An email was sent out on Monday 24th February to all the schools who are taking part in this year's Primary Dance Festival.  Please make sure that you look at this carefully and if you have any questions please don't hesitate to contact us.

IMPORTANT!! The deadline for information to be returned to us is the 6th March.  

Biggest Ever Football Session is here!

Celebrate International Women’s Day by signing up for the Biggest Ever Football Session! This incredible national event is the perfect way to champion equality for girls on Friday, 7th March 2025.

If you are planning on doing any activities this Friday, please make your pledge here by scanning the QR Code below.

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Have You Got Britain's Funniest Class?

Get ready to flex those funny bones - Britain's Funniest Class is back, and Beano for Schools want your school to join in on the laughter! 

To kick things off, they have teamed up with Place2Be to bring you a brand-new lesson, ‘Move Your Mood’. This exciting lesson shows kids how physical movement can boost their mood, brainpower, and even help them crack a smile. It’s all about feeling blamtastic while having fun! 

Prepare for some wiggling, giggling, and joke-writing mayhem! They want your class to get moving and spark their imaginations as they come up with the funniest, most original gags for the competition. Need some help crafting the perfect joke? Check out their manual of mischief here, and download our lesson plan here. 

Here’s the best part: your class will be in with the chance of winning some blam prizes, including

• A Beano illustration of the class with their teacher 
• A 'Golden Gnasher' medal for every pupil in the class 
• A fun-filled Beano Day for the class 
• A one-year Beano subscription for every pupil in the class 
• A Beano comic school subscription 
• One copy of Beano's boomic 'The Day We Got Uploaded' published by Farshore for every pupil in the class 

Want to enter? Of course, you do! The search for the funniest class in the country starts now and will run until Friday, April 4th, 2025. 

Head to their competition page and submit your class's best original jokes here. The Beano mischief makers will shortlist the top ten finalists, and then it’s over to the public to vote for their favourite class. So, who’s got the best jokes in Britain? It might just be you! 

Submit your class's jokes today! Class dismissed on April 4th, 2025.

Primary PE Network Consultation

24/04/2025 - 12:15 - Chesterfield FC - BOOK HERE

Lawn Tennis Association Teacher Training

The LTA has organised an LTA Youth Primary Teachers course to take place at Graves Health & Sports Centre on 25^th April – 10.00am – 12.00pm.

This opportunity is being offered to teachers in Chesterfield and NE Derbyshire.  Any teacher where the school hasn’t previously attended the course will receive a £250 voucher for equipment or follow-on team-teaching support. If a teacher from a school has previously attended, and activated their first voucher in 2020 or 2021, then there is now a second voucher available which will have a value of £150 which can be redeemed against 5 hours of team teaching with an LTA Accredited Coach or equipment from the Zsig schools’ collection.

To book onto the course, the teachers must follow the 2-step process below:  

1. Sign up to LTA Youth Schools first

           www.lta.org.uk/schools

2. Then book onto the relevant course via this link:

           LTA Primary Teachers Course - 25th April - Graves.

Supporting PE: An introduction for Teaching Assistants eLearning

This course has been made possible through Inclusion 2024 which is a Department for Education funded grant that is helping to increase participation of children with additional needs in PE and school sport.

This short course is designed to improve your confidence in supporting the delivery of inclusive PE and to help you create outstanding experiences for every pupil, regardless of their abilities.

As this is an eLearning course, you will need a working internet connection to access this content. For an optimal experience, we recommend using the latest browser version.

As part of the Inclusion 2024 programme, Activity Alliance are offering schools free access to this training. Please use the discount code Inclusion2024

ENROL 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