Airlie and Heath began studying together at RMIT University in 2003, completing a Bachelor of Applied Science (Physical Education). They quickly became best mates after realising their shared loves for basketball, fitness, and creating fun activities for their friends and family to join in. Heath made fun of Airlie’s laminated folders and extensive pencil case, and Airlie provided Heath with a pen in each class – it was a friendship designed to last!

Since then, and many Uni Games later, they became qualified personal trainers and started Redback Fitness together in 2007. They setup an amazing boot camp program, incorporating fun fitness games and challenges for residents in the northern suburbs of Melbourne.

Both also began their teaching careers in 2007 in government secondary schools. They taught across all year levels and quickly began taking on various leadership roles. As they began losing all their planning time to other responsibilities, they were on the hunt for quality Health and PE resources. They couldn’t find one place that had everything they needed; it always meant hours of Google searching to find suitable resources, and then more time to modify them to suit their students. They realised their colleagues were all doing the same, and when they got back in touch with their uni friends, they said it was identical in their schools – regardless of whether they were in a primary, secondary, government, catholic and/or independent school.

Airlie and Heath loved creating their own resources and sharing these and other amazing ones they found with their faculties and PE networks. In 2012, PE Made Easy began in order to share quality resources and deliver workshops and consultancy for Health & PE teachers.

For a list of our previous workshops and consultancy, click HERE