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SHAPE Weekly Newsletter

29th September 2025


Welcome!

The Cross Country Race Series kicked off last Wednesday – thank you to all the fantastic runners who took part!
We’re looking forward to welcoming even more participants this week.

We’d especially love to see some Year 5/6 girls join the race, as unfortunately there were no entries in that category last time.

To help spread the word, we’d really appreciate it if schools could send a reminder to parents and carers with all the event details.

 

And finally, don’t forget to check out the CPD section for some great inclusion opportunities coming up.

 

Remember, if you have any news, achievements, or shout-outs that you would like us to share with our affiliated schools, please email l.caton@brookfieldcs.org.uk and we will include them in the newsletter.

Warm regards, SHAPE Learning Partnership Team


AFFILIATION BROCHURE 2025-26


Actions For This Term

 

Autumn Term

Strategic Planning

  • Refresh PE policy and create/update your PE action development plan.
  • If you haven’t already, meet with Paul to complete this. 
  • Book here Calendly
  • Review and update PE curriculum map for breadth, progression and inclusion.
  • Align PE goals with whole-school priorities (wellbeing, behaviour, attendance).
  • Ensure PE supports 60 active minutes/day and 2 hours/week of quality PE.
  • Select credit allocation to maximise affiliation and map out dates with India. 
  • Book here Calendly

Staff Development

  • Conduct staff confidence audit (planning, delivery, assessment).
  • Schedule CPD or peer mentoring (focus on dance, inclusion, assessment for example).
  • Share clear expectations for PE delivery and safeguarding protocols.
  • Promote use of AfPE’s Safe Practice guidance.

Operational Setup

  • Finalise PE timetable and space allocation (hall, field, playground).
  • Audit, organise, and replenish PE equipment.
  • Update risk assessments (including swimming, off-site visits, external coaches).
  • Confirm insurance and compliance with legal safety standards – Especially gymnastics equipment and external coaches.

Pupil Engagement

  • Launch inclusive extra-curricular clubs and track participation.
  • Plan for School Games events and inter-school competitions.
  • Gather pupil voice to shape enrichment and curriculum.
  • Use Koboca National Survey.  Access this via your Koboca Dashboard.
  • Promote active travel and classroom movement breaks.

Monitoring & Impact

  • Set up simple assessment systems (physical literacy, effort, skill progression).
  • Monitor and report on PE & Sport Premium spending (window for 2024-25 reopened in September).
  • Celebrate PE achievements via assemblies, newsletters, or social media.
  • Begin planning for termly impact review and stakeholder reporting.

 

Last Chance To Book

 

Y3/4 Dogeball Festival - 07/10/2025 - Newbold - BOOK HERE

Y3/4 Dogeball Festival - 08/10/2025 - Hasland Hall - BOOK HERE

Y3/4 Dogeball Festival - 10/10/2025 - Tupton Hall - BOOK HERE

 

RE-PLAY - Re-home Your Unwanted School Equipment

 

Our new initiative encourages primary schools to exchange equipment instead of throwing it away. By sharing resources, we can reduce waste, support each other, and give items a second life—helping both our schools and the environment.

If you have any equipment that you feel someone else could use, please complete the live form below.  We will then share this with all of you in the Weekly News update.

RE-PLAY LIVE SPREADSHEET

 

KS2 Cross Country Series - League Table

 

 

Y5/6 Girls & Mixed Football League Table

 

Y5/6 Girls Football League

 

Y5/6 Mixed Football League

 

Other News

 

Koboca’s National Physical Activity and Wellbeing Survey

As a sports partnership, we want to make sure our offer reflects what your pupils want and that we target and support those who need it most. To do this, gathering pupil voice is essential – it’s also a major priority from both the DfE and Sport England.

We’d love your school to take part this year in Koboca’s National Physical Activity and Wellbeing Survey. Over 85,000 pupils took part last year. The survey takes less than 15 minutes and will:

  1. Provide evidence to support your Sports Premium funding reporting and Ofsted.
  2. Make applying for School Games Mark easier, particularly Gold and Platinum.
  3. Give pupils a voice in shaping our partnership offer.
  4. Help you identify pupils who would benefit most from targeted programmes.
  5. Provide insight into your pupils’ activity levels, wellbeing, and involvement in community sport.

Important to note: No personal data ever leaves your school account. You can see pupil-level responses, but as a partnership we can only access headline data.

How to get involved:

  1. Register HERE for Koboca if you haven't already.  (It is free for SHAPE members)
  2. Log into your Koboca account and go to the My Surveys tab.
  3. Next to the Primary Physical Activity and Wellbeing Survey, click Copy Link.
  4. Share this link with pupils via your usual platform (shared area)

Support for delivery:

There are videos you can play on your white board to take the pupils through the survey.

  • Year 1/2 tutorial https://youtu.be/p5zouAMTcNQ
  • Year 3/4 tutorial https://youtu.be/LVSxOz7VjuU
  • Year 5 tutorial https://youtu.be/YaNlqHaYP70
  • Year 6 tutorial https://youtu.be/dH3AIHCNsgs 
  • Quick 3-minute guide on how to use the survey reports: Watch here
  • More information about the national survey: Click here

Deadline: Please complete surveys by October half-term, so we can use the data to shape delivery for the rest of the year.

Thank you in advance for supporting this – it’s a fantastic way to ensure pupil voice directly influences PE, sport and wellbeing opportunities. If you need any help, just get in touch.

 

 

Primary Cross Country Race Series – Autumn 2025

Open to all pupils in Years 3–6

We are delighted to invite your school to take part in our New Primary Cross Country Race Series, held across four weekday evenings this autumn. It’s a brilliant opportunity for children to challenge themselves, represent their school and enjoy the spirit of competition in a safe, supportive environment.

PRIMARY CROSS-COUNTRY RACE SERIES INFORMATION

Next Race: Wednesday 1st October 2025

 

Hockey Development Opportunity for Primary Schools

We’re thrilled to announce that our joint application with Chesterfield Hockey Club has secured funding through the Sport England Movement Fund. Building on our successful pilot in 2024–25, we’re expanding hockey provision across local schools with a fully funded 6-week programme.

Schools will benefit from:

  • Access to equipment via a loan scheme
  • Ready-to-use session plans
  • 6-week delivery programme from a dedicated hockey coach using a graduated team-teach model (I teach - We Teach - You Teach)

This initiative aims to break down common barriers to hockey in primary schools—such as lack of equipment, teacher confidence, and safety concerns—and will link directly to upcoming festivals and competitions in the autumn and spring terms.

Initial funding is available for 14 schools. To express interest, please email: p.ryan@brookfieldcs.org.uk 

 

Free Balance Bike Initiative for Schools

A fully funded programme that brings the benefits of cycling to your school

  • Develop physical literacy, balance and fitness
  • Teach vital life skills and road safety in EYFS and KS1
  • Build healthy habits and overall physical and mental wellbeing

What is Get Cycling in Schools?

Get Cycling in Schools is a fully funded programme created by The Bikeability Trust, the experts responsible for the Department for Transport’s Bikeability cycle training. This new, innovative programme equips primary-school teaching staff across England to deliver cycle skills to their pupils in PE lessons or during extra-curricular provision.

Staff training is free, takes just half a day at a local venue, and is available for up to two staff members per school.  There are only 14 places available, so please register your interest below as soon as possible.  Your school will also receive a fleet of six balance bikes and helmets to enable all pupils, regardless of whether they own a bike, to take part.

After completing the training, staff will be able to teach pupils to balance, glide and pedal using a combination of online e-learning, curriculum-aligned resources and practical lessons. The training empowers all participants to effectively teach basic cycling skills regardless of their level of experience and ability.

 

REGISTER YOUR INTEREST HERE

 

Upcoming Events - Term 1

 
EVENT DATE VENUE BOOK
Y3/4 Dodgeball Festival 08/10/2025 Hasland Hall BOOK HERE
Y5/6 Girls Football 10/10/2025 Brookfield Community School BOOK HERE
Y5/6 Mixed Football 10/10/2025 Brookfield Community School BOOK HERE
Y5/6 Girls Football 17/10/2025 Staveley MWFC BOOK HERE
Y5/6 Mixed Football 17/10/2025 Staveley MWFC BOOK HERE
Y1/2 SPARK Movement Festival 20/10/2025 Eckington School BOOK HERE
Y1/2 SPARK Movement Festival 23/10/2025 Brookfield Community School BOOK HERE
Y5/6 Girls Football 24/10/2025 Gosforth Fields BOOK HERE
Y5/6 Mixed Football 24/10/2025 Gosforth Fields BOOK HERE

Club Opportunities

 

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

 

SQUAD Girls Football Sessions

Squad Girls Football, available for 11-14 year old girls.  A fun, non-competitive way to play football locally with friends, old and new. Whether you’re completely new to the sport, are looking to transition from Wildcats, or simply want to give it a go, Squad Girls’ Football is designed to help develop skills and build confidence, whilst encouraging girls to play their way.

SQUAD GIRLS

CPD

Tops Sportability 

Welcome to Top Sportsability

An online resource supporting inclusive physical activity, PE and school sport.

Top Sportsability Online Resources

TOP Sportsability is an online resource for schools and offers practical advice to teachers, learning support staff, and other sports practitioners. It consists of video clips and downloadable content showing ideas and strategies to support the inclusion of young disabled people in physical activity and is divided into five areas.

TOP Sportsability CPD

Suitable for: teachers, learning support staff, and other sports practitioners.

Equipping educators: to create a more inclusive offer to ensure that all young people have access to school sport and physical activity especially those with special educational needs and disability.

Supporting young people: with special educational needs and disabilities to be fully included and participating in sport and physical activity.

To find out more and/or sign up to group CPD session for your school 

 BOOK HERE 

Access discount code – YSTInclusion54

 

 

All About Autism - E-Learning

Developed by the Youth Sport Trust, and endorsed by the National Autistic Society, All About Autism is a digital and practical toolkit that builds upon knowledge of autism spectrum conditions (ASC) and some of the key considerations for making PE and sport inclusive to all.

For more information and the E-Learning guides, please follow this LINK

 

Inclusive PE E-Learning module

 

This course is designed to improve your confidence delivering inclusive PE and to help you create outstanding inclusive PE experiences for every pupil regardless of their abilities.

This course will help practitioners working in schools, colleges and other educational settings include pupils with Special Education Needs and Disabilities (SEND) – including teachers, teaching assistants, lunchtime supervisors and trainee teachers.

CIMSPA is the professional development body for the UK’s sport and physical activity sector. Their work is aimed at ensuring professional status for the workforce. Having our training endorsed by CIMSPA provides a stamp of approval, showing it has been designed around the knowledge, skills and competencies needed by sport and physical activity professionals. Upon completion of this course, learners receive 2.5 CIMSPA CPD point.

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 2028 programme, we are offering schools free access to this training. Your discount voucher is -  ipeinclusion2028

FREE WORKSHOP BOOK HERE

 

 

Supporting PE: An introduction for Teaching Assistants E-Learning

This course has been made possible through Inclusion 2028 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.

CIMSPA is the professional development body for the UK’s sport and physical activity sector. Their work is aimed at ensuring professional status for the workforce. Having our training endorsed by CIMSPA provides a stamp of approval, showing it has been designed around the knowledge, skills and competencies needed by sport and physical activity professionals. Upon completion of this course, learners receive 0.5 CIMSPA CPD point.

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 2028 programme, we are offering schools free access to this training. Your discount voucher is -   tainclusion2028

FREE WORKSHOP BOOK HERE

 

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