Learning through sport - Play with Purpose

  The school I did my third year PE BEd placement at in the mid-1980s was big on Touch Football. I remember as an assignment attached with that placement, the school asked me to develop a battery of skills tests for Touch as there wasn't anything like that for Touch Football at the time; and, skills tests were a major form of PE assessment at this time. Move forward a few years, and in the early 1990s a group of boys encouraged me to start a school Rugby program, and through this I  started playing Touch as my football (AFL) playing had come to a stop due to recurring injuries . Turned out, there was a competition not far from where I lived at the time, and started playing to learn a bit more about Rugby as a lot of rugby players were playing Touch over summer to keep fit. I continued to play 'on-and-off' for many years, and Touch became one of the school sports I coached regularly and taught in PE. In this post, I share how I came to teach/coach Touch using the Play with P...