NEP 2020
National Education Policy
Ends the separation between curricular and co-curricular activity. Sport is written into the curriculum itself.
A curricular subject needs a scheme of work. The policy does not write one.
The tool
THE
PE PORTAL
A teacher standing on a field with a phone builds a full lesson from whatever equipment is in the store room, speaks fitness scores instead of typing them, and sees the class banded by performance. The year plan behind it holds the prescribed strand ratio exactly.
Where it sits
THE POLICY IS WRITTEN. THE DELIVERY IS THE GAP.
Four documents govern what physical education is supposed to be in an Indian school. Each asks for something the school then has to produce on its own, and every one of those pieces of work lands on the same person.
NCF-SE 2023
National Curriculum Framework for School Education
Names Physical Education and Well-being as a curricular area in its own right, across every stage of the 5+3+3+4 structure.
Naming an area does not staff it, and the early stages are exactly where specialist staffing is thinnest.
NCERT
Khel Yatra, Grade 6
Teaches Kho-Kho and Handball by name as the fundamental-skill games, alongside motor fitness and yoga.
The content exists. Turning it into two hundred planned periods is left to whoever has the period.
CBSE
Health and Physical Education, Grade IX and X
Fixes four strands at 100 marks across 200 periods, and four assessed aspects inside the games strand.
Those proportions have to be recalculated for whatever year length a school actually runs, by hand, every year.
The scheme the planner has to hold
100 MARKS ACROSS 200 PERIODS
CBSE’s reference year for Grades IX and X. The planner never hardcodes 90/50/50/10. It holds these proportions and scales them to the year you enter, so a 32-week year and a 44-week year both come out exact.
200 periods
90
Games and Sports, 90
Physical Education Teacher
50
Health and Fitness, 50
PET / Yoga Teacher / Health and Wellness Coordinator
50
SEWA, 50
All teachers
10
Health and Activity Card, 10
Physical Education Teacher
100 marks
50
Games and Sports, 50
25
Health and Fitness, 25
25
SEWA, 25
The Health and Activity Card carries no marks and ten periods, which is why it appears above and not here. Both totals are summed straight from the rows, so this cannot drift out of agreement with itself. It is the discipline the planner applies to a school year.
Four assessed aspects rotate across the year inside the games strand: discipline and sportsmanship, skill and technique, participation and motivation, and improvement.
Units run as contiguous blocks, with the four aspects rotating across them, so a year covers all four and no single one gets assessed on repeat and called a scheme.
What it does
EIGHT THINGS, ALL OF THEM ON THE FIELD
01
A lesson from whatever is in the store room
Enter the equipment you actually have. Get back a warm-up, a main activity and a cool-down, timed to the period you are teaching.
Not a list of games. A lesson, with minutes held back for the business of moving forty children between shapes. That transition time is the first thing a plan loses and the first thing a real period spends.
02
Every activity sits inside a named teaching model
Ten recognised instructional models, each carrying its originator, so a lesson observation can cite the approach by name.
The software chooses the model, not the AI. Asked to pick, a language model returns Teaching Games for Understanding almost every time, because that is where its training data is thickest. The choice is made by a deterministic rotation instead, which is auditable and varied across a term by construction.
03
The method changes on its own
Tomorrow’s session uses different approaches without anyone asking. The rotation seed comes from the date.
Checked across 14,000 generated sessions: every duration by every focus by 400 seeds. Phase minutes always sum to the period exactly, no approach ever repeats inside one session, no two consecutive sessions draw the same trio, and all ten models are reached within a term.
04
A drawn plan of the ground, for every activity
Cones, players, balls, goals, zones and movement arrows, seen from above.
The model never writes the drawing. It returns coordinates; the app owns every pixel of the markup. And the picture is never the only copy of the information. Each diagram carries a text legend and a caption, so a teacher using a screen reader gets the layout in words.
05
Scores spoken, not typed
Say the result. It arrives as a structured record, on a field, in the sun, with a phone in one hand.
Speech is recognised on the device itself, and no audio is uploaded anywhere. And the microphone is never load-bearing: the transcript stays editable, so a browser without speech support, or a mis-heard name, still leaves a way through.
06
A year plan that holds the prescribed ratio exactly
CBSE’s four strands, scaled to your school year, summing to the period count without drift.
The arithmetic is never done by the AI. Periods are apportioned by a largest-remainder method, verified across all 259 combinations of 12 to 48 weeks by 1 to 7 periods. Independent rounding loses a period on some year lengths, and a plan shown to an inspector cannot be approximately right.
07
Training that knows one sport from another
Technical progressions paced across the weeks, conditioning chosen for the sport, and the faults a teacher will actually see, each with its cue.
The sport knowledge is held in code, not requested from a model. Without it an AI writes the same paragraph for Kho-Kho and volleyball with the nouns swapped. With it, the Kho-Kho unit trains pole turns and chain chasing while the volleyball unit trains the platform pass and court rotation.
08
Built to be used outdoors
Large controls, hard edges, and states named in words as well as coloured.
Every control is at least 48 pixels tall. Borders are solid black on white with offset shadows, because soft shadows and thin grey rules disappear in direct sunlight. Performance bands are labelled, not merely coloured.
The ten teaching models
AN APPROACH A TEACHER CAN CITE
Every activity the portal generates is designed inside one of these, and the card shows which: its name, its originator, what the teacher does, and which assessed aspects it evidences. Direct Instruction never lands in a cool-down. Movement Education never runs the main game. Each model declares the phases it can carry.
| Model | Traceable to |
|---|---|
| Teaching Games for Understanding | Bunker & Thorpe, 1982 |
| Game Sense | den Duyn / Australian Sports Commission, 1997 |
| Constraints-Led Approach | Newell, 1986; Davids, Button & Bennett, 2008 |
| Sport Education | Siedentop, 1994 |
| Direct Instruction | Rosenshine; in PE via Metzler, 2011 |
| Cooperative Learning | Johnson & Johnson; Dyson & Casey, 2012 |
| Teaching Personal and Social Responsibility | Hellison, 1978 / 2011 |
| Movement Education | Laban’s movement framework, 1948 |
| Skill Themes | Graham, Holt/Hale & Parker, Children Moving |
| Inquiry-Based Learning | Inquiry Teaching, in Metzler, 2011 |
Who it helps
THREE PEOPLE, THREE DIFFERENT ANSWERS
The teacher
Planning stops being the part of the job you take home.
- A period’s lesson designed in the time it takes to walk to the field.
- The approach and its originator printed on the card, ready for an observation.
- Scores logged by voice while the class is still in front of you.
- Variety across a term without having to engineer it yourself.
The head of school
A record that survives being asked about.
- A year plan whose period counts add up exactly to the year you entered.
- Every prescribed figure traceable to the circular it came from.
- Class progress banded by performance, so support goes where it is needed.
- Inclusion notes for children with special needs written into each unit.
The student
More of the period spent moving.
- Sessions designed around the equipment the school actually owns.
- Activities built inside a named teaching model.
- Fitness tracked over time instead of measured once and filed.
- A written progression, so improvement is something you can see.
What it does not do yet
THE FITNESS BATTERY IS INCOMPLETE
CBSE’s Health and Activity Card prescribes eleven tests. This is where the portal stands against them.
6
Implemented
5
Not built yet
The five
- Partial Curl-Up
- 600 m Run
- Flamingo Balance
- Plate Tapping
- Alternate Hand Wall Toss
Standing Broad Jump currently stands in for CBSE’s Standing Vertical Jump, so one of the six is a substitution for the prescribed test. Closing the gap means a schema migration and a new set of banding thresholds. It is written down in the product’s own documentation, in the open, and if a complete battery is what decides whether the portal is useful to your school, say so and we will tell you honestly where it sits.