Members of the IPLA were invited to the International Conference on Physical Education and Sports, hosted by Lakshmibai National Institute of Physical Education (LNIPE) in Gwalior, India. The Conference was a remarkable gathering, uniting over 270 delegates from more than 15 countries. Among the attendees were diverse stakeholders from various sectors of the sports and physical education landscape, including academics, researchers, sports skill development professionals, sports nutritionists, advocates for physical literacy, and champions of sports for para-athletes. Additionally, the event we ..read more

Join us on Thursday 29th February, 2024 from 19:30pm – 20:45pm (GMT) for a Nurturing Physical Literacy FREE Online Webinar covering ‘Insights, Reflections, and Application in Early Childhood’. Get inspired by current research & training development and share your own work, opportunities & challenges. Whether you are a researcher, teacher, or PL advocate – come join us! Hosted by: Karen Rhys-Jones – IPLA Education Lead, Teacher Educator & Lecturer at Wrexham University, Wales Lisa Borglund – PhD student at Mälardalen University, Sweden focussing on PL in preschools Natalie Wei ..read more

IPLA is really excited to have an MOU with Change the Game, Sweden. We have been aware of the excellent work that Change the Game has been doing over the last ten years in promoting physical activity and physical literacy within the community of Umea in Sweden. This work has now grown to an international level and a wider range of opportunities, that link the work of both organisations, has developed more recently. Both parties agreed that it would be mutually beneficial to look to work more collaboratively over developments related to creating engaging physical activity environ ..read more

Invitation to apply to join a global team of consultants, practitioners and researchers. The International Physical Literacy Association (IPLA) is a registered charity in England, formed in 2014 to promote and encourage the adoption of physical literacy across the life course. We have an exciting opportunity for you, if you have significant experience related to the promotion and understanding of physical literacy and be able to offer their experience, expertise, time, and enthusiasm to the IPLA. The roles will require a commitment to support the aims of the association in relation to advocacy ..read more

Dear IPLA Member, You might not be aware of the Inner Development Goals, so we would very much like to share the concept with you because we see a very close link between the outcomes of this approach and our own physical literacy approach, particularly in the “affective” domain. The IDGs are essentially a suite of behaviours and personal attributes that have been determined to either support the achievement of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals or would be accrued by individuals as a result of working towards them. In essence, like physical literacy, this is about human development and hu ..read more

Please join us for our AGM online on the 14th of November 2023 at 15:00 BMT. To join the meeting please click this link or copy the following link into your diary. https://us06web.zoom.us/j/4122846746?pwd=NnhIYmM4cE9SWEdwRlNML21MUGRvUT09 The documents relating to the AGM are available to download below: IPLA-AGM-2022-Minutes.docx (2 downloads) IPLA-AGM-2023-Agenda.docx (4 downloads) IPLA-AGM-2023-Motions-Form.docx (1 download) The post IPLA AGM 2023 appeared first on IPLA ..read more

Context Mumbai Municipal Corporation provides free education to more than 300000 under-privileged children (mostly from slum areas). In the last decade, health and fitness issues have not been improving, for many children. Also, there is a growing increase in social and mental issues, which impact on wellbeing, especially post covid. Providing appropriate physical education that looks to develop each child from a physical, emotional, social, and cognitive dimension, supports the development of physical literacy. To holistically develop these children, a program of physical literacy training fo ..read more

Back in February we posted the first of a planned monthly release of content from our 2021 “Physical Literacy – Cultural Connection Across the World” Conference, featuring the keynote from our President, Dr Margaret Whitehead and links to supplementary Q & A for members. This month we are focussing on content related to physical literacy practice in community settings, including presentations on the related work being carried out by some of our event sponsors (below). These videos include a look at an Early Years intervention from the USA (https://vimeo.com/686878658/112ba7ca6c), an active ..read more

In late July the IPLA Research Café welcomed Professor Lisa Barnett and Dr Emiliano Mazzoli from Deakin University, Australia, and attendees from around the world. The recording is now available for IPLA members. Professor Lisa Barnett is a senior member of the Institute for Physical Activity and Nutrition (IPAN) at Deakin University. Her internationally leading work focuses on developing ways to measure children’s physical literacy and how to improve physical literacy via partnerships with industry and researchers from multiple countries. She was a key player in the development of the Austral ..read more

We’re delighted to announce that Professor Lisa Barnett and Dr Emiliano Mazzoli, both from Deakin University, will be joining us to discuss the PL-C Quest. Following the Australian Physical Literacy Framework, The PL-C Quest assesses children’s self-perceived physical literacy. The measurement properties of this tool were reported in this recent paper. As always, the Research Café will be 30 minutes. To accommodate for the international audience, the session will take place at 9pm (GMT+1) on July 26th. This will be 6am on the 27th for our speakers and guests in Melbourne, and I would like ..read more