement in lessons across curriculum, korfball understanding and boxecise ideas |
| Lots of practical and easy to set up/lead OAA activities. Also, ideas on how children can adapt given games and create their own. |
| Embedding physical literacy throughout the day |
| Lots around active learning. Tips for alternatives to 'just dance'. |
| Some places to find resources and support for our school curriculum |
| Networking - speaking to other members of staff from other schools. |
| How to introduce active learning to maths as well as a range of other subjects and how to effectively deliver aspects of gymnastics to Primary school aged children |
| The gymnastics session was excellent - allowed clear take homes. Great talk from Max. Yoga was well planned, relative and allowed transferable skills into my teaching. |
| The dance workshop was excellent and I can take away key points and adapt across dance themes and year groups now. |
| Table tennis session was useful with direct 'take homes' to feedback to department. |
| Ideas to support strategic development of our PE provision - Active Learning strategies and use of Tagtiv8, alongside high quality Gymnastics provision. |
| Motivation |
| Gymnastics techniques for children |
| Including movement in all sessions. |
| Lots of strategies and ideas that can be put into place immediately, and lots of key ideas to think about over the long term. Feeling motivated to put lots of action in place! Stand out thoughts: make sure to be teaching basic shapes in gymnastics and develop movements from there; should brain breaks be called such when really they activate our brains?; how can learning be active, when can children move in Maths, English, etc... |
| Loved the practical ideas for making learning more active. |
| I found the whole conference extremely helpful. I have been looking at kite marks and awards for PE but as we are an infant school we are unable to gain any from the School Games. It was therefore, extremely helpful to attend the first work shop around Everyone Healthy and they were able to answer lots of my questions regarding this. The other two workshops offered lots of practical information that I can take back to school. It was also of great help to have the stalls and companies there to talk to face to face. |
| Lots of small ideas to take away and into lesson. Eg using some of the tips learnt in the Yoga session as well as STEPS framework for inclusive PE. A big take away is making learning active and this will be on our action plan for next year as we start to make changes towards this. |
| Contacts to develop the activities further. Ideas to get started |
| games making very productive and good for all students to succeed, cheerleading, |
| a clear understanding of swimming safe rescue expectations/criteria, inspiration for teaching outdoor adventure activities |
| Ideas to incorporate movement into maths lessons |
| Confidence in delivering Yoga, mental health strategies and reflection time, supporting EYFS with bringing PE tasks into the |
| Bring Yoga into daily practise. Active movement into maths etc. |
| Spending less time sat at a desk and using movement to support learning. |
| Further embedding the role of promoting physical activity as a 'whole school' approach not just the responsibility of key personnel in school. |
| New ideas/ suggestions for current curriculum lessons. Ideas for potential future sports/ activities on the curriculum. |
| Gymnastics techniques |
| So many, encourage all staff to include more moving in sessions and confidence in teaching gymnastics |
| Ideas for pupils to lead games ideas and develop their collaboration and leadership skills. |
| Ways of linking maths into PE lessons, ways of keeping kids active and engaged |
| Try to increase our movement through learning during class time- Bryn's talk |
| Activity within curriculum lessons, continued to build on a range of Boxercise activities, knowledge and understanding of table tennis, ideas for supporting pupils with asd |
| swim safety, SEN inclusion, ways to use boxercise |
| The 7 strengths pupils should gain from PE at school. The importance of movement for learning/concentration and to use it within lessons/transition times. The enjoyment of speed stacking and its versatility: can adapt activities for both primary key stages; can be used indoor/outside at lunchtimes/lesson times; help children who do not engage with standard games/sports; opportunity to improve your performance both individually and as part of a team; refocus certain children who lack concentration at times et . I like the inclusivity of Korfball and feel I can adapt the resources we have to play the game. It will help those girls, for example, at our school who are put off by competing with the boys for fear of failure whereas in this sport they will be marking girls. |
| Gymnastic techniques and how to get children moving within the classroom as movement breaks |
| Swimming activities to maximise time in the water, orienteering ideas, NHS health check for staff |
| Ryan’s session on games making was really interesting, highlighting how PE can be use to promote empathy while engaging students in physical activity |
| We are now in the process of organising training for the boxercise so that we can teach in school. |
