Kev Weir - PE & Sports Coach

Kev Weir - PE & Sports Coach 👨‍🏫 Primary PE Teacher | Sports Coach
🏃Sharing daily coaching and PE ideas
⚽ Weekly football sessions in North Devon

18/09/2026

In sports, the best 12 year old rarely stays the best at 18. Often, early standouts just specialized too soon. Prioritize multisport play and fun to prevent burnout, because peaking too early usually backfires.

Putting aside other debates, are teams in leagues like the JPL playing up an age group just to jump ahead in formats?
18/09/2026

Putting aside other debates, are teams in leagues like the JPL playing up an age group just to jump ahead in formats?

17/09/2026

CROWN JEWELS 👑

Aim:
Develop visual awareness, evasion, attacking decisions and defending.

Setup:
Place hoops around the area with one player in each hoop. Put a cone or small object inside each hoop as the Crown Jewel. Everyone else starts as a thief.

Rules:
• Guards must protect the Crown Jewel while staying in their hoop.
• Thieves try to steal a jewel without being tagged.
• If tagged, move away and try a different hoop.
• If a thief steals the jewel, they swap places with the guard.

STEP:
S– Move hoops closer together or further apart.
T – Add a time limit or award points for successful steals.
E– Use different objects or coloured jewels worth different points.
P– Change the number of guards and thieves.

Assessment questions:
• How can you approach without being tagged?
• When is the best time to try and steal?
• How can the guard protect the jewel effectively?
• What can you see that helps you choose which hoop to attack?

Save Crown Jewels for your next PE lesson. 👑

A common challenge coaches face is to help players understand positions. Here's an example of how I help our children ha...
17/09/2026

A common challenge coaches face is to help players understand positions.

Here's an example of how I help our children have a better understanding

Each position comes with simple instructions for their role with areas of responsibility.

Players keep this and can refer to them at any time at home, training or matchdays.

16/09/2026

7v7 playing out from the back.

16/09/2026

This is something I’ve been thinking about, and I’ll be clear from the start this is more of a theory than something I can prove.

We often hear stories about players being “spotted late”.

But I wonder how many of those players were actually outside the academy system altogether.

A player might sign professionally with one club at 16, but could have already spent years in another academy.

Because research can tell us the age a player joined a particular academy, but that doesn’t automatically tell us the age they first entered the academy system.

So the question I keep coming back to is:

How many professional players were genuinely still only playing grassroots football at 14 or 15 before being picked up for the first time?

If a large proportion of future professionals have already been identified somewhere by a relatively young age, it raises a bigger question:

Are clubs really finding late developers or are they mostly moving around players who were already in the system?

And if that is the case, what happens to the child who develops later?

That’s the bit I’d be interested to hear from academy coaches, scouts and people working in talent identification about.

Are there enough genuine routes in for late developers or does football still place too much weight on who gets identified first?

Looks like my posts have been restricted. 🚔Apparently sharing free games, coaching ideas, session plans and tips for tea...
15/09/2026

Looks like my posts have been restricted. 🚔

Apparently sharing free games, coaching ideas, session plans and tips for teachers and coaches is now considered dangerous content. 🚨

So if you're seeing this, do me a favour and drop a comment below. 👇

I'm curious whether my posts are actually reaching people anymore or if they're disappearing into the social media void.

If you've ever used one of my ideas in a lesson or training session, let me know which your kids have loved the most.

Let's see how far this post can travel.

I’ve delivered coach education workshops in all sorts of settings from grassroots clubs and volunteer coaches to Olympic...
15/09/2026

I’ve delivered coach education workshops in all sorts of settings from grassroots clubs and volunteer coaches to Olympic venues and experienced coaches.

The audience might change, but the aim stays the same: practical coach development people can actually use.

I’m looking forward to the next one in just a few weeks.

If you’re a club, school or organisation looking to book a workshop around games based coaching, inclusion, engagement or session design, send me a message to discuss dates and options.

Do you coach children? Learn more about child-first coaching in this free webinar on Tuesday 22nd 👇Child-first coaching ...
15/09/2026

Do you coach children? Learn more about child-first coaching in this free webinar on Tuesday 22nd 👇

Child-first coaching is transforming the way we support children and young people. It's about creating an inclusive, rights-respecting environment where every child can thrive.

By prioritising children's rights, child-first coaching builds the foundation for a lifelong love of being active. In this online classroom, you'll learn what child-first coaching really means, explore its core principles, and discover practical strategies to bring these ideas to life in your sessions.

📅Tuesday 22 September 18:00 - 21:00
💻Online

🖋️Register:

https://www.ukcoaching.org/courses/coaching-a-child-first-approach/

15/09/2026

If I showed you what this game looked like on paper, it would look nothing like this clip.

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