Presentation by Ashley Arnold, Ben Mills, Jacob McClarnon, James Roulston, Katie Stubbs & Stuart Biggs

*Development of Pop Lacrosse within Lincolnshire Schools

• Sustainable extra curricular clubs

• Create and support a Club – School link

• Plan and run a Schools Festival

• Increase participation in Lacrosse

*Project Aims and Objectives

*How does this link to Policy?• The Pupil Premium (Liberal Democrat) is annual funding

for sport provision within schools - £953 per eligible primary school child (GOV.UK, 2014).

• Schools can spend this funding how they wish and so it has created opportunities to add new sports and activities such as Lacrosse.

• Lacrosse seemed like the perfect sport to promote as it is mixed-gender and cheap to start up.

• This became a supplementary goal for our project – to encourage schools to spend their Pupil Premium on Pop Lacrosse equipment.

•Waddington Redwood Primary School

• St Peter at Gowts

*Schools

*Performance Evaluation

Communication

"The imparting or exchanging of information by speaking, writing, or using some other medium"

(Oxford Dictionary, 2014)

Social Media

• Easily accessible

• Make activities appear more visible

• Clearly track progress

(Flanagin, 2002; Treem and Leonardi, 2012)

Communication Breakdown

A failure to understand each other’s words or actions

Persuing the wrong action(s)

(Baron,1997)

The updating

of progress

The prioritisati

on and setting of

tasks

The overall clarity of

the project

A readjustmen

t of initial aims

Communication breakdown with the project stakeholder

As a result this affected:

*Research conducted•What we did? Needs analysis and questionnaires.

•Why we did it?Quick and precise feedback.

•How we developed the questionnaires?Sensitive to children.

(Gratton and Jones, 2004)

*Findings

Have you played Pop Lacrosse before?

Did you know about Pop Lacrosse before today?

Did you enjoy today's session?

Would you take part in a Pop Lacrosse school club?

Would you play in a Pop Lacrosse sports club outside of school?

0 20 40 60 80 100 120

NOYES

•Bar graph showing the results from the questionnaires carried out at St Peter at Gowts.

*Discussion

•Most pupils enjoyed the session

•Not many pupils knew about or played pop lacrosse

• Pupils would like a school club

• Pupils would like a club outside of school

•Can help hit National Curriculum aims (DfE, 2013).

•Can help Sport England’s (2014) School facilities and community sport Creating the win-win scenario

*Mechanisms in place

Both St.Peter at Gowts and Waddington Redwood have shown interest in setting up a school team:

• The teachers that have been involved with the project have been put in touch with one another about the idea of a game being arranged once they are completely confident.

More schools to be introduced to lacrosse:

• The feedback we have received from the two schools has been excellent, this word of mouth combined with the money available through the Pupil Premium only encourages the idea of introducing Pop Lacrosse to even more schools.

*Action Plan

Games/Festivals can be arranged:

•With more schools taking an interest and developing clubs, there is the possibility of arranging more games and a festival.

Games:

• School Games Organisers (SGO) are aware of other schools already playing Lacrosse within Lincoln meaning a variety of fixtures can be arranged.

Festival:

• Superzone Lacrosse Festival ran by SGO’s.

*Action Plan continued..Lincoln Lacrosse Club (LLC):

•Have shown interest in setting up a junior side with the possibility of more taster sessions.

Create a schools-club partnership:

• In the long term, the schools can act as feeders to LLC junior teams.

Teachers, SGO and LLC all work together:

•With all the relevant individuals combining forces, there is no reason as to why Pop Lacrosse provision should not further increase.

*Issues facing School Sport•Historical and cultural relevance: Lacrosse has not

held the same importance and esteem as other sports such as football, rugby or cricket in this country even though it has long standing roots (Fisher, 2002).

•Teachers reluctance to change: Contemporary ideas such as the introduction of regular Lacrosse sessions to curriculum can often be ‘washed-out’ during occupational/organisational socialisation (Zeichner & Tabachnik 1981).

•Gender issues: Lacrosse is not a gendered sport (Fisher, 2002).

*Have we met our aims???• Introduced Pop Lacrosse into two schools

• Failed to provide a Festival for schools

•Created the process a club school link

• Encouraged LLC to set up a Junior team

*References• Baron. (1997). Avoiding Communication Breakdowns.. Journal of Accountancy. 183 (2),

37-37

• DfE, 2013 https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/239040/PRIMARY_national_curriculum_-_Physical_education.pdf [Accessed 5/5/14]

• Fisher, D.M. (2002). Lacrosse: A History of the Game, Baltimore and London: John Hopkins University Press.

• Flanagin, (2002). The elusive benefits of the technological support of knowledge management. Management Communication Quarterly, 16, 242-248

• GOV.UK (2014). https://www.gov.uk/pupil-premium-information-for-schools-and-alternative-provision-settings [Accessed 5/5/14].

• Sport England 2014 http://www.sportengland.org/media/145348/School-facilities-and-community-sport.pdf [Accessed 5/5/14]

• Treem and Leonardi. (2012). Social Media Use in Organizations.Exploring the Affordances of Visibility, Editability, Persistence, and Association. 36 (1), 143-189

• Zeichner, K. M. & Tabachnik, B. R. (1981). Are the effects of university teacher education ‘‘washed out’’ by school experience? Journal of Teacher Education, 32(2), 711.