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SHAPE Weekly Newsletter

20th November 2024


Welcome!

Be sure to check out the ‘Other News’ section in this week’s newsletter! With Christmas just around the corner, we have some exciting School Games Christmas events coming up, and we would love for you to get involved.

 

Warm regards, SHAPE Learning Partnership Team


Actions For This Term

 

TERM 2

  1. Have you looked at your PE, school sport and physical activity offer through the gender lens?    (Reflect on your offer in terms of activities, stereotypes, interests, barriers to participation.  Are girls and boys afforded the same access and opportunities? How do you know?)

  2. Have you devised a clear plan for your 60 active minutes offer?    (Consider a 360 reflection of breaks, lunch, lessons, clubs.  Is this strategically planned for and carefully constructed to provide opportunities for all to be active? What do the staff / pupils want and need?)

  3. Have you identified and planned for the professional development needs of your staff?    (What are the strengths and areas for development of the staff team based on the demands of the curriculum and wider offer?  Have you conducted an audit / needs analysis and identified any key training or mentoring?)

Other News

 

 

At the Derbyshire Cricket Foundation, they want to make cricket the most inclusive sport and for every person to say “cricket is a game for me”.


With this in mind, they have gained funding for 3 free all-year-round cricket opportunities in the Chesterfield area.

Wicketz Hub at Mary Swanwick Primary School (ages 8-19)

Street Cricket Club at Hasland Hall (ages 8-15)

Girls Only Street Club at Outwood Academy Newbold (Ages 8-15)

Attached are the posters for each venue and if you are interested in joining, please use the QR code, or contact pete.boot@dcfcricket.com

If you could send out the posters to parents/guardians, or put them up around your school, we would really appreciate it.

If your school is interested in cricket activities, please contact james.colton@dcfcricket.com

 

School Swimming Charter

Sign up to the School Swimming and Water Safety Charter

 

 

Members of the School Swimming and Water Safety Charter will:

  • Gain exclusive access to an extensive set of resources and advice to help improve lesson quality and impact.
  • Receive regular updates, tips and news to keep your lessons fun and exciting.

Schools must be registered (for Free) to access the free downloadable certificates.

Please click here to explore our dedicated School Swimming and Water Safety Charter website, where you can register to access our free digital resources.

 

School Games Santa Dash 2024

BOOK YOUR PLACE HERE

 

School Games Live - Christmas Special

REGISTER HERE

School Games Live is back yet again by popular demand! With over 30,000 participants taking part in the last 5 events, we have decided to go even bigger and better than the last! We’re beaming the event LIVE across the UK!!

Our friends at County Durham Sport are inviting you to participate in our School Games Live Christmas Special via Zoom!!

The session is split up into 3 x 15-minute active fitness sessions on Friday 13th December 2024 from 10:30am – which can be performed in a hall, classroom or any other appropriate space.

Sessions will run every 20 minutes from 10:30am. Feel free to join for the full hour or drop in and out as you please.

To enable us to gather information on participant numbers and area specific data could you please fill in the registration form via the link above.

We look forward to seeing you all on the screen on Friday 13th December 2024 ready to get active!

Meeting ID: 895 7829 9868

Passcode: 864117

**We advise joining the event on 1 or 2 devices per school/key stage when and where possible, the event only allows a certain number of devices to access the stream, so joining classes together or attending in a hall as a whole school is the best way to join and avoid disappointment**

 

Wildcats Girls Football Sessions

Please see the attached flyer for the Wild Cats Girls Football sessions at Brookfield Community School which take place every Sunday.  It's a great opportunity for girls who want to give football a go in a fun and friendly environment.  If you could send this out to your parents and put it on your school's noticeboard.

WILDCATS FLYER

New for this year is the Squad Girls Football, available for 12-16 year old girls.  If you could display and send out the attached flyer with the Wildcats flyer to parents.

SQUAD GIRLS

 

Resources

Youth voice toolkit

The Youth Sport Trust youth voice toolkit has had a refresh! The toolkit was co-designed with young people during the 2023-24 academic year and includes a number of resources to help you engage young people in discussions. A particular highlight is the inclusive focus groups tool which provides specific guidance for practitioners on how to engage young people with SEND. Check out the toolkit here.

 

Health & Wellbeing

Two websites for you to explore which have excellent articles and resources on health and wellbeing.

  • THE HEALTH FOUNDATION
  • IMPACT ON URBAN HEALTH

Football League Tables

 

Y5/6 Mixed League

Y5/6 Girls League

 

Upcoming Events

 
EVENT DATE VENUE BOOK

Y1/2 Super Heroes Skills

26/11/24

Brookfield Community School

BOOK HERE

Y5/6 Girls League Football

29/11/24

Gosforth Fields

BOOK HERE

Y5/6 Mixed League Football

29/11/24

Gosforth Fields

BOOK HERE

Y5/6 Girls League Football

06/12/24

Brookfield Community School

BOOK HERE

Y5/6 Mixed Football

06/11/24

Brookfield Community School

BOOK HERE

Santa Dash

11/12/24

Tupton Hall School

BOOK HERE

       

CPD

 

Coaching Disabled Footballers Workshop

Workshop Title – How to adapt sessions?

Date – Thursday 5th of December 2024

Time – 18:30pm-20:00pm

Location – Online

 

 

REGISTER HERE

 

Inclusive PE

We are excited to share the release of the free Inclusive Physical Education e-learning course as part of the Inclusion 2024 programme investment. This course has 10 bite-size modules that have been designed to increase teachers’, teaching assistants, sports practitioners and the wider school workforce in the knowledge and confidence to deliver inclusive PE and school sport. The content has been redeveloped with the support of Leeds Beckett University and Lead Inclusion Schools to ensure the information is informative and relevant to practitioners. Each section contains an introduction, key facts, space for self-reflection on current practice, tips on how to improve your practice and a handy additional resource page. A certificate is provided after each module, in addition to the completion of all ten modules.

Hurry! This course is free for this academic year only, using the discount code Inclusion2024. Sign up here

 

SEND Shooting Stars

Disney inspired Shooting Stars SEND is a programme that has been designed for schools to inspire young people with SEND to engage in their active minutes through football. The programme provides a suite of resource cards that include ready-made session plans which include fun, inclusive activities for pupils encouraging the development of their fundamental movement skills. The resource cards have been created in consultation with the Youth Sport Trust's Lead Inclusion Schools with the aim of specifically engaging more young people with SEND in physical activity and football. 

The virtual training sessions below have been created to demonstrate how SEND Shooting Stars can be implemented within your school through bringing the resource to life. Once the training has been completed, the resources will be sent to you directly.

  • SEND Shooting Stars (2) - Thursday 5 December, 2:30-4:30pm, Virtual.  Sign up here
  • SEND Shooting Stars (3) - Tuesday 11 February, 2:30-4:30pm, Virtual.  Sign up here

 

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