Pupils’ attitudes and motivation towards PE in the transition from Primary to Secondary school

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Williams, Lloyd
Date
2013Publisher
Cardiff Metropolitan University
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Growing up, my great passion in life has always been sport. To this day, this is
true. I have always had a great desire to participate in sport and in throughout my
entire school life I always looked forward to PE lessons. Looking back on my
school life I vividly remember that when I was in primary school, my peers always
brought their kit and always participated in PE. When I look back on my PE
experiences in secondary school, I clearly remember many negative attitudes
towards PE, with a number of my peers often purposely not bringing their PE kit to
school, so that they did not have to partake in PE lessons. This is something that I
have never been able to understand because I have always taken great joy in
sport. By visiting primary and secondary schools to work with pupils and speak to
teachers, I have remarked that there is still a big difference in primary school
pupils’ attitudes towards PE and secondary school pupils’ attitudes towards PE.
Primary school pupils always seem so eager to get their kit on and partake in a PE
lesson, whereas for many secondary school pupils, the idea of a PE lesson often
seems like an awful chore. Because of my great passion for sport and my
understanding of the importance of participation in physical activity, I feel a strong
desire to discover reasons for this. I want to find out why pupils’ attitudes towards
PE changes when they are in secondary school, and hopefully help to alter these
negative attitudes.
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