My Personal Best: developing

students’ character & resilience through a ‘taught and caught’ approach to curriculum PE

Will Swaithes - Head of PE, YST

Arrival activity: Card sort discussion…

Q1. Sort the cards into 2 piles - 1 with key outcomes achieved through PE & 1 with outcomes that PE does not provide Q2. Filter the pile to get TOP 5 outcomes o PE (note down the 5 card codes)

My Personal Best: developing

students’ character & resilience through a ‘taught and caught’ approach to curriculum PE

Will Swaithes - Head of PE, YST Arrival activity: Card sort discussion…

Q1. Sort the cards into 2 piles - 1 with key outcomes achieved through PE & 1 with outcomes

that PE does not provide Q2. Filter the pile to get TOP 5 outcomes o PE

(note down the 5 card codes) Q3. Sort the cards into 2 piles – 1 with the

outcomes you explicitly teach in PE & the others you don’t … filter to TOP 5 & note down

Q4. Sort cards into 2 piles – the aspects you formally assess in PE & those you don’t (again note

down the codes)

• Examples from schools • Examples to share and develop

Teaching Life Skills explicitly through a multi ability approach in Physical

Education

Rationale for My Personal Best

Education: skills for learning

DfE: “Character Education”

Employment: skills for work BCC: “88% of firms believe school leavers are not prepared for work”

Society: skills for citizenship DfE: “British values” as part of SMSC and Ofsted Inspection Framework

Life: skills for personal health and wellbeing PHE: links between health and wellbeing and attainment

Question: Is developing character & employability skills a priority in your setting? Why?

What The My Personal Best Intervention includes…

Professional Learning Workshop

Follow up Workshop

Action Research Guide

Monitoring & Evaluation Tools

My PB Life Skills -

3 sets for Students

and Teachers

Learner Cards

What is my PB?

Novice

Apprentice

Skilled in PE

Skilled in LIFE

My PB Teacher cards

P – E – S – skills: What is the Big Task/Question?

What will I look for?

My PB Teacher cards

My PB in PE

My PB in LIFE

Some of our findings to date

Teachers valued the whole PE department professional learning and having time to reflect on their practice.

Investigate what a school did & share

Paired Task:

1. Review the poster presentation from one of our 25 pilot schools

2. Prepare to share what they did & what they learnt with the group

Extension: Prepare any further questions

for clarification

Some of our findings to date

Across the 25 pilot schools 4870 pupils in years 7-10 are experiencing the My PB approach

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Students ‘get it’ – They are beginning to articulate what values they learn in PE

Teachers perceived that pupils’ Resilience (76%) Listening (67%) Responsibility (65%) have shown greatest improvement

65% of the teachers say that engagement in PE lessons has improved 57% say that enjoyment of physical activity has improved 55% say that participation in physical activity has improved 53% say that behaviour in PE lessons has improved as a result of taking part in My Personal Best

What teachers say….

“Those who tried to shy away from PE are

becoming more confident and giving each of the activities a go. They are using key words in school following PE lessons such as resilience. Pupils are more aware of the need to display personal qualities. Given me a different angle on teaching PE which is very relevant to the intake of students that we teach. It has made me think of different ideas and approaches to help the transition for Year 7 students between KS2 and KS3. Different outlook and approach to PE lessons, allowing those who are not necessarily gifted in PE to achieve well

“It has given me the opportunity to

focus on the life skills that are so transferable into other aspects of life.

It has made me reflect on my teaching practice.

Far more rewarding to teach

What pupils say….

“the staff talk to you about how you can use things in PE into

actual life and try to get you to be more confident.

It kind of showed what we were lacking and what we needed to improve and what we were good at and strengths and weaknesses.

It also effects life in general because in PE you learn with other people and sportsmanship and that comes across in maybe for applying in jobs and stuff because you have to work well.

resilience is something that is our responsibility... because people think you have to teach empathy…it’s only you who can actually do it and only you that can make it happen.