{"id":318128,"date":"2025-11-30T07:43:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-30T07:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/318128\/"},"modified":"2025-11-30T07:43:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-30T07:43:10","slug":"pe-teachers-need-more-education-on-disabilities-and-sport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/318128\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;PE teachers need more education on disabilities and sport&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A top British wheelchair tennis player has started a campaign to make physical education (PE) more inclusive for children and young people with disabilities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ruby Bishop, 21, from Norwich, said she faced huge barriers to taking part in PE at school but is now rated the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lta.org.uk\/fan-zone\/british-tennis-players\/ruby-bishop\/\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">fourth-best player in Great Britain, external<\/a> and has represented her country at global sporting events.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She has called on PE teachers to have a better understanding of the sports needs of children with special education needs and disabilities (Send).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A government spokeswoman said every child should benefit from quality sport both inside and outside of school, and that its Inclusion 2028 programme helped provide training for staff involved in providing PE for those with Send.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A top British wheelchair tennis player has started a campaign to make physical education (PE) more inclusive for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":318129,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":{"0":"post-318128","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=318128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318128\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/318129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=318128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=318128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=318128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}