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PE Insights Podcast - 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.
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.
Episodes
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Oct 17, 2025 • 37min
Episode 71 - James Tuthill - Trauma Informed Physical Education and a focus on Wellbeing - RISE UP in action.
Welcome back to the PE Insights Podcast. Thank you for your continued support.Episode 71 is a conversation with James Tuthill of Charles Darwin Primary School in Norfolk.We talk about how he is shifting the focus towards wellbeing in PE through using RISE Up in collaboration with Future Action and Neil Moggan.This one comes from recordings from the back end of the last academic year. Lots for Primary PE teachers to think about in this one.Hope you enjoy it!We are excited to share that we have formed a partnership with Sports Directory, with their 'My School Rewards' Scheme, you’ll get 10% back on every order, helping you to grow your department budget. Check it out now.

Oct 3, 2025 • 39min
Episode 70 - Professor Liz Durden-Myers - Trains rolling into the station: is your suitcase packed?
Welcome back to the PE Insights Podcast!Season 3 is now LIVE!Join me, as I have a conversation with the fantastic Professor Liz Durden-Myers. Lots of updates in this one, an insight into Liz's continued work on Physical Literacy, and the brilliant suitcase and train station analogy.Hope you enjoy it!We are excited to share that we have formed a partnership with Sports Directory, with their 'My School Rewards' Scheme, you’ll get 10% back on every order, helping you to grow your department budget. Check it out now.

Sep 24, 2025 • 6min
Season 3 - A Brief Update!
Hello everyone and welcome back to the PE Insights Podcast - Season 3!Listen out of the call to action, and get ready for another year of amazing insights from inspiration people in the PE space.

Jul 25, 2025 • 36min
Episode 69 - Mike Lowery - 'High performance' and a vision for PE & Sport
So here it is, the final episode of the PE Insights Podcast for this academic year.A conversation with Mike Lowery, Director of Sport at a large British international school in Dubai.We discuss high performance, Mike's vision for PE and school sport, what makes effective teams, and of course, the quick fire questions.Hope you enjoy the episode! More episodes will return in September 2025. Enjoy some time to rest and recover, but by all means plug in a podcast when you're by the pool, out on a walk, in the gym or the car. I'm always keen to hear your thoughts!We are excited to share that we have formed a partnership with Sports Directory, with their 'My School Rewards' Scheme, you’ll get 10% back on every order, helping you to grow your department budget. Check it out now.

Jul 18, 2025 • 50min
Episode 68 - Will Grove - Returning to a conversation about PE curriculum development
Welcome back to the PE Insights Podcast.Today's episode welcomes the return of Will Grove to the podcast. We had a conversation previously about their thoughts on PE curriculum, and in this chat, I catch up with Will to see how these developments are taking shape. Lots of ground covered in this episode, and hopefully, it will be thought-provoking for anyone who is engaged in designing, amending, leading PE curriculum in other settings.As always, I would love to hear your thoughts on this.We are excited to share that we have formed a partnership with Sports Directory, with their 'My School Rewards' Scheme, you’ll get 10% back on every order, helping you to grow your department budget. Check it out now.

Jul 4, 2025 • 1h 1min
Episode 67 - Lee Sullivan - From PE Dread to Delight
Welcome back to the PE Insights Podcast!Episode 67 is a conversation with the excellent, Lee Sullivan.Many of our listeners in the PE space will know of the work Lee has contributed, but if you don't here is a great opportunity to find out more.We reflect on Lee's first book 'Is PE in Crisis?', we discuss his current thoughts on Concept Curriculum in PE. Then we are introduced to his two latest publications: 'The Movement Monster', and 'From PE Dread to Delight'.You can find these publications here: https://www.pescholar.com/product-category/books/Hope you enjoy the episode, and as always, I'd love to hear your thoughts!We are excited to share that we have formed a partnership with Sports Directory, with their 'My School Rewards' Scheme, you’ll get 10% back on every order, helping you to grow your department budget. Check it out now.

Jun 27, 2025 • 41min
Episode 66 - Dr Aspasia Dania - Play is not a reward, play is a human right
Welcome back to the PE Insights Podcast!Today, I am joined by the wonderful Dr Aspasia Dania - Associate Professor of Physical Education and Teacher Education at the the University of Athens, Greece.In our conversation today, we talk about games, playfulness, social responsibility, meaningfulness and pre-service teachers. Lots covered and I was inspired by Aspasia as she shares her thoughts, philosophy and experiences.Hope you enjoy the episode!We are excited to share that we have formed a partnership with Sports Directory, with their 'My School Rewards' Scheme, you’ll get 10% back on every order, helping you to grow your department budget. Check it out now.

Jun 20, 2025 • 40min
Episode 65 - Ben Shields - Connection, Challenge, Choice, Curiosity
Hello everyone… welcome back to the PE insights podcast. Conversations about physical education with me your host NW bought to you by the fantastic team at PE Scholar. I hope you’re well. As I release this episode on the week which held the UK’s National Thank a Teacher’ day, I’d like to give a shoutout to every teacher, for their endless hard work and selflessness in striving to improve the lives of every young child. Sincerely, thank you. Let’s talk about today’s episode - in this conversation I catch up with the brilliant Ben Shields, we discuss all things PE; international perspectives, curriculum design and our shared 4 C’s. In the episode we make reference to the PYP curriculum and if you’re sat there wondering what this is, I’ve put a link in the show notes for you to take a look at. https://www.ibo.org/programmes/primary-years-programme/We discuss how HPE has the potential to reduce movement time in PE, what would your thoughts be on this? I’d love to hear them, so feel free to leave a comment on social media. That said, and as always, grab a drink, a notepad, sit back, relax, or keep moving… let’s dive in!We are excited to share that we have formed a partnership with Sports Directory, with their 'My School Rewards' Scheme, you’ll get 10% back on every order, helping you to grow your department budget. Check it out now.

Jun 13, 2025 • 37min
Episode 64 - Daniel Miller - Changing the focus of physical education
Welcome back to the PE Insights Podcast.Episode 64 is a conversation with Daniel Miller, head of PE in Doha, Qatar. We chat about his journey to date and his changing philosophy. We unpack how he has applied a conceptual approach to curriculum design in his previous and current schools.As always, sit back, relax and enjoy! If you feel like it, why not drop the podcast a review, every little helps!We are excited to share that we have formed a partnership with Sports Directory, with their 'My School Rewards' Scheme, you’ll get 10% back on every order, helping you to grow your department budget. Check it out now.

Jun 6, 2025 • 38min
Episode 63 - Nathan Joyce - From Fitness Testing to Holistic Outcomes
Welcome back to the PE Insights Podcast.Today, I am joined by PE Teacher, Nathan Joyce. In our conversation we discuss his PE philosophy and his journey so far. Particularly the tensions he has felt around assessment in PE, fitness testing and outcomes. As always, we would love to hear your thoughts.We are excited to share that we have formed a partnership with Sports Directory, with their 'My School Rewards' Scheme, you’ll get 10% back on every order, helping you to grow your department budget. Check it out now.


