Sporting heritage is an excellent subject matter to engage different learners with a whole range of subject areas and concepts. With the ability to tell the story of economic, political, and social change, sport is intrinsically linked to the local and national historical record, as well as being central to communities and personal identity.
Sporting heritage offers an engaging, inspirational, and accessible context for schools and home learners across all curriculum ages, informal learners, adult and older learners, and those in further and higher education.
You can find a growing number of resources in this section of our website.
You can also contact our Education Lead, Derek Peaple at education@sportingheritage.org.uk
In this episode, Rhian Lilley, Director of Development at Rounders England, and Derek Peaple, education lead at Sporting Heritage, explain how they collaborated on educational resources that promote the heritage, accessibility and values of rounders.
Find out more The stage is being set for the UEFA European Women’s Championship 2022 this summer, and to celebrate the heritage of women’s football our education lead, Derek Peaple has helped create a new resource as part of the UEFA Football in Schools Programme.
Find out more This flexible resource for Key Stage 2 or 3 uses the inspiration of the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games to pose students a ’20-22’ Challenge’ to design a 'Museum Exhibition’
Find out more This fun, flexible and creative resource for Key Stage 2, involves pupils working individually or in groups to card match illustrations of often ‘quirky’ sporting artefacts representing each letter of the alphabet to their descriptions.
Find out more Download our digital teaching resource guiding you through Key Stage 2 and 3 ideas, which link sporting heritage and art across the curriculum.
Find out more Inspired by the ‘One Kind Word’ theme of the Anti-Bullying Alliance’s Anti-Bullying Week programme, this set of resources uses ‘acts of sporting kindness’ from the past to encourage pupils to reflect on the theme as the basis for tutorial and personal development activities for Key Stages 2-4.
Find out more This flexible assembly resource for Key Stages 3 and 4 uses the story of two school friends, now professional players at Worcester Warriors Women, to explore a series of themes in relation to the history and development of the women’s game.
Find out more This flexible PowerPoint resource and accompanying teacher’s guide uses interviews with leading past and current players and a narrated history to creatively explore a series of specific and wider themes in relation to the history and development of the women’s game.
Find out more This flexible resource for Key Stages 3-5 is inspired by ‘Football’s Black Pioneers’ by Bill Hern and David Gleave and uses a focus on Viv Anderson, England's first black full international player.
Find out more This flexible resource for Key Stage 2 or 3 uses the inspirational story of Dana Abdulkarim, the first British hijab wearing Muslim woman to captain and coach her country in any sport.
Find out more This PowerPoint resource and accompanying teachers’ guide is designed to be used flexibly to deliver the Ancient Greece Key Stage 2 History programme of study using the design of an Ancient Olympics exhibition as the core activity.
Find out more This resource is designed to support Sixth Form students who are considering a sporting history-themed EPQ research topic.
Find out more This year we want more schools than ever to be part of our flagship event, National Sporting Heritage Day, which takes place on 30th September.
Find out more As a former secondary headteacher, I’ve always been excited by Sporting Heritage’s education vision and ambition; my new role now offers a fantastic opportunity to work with sector stakeholders to develop a strategic plan for the practical delivery of innovative learning in both formal and informal settings
Find out more ‘Sport’ as Nelson Mandela once so famously observed, ‘has the power to change the world. It has the power to inspire.... It speaks to youth in a language they understand. And its this wide appeal to young people which lies at the very heart of Sporting Heritage’s new Education Strategy.
Find out more That’s me. c.1980, Southern Boys’ Cross-Country Championships at Parliament Hill Fields, spiritual home of the sport. Perhaps even then I was ...
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