spring 2014 | sporting start magazine

Spring2014

SPORTINGSTARTThe Youth Sport Trust magazine for Primary schools

Interview with Edward Timpson MP

Encouraging competition in primary school sport

National School Sport Week 23–27 June 2014SAVETHE DATE

Focus on PE and Sport Premium

Baroness Sue Campbell CBE Chair Youth Sport Trust

The Youth Sport Trust: sport changes lives Our charity is passionate about helping all young people to achieve their full potential by delivering high quality physical education and sport.

We work to:

— give every child a sporting start in life through high quality PE and sport in primary schools.

— ensure all young people have a sporting chance by developing opportunities for those with special educational needs and disabilities.

— support all young people to achieve their sporting best in school and their personal best in life.

Find out more: www.youthsporttrust.org

For more information on our fundraising work and how to get involved contact [email protected]

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For those of us in the PE and school sport sector there have been many challenges and opportunities in recent years, so the latest news from the Government has come with a note of real optimism. Prime Minister David Cameron announced in February that his Government would continue to commit significant funding to primary school PE and sport.

The investment would see £750m going to primary schools over the course of the next parliament, building on the £150m-a-year ring-fenced funding currently committed for schools to increase PE and sport opportunities.

Any commitment from Government or senior political leaders to support high quality PE and school sport is welcome news, as only recently I warned against a crisis of inactivity in today’s youth. I fear the onset of sedentary lifestyles and time pressures both inside and outside school mean many young people are not being encouraged to lead healthy, active lives and I would hope that any Government takes this issue seriously.

The work of the Youth Sport Trust’s corporate partners is incredibly important in this area. Those who support our focus in the primary sector, including Bupa and Matalan, are making strong inroads into encouraging more young people to become passionate about PE and sport.

Schools can be a driving force for change and with PE and sport so high on education and health agendas it is imperative that we continue to demonstrate how our work can have such a powerful impact on young people. Individually, and as a collective, we must strive to support a healthier, more active nation.

I hope you and your pupils make the most of the warmer weather to get active this spring.

04 Snapshot — Photo gallery

06 Note from John Steele

07 PE and Sport Premium: creating competitive sport opportunities

08 Sainsbury’s School Games — Competition by young people, for young people

10 Using the Sainsbury’s School Games to raise whole school achievement

11 Sainsbury’s School Games Kitemark 2013–14

12 Interview with Edward Timpson MP

14 Membership Update

16 Skills2Achieve Reward and Recognition Programme

17 Embedding competition through the Sporting Promise TOP Sport Programme

18 Events calendar

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PHOTO GALLERY

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Denise Lewis visited St Thomas CofE School in Oldham after the school won the Primary Membership prize draw.

OCTOBER

Schools shared best practice for competition at the School Games Organiser Network National Summit.

OCTOBER

Pallister Park Primary School and St Breock Primary School were recognised at the 2014 Innovation Awards.

FEBRUARY

SNAPSHOT

Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson was among the speakers at the Youth Sport Trust 2014 Conference.

FEBRUARY

Stay up-to-date with all of our latest news on our website: www.youthsporttrust.org/news Follow us on twitter @youthsporttrust

Over £200,000 was raised for the Youth Sport Trust at a star-studded gala dinner at The Savoy, London.

NOVEMBER

Darren Campbell visited Rivers Primary Academy to celebrate their Sainsbury’s School Games work.

FEBRUARYPrime Minister David Cameron announced the £150m-a-year PE and Sport Premium funding will continue until 2020.

FEBRUARY

Primary teachers from across the country embarked on PE Subject Coordinator training in London and Manchester.

JANUARY

NOTE FROM JOHN STEELE

John Steele, Chief Executive Officer of the Youth Sport Trust

John Steele Chief Executive Officer Youth Sport Trust

Competition is all around us. Be it in the business world where retailers are battling each other to get us to part with our hard-earned money, the employment market where hundreds of people apply for a single job, or in the sports arena where the world’s elite athletes vied for gold medals at the Winter Olympics in Sochi. They all want to be champions and to do so they have to compete successfully with those around them. I have seen firsthand the determination and commitment that elite athletes need in their quest to be the best.

Competitive sport in schools has an important role in the development of young people. The skills that sport can enhance — such as courage, self confidence, resilience, resourcefulness, team working — can easily transfer to all areas of education. In this edition of Sporting Start we look at how competition can be used effectively in a range of creative ways to benefit the wider development of young people. I would encourage schools to use this as a guide of best practice and consider what strategies they could implement to benefit their own pupils.

There is some fantastic work going on in primary schools across the country to develop intra- and inter-school competitions as part of the Sainsbury’s School Games. Young people have opportunities to experience a range of sport formats — everything from athletics and archery, through to triathlon and wheelchair basketball. This variety is extremely important as it ensures the activities are engaging for all young people — whatever their age or ability.

With the grey and very wet winter we have all experienced, it is with some pleasure that I am looking forward to the summer and National School Sport Week. Taking place from 23–27 June, the week is a fantastic opportunity to encourage young people to be active and take part in more PE and school sport. In previous years we have seen thousands of events taking place across the country with amazing opening and closing ceremonies and young people taking part in a whole range of exciting sports, some for the very first time. Let us hope we will experience some sunshine too.


Essential Spring Reading

Safeguarding Policy

The Youth Sport Trust believes that all children involved in sport should enjoy safety, security and protection from harm, whilst enjoying a positive experience. Through our policies, procedures, guidelines and training, we are committed to ensuring that anyone working for us, or on our behalf understands their responsibilities and demonstrates best practice in safeguarding children in their care.

www.youthsporttrust.org/policies

Latest research

Confirming a link between PE and numeracy skills A study of primary children in Australia has established a link between high quality PE and enhanced numeracy skills.

http://bit.ly/1hJ2sDy

Encouraging girls to do more exercise Troubling new research shows that only 38% of girls are achieving the current recommended levels of daily physical activity.

http://bit.ly/1mSwlXl

Recommended reading

Building a lasting culture of physical activity The Government paper Moving More, Living More explores how organisations and individuals across the country can help to build a lasting physical activity culture.

http://bit.ly/MovingMore

Developing ‘soft skills’ in children and young people The Education Endowment Fund’snew review looks at the impact of ‘soft skills’ in schools on attainment, employability, wellbeing and engagement.

http://bit.ly/EEFSoftSkills

PE and Sport Premium: creating competitive sport opportunities


Stephen Hunt, Headteacher at St Charles Borromeo Primary School in Surrey believes that the PE and Sport Premium funding has allowed them to focus more on every child — not only in PE, but also beyond the weekly PE lessons. The school is working to ensure that as many children as possible are given the opportunity to play competitive sport and experience a number of different sports. St Charles Borromeo is part of a confederation of schools that has introduced a virtual multi-skills competition for some Key Stage 1 classes. They have a strong sports association and the PE and Sport Premium has enabled the school to increase the number of competitions they engage in by paying for teacher cover, enabling them to accompany the children.

“The funding has really given schools the opportunity to provide the best possible opportunities for all children to engage in high quality PE. In times of financial difficulty, this funding has ensured that PE remains a high priority for all schools and that cuts will not be made to PE provision or continuing professional development.” Stephen Hunt Headteacher, St Charles Borromeo Primary School

Greater participation in competitions

Raising the profile of PE and sport within a cluster of schools is crucial in maximising the PE and Sport Premium, and this has always been a priority for the Henleaze Junior School in Bristol. By taking a lead role in supporting other schools, they have ensured that all children in the area have similar opportunities. To do this, the school developed a new role to lead a cluster PE group that will meet regularly to develop a sustainable programme of inter-school events. They have also developed a new inter-school project with two local primary schools within walking distance which aims to ensure that all pupils experience an inter-school sports competition.

“The additional funding enables us to continue to fund our own PE teaching and extend our influence to children in other schools in the area, providing greater equality of opportunity. This further raises our children’s levels of skill and enjoyment by providing them with a high level of competition.” Adam Barber Headteacher, Henleaze Junior school

Introducing a new role in the cluster

Competition by young people, for young people

The Youth Sport Trust has had the privilege of leading the delivery of the Sainsbury’s School Games. Funded by Sport England lottery investment since 2010, a key focus of this event is to engage more young people than just the talented athletes that compete at the Games.

A key focus of this event is to engage more young people than just the talented athletes that compete at the Games. In doing so, we shine a light on the abilities of young people whether on or off the field of play, drawing national attention to PE and school sport.

Across the page, we have outlined three key areas which we believe are fundamental to these aims and hope that you share back with us what you are doing locally in your primary schools for the Sainsbury’s School Games.

The Games is made up of 12 sports, six of which include the most talented young athletes with disabilities. This gives young people from different backgrounds the chance to learn more about each other and the different challenges they face in both sport and everyday life.

As the 2012 Paralympic Games showed, young people in particular recognise excellent competitive sport, regardless of disability. The inclusive nature of the event also helps drive specific development of young disabled athletes.

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This event provides our athletes with the unique opportunity to compete alongside other talented athletes from able-bodied sport...the provision of such an environment is something we recognise as it plays a vital role in developing talented athletes.

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We believe in the capability of young people to deliver to an amazing standard in a range of roles. Young people took on an unprecedented level of responsibility in the planning and delivery of the Sainsbury’s 2013 School Games in Sheffield last September.

Not only were there young people in event volunteering (77% of the 535 volunteers were under 25), media and officiating roles, but we also had a Young Mayor in the Athletes’ Village. Additionally, the Opening Ceremony was written and presented by a team of Young Ambassadors in front of 5,000 spectators, with all of the acts having come from X Factor style auditions. These acts included a choir of primary school pupils from across Sheffield, and a dance group from a local primary school in the city.

By young people,

for young people

Young people don’t have to be on the field of play to be inspired by sport. Young people became fully involved at the 2013 Sainsbury’s School Games.

The ‘design a medal’ competition saw a primary schools’ designs used as the actual medals at the Games. Primary school children also provided over 1,000 good luck postcards to the competing athletes in a project run in partnership with a literacy campaign in the city, and a choir of 200 local primary school children performed at the opening ceremony.

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I am writing to you about how fun it was in the opening ceremony, I learned new skills such as stillness, expressions, balance and strength. I was a bit scared and nervous, but after we had finished I was really happy and it was mind-blowing. The ceremony is so good, I wish I could work there when I grow up.

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Developed by young people through the Young Ambassadors programme, the Spirit of the Games Values are vital for genuine, sustained success not only in sport, but in life.

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Using the Sainsbury’s School Games to raise whole school achievement

Recognition and reward

Have you thought about basing your whole school recognition and rewards scheme on the Spirit of the Games Values? Some schools are recognising individual achievements in these areas, while others have gone further and introduced a house system that operates across the school.

Carefully constructed competitions across the school can help pupils to develop, demonstrate and articulate these skills. Primary schools that have taken the School Games into the heart of the school are using its structure to promote the values of competition not only in PE and sport, but in other subject areas, and in the underpinning ethos of the school as a whole.

The competition framework can provide a nurturing, rewarding and motivating environment that encourages young people to achieve their personal best, and to exhibit the essential qualities that we seek to instil in all of our pupils.

School role models

Follow the example of the most successful schools — use a system which brings together pupils from across the year groups. Older pupils can act as leaders and role models for younger ones, taking on leadership roles within the house system to develop their personal skills.

Cross-curricular

Some schools use the Level 1 (within school) and Level 2 (between schools) structure to shape competitions in areas such as debating and public speaking, spelling competitions, mathematics competitions, or art, drama and music festivals. It’s best to start with a Level 1 event and then invite other schools to take part.

DETERMINATION

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PASSION

RESPECT

SELF BELIEF

TEAMWORK

The Values are:

Sainsbury’s School Games Kitemark 2013–14Primary schools make up 75% of all schools that are taking part in the Sainsbury’s School Games. During the last academic year, over 2,000 of these schools applied for the Sainsbury’s School Games Kitemark. This nationally awarded mark for schools now in its third year. It provides schools with an award showing not only their level of engagement in the Sainsbury’s School Games but also their wider commitment to physical education and school sport.

Start collecting your evidence now — check www.yourschoolgames.com for more details.

The application process provides a tool through which schools can develop a strategic engagement and development plan, and has been recognised by Ofsted.

The Kitemark is awarded at Bronze, Silver and Gold level.

Challenging criteria enable schools to recognise and publicise the opportunities that they provide for their pupils.

A quality assurance mechanism is in place to ensure the validity at each level.

In the 2013/14 academic year, the window will be open from 4 June–1 October 2014.



Youth Sport Trust’s Phil Chamberlain meets Edward Timpson MP

The Youth Sport Trust has welcomed the commitment from the Prime Minister to fund the PE and Sport Premium to 2020, with £750m to be invested over the course of the next parliament. This builds on the £150m a year ring-fenced funding currently committed for schools until 2016 and has the potential to have a huge impact on primary PE and sport. I chatted to Education Minister, Edward Timpson MP, before the February announcement and quizzed him on the Government’s priorities for school sport. Here is an extract of the conversation.

Since 2010 PE and school sport has been through a challenging time with regards to funding. What is your take on why the subject has had such political and media significance over the past three years?

Simply because it matters. When you speak to parents, they rightly want to know what is being done to develop a love of sport in their children, and to ensure that they get the long-term benefits of leading a healthy, active lifestyle.

As a consequence of that, and because of London 2012, there has been a much sharper focus on our response to the growing national issue of keeping our children fit, healthy and active. I welcome that focus and am glad that school sport is becoming a much more prominent subject.

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PCWhere does PE and school sport sit within the Minister’s priorities?

It’s a huge priority and it’s not just myself but right across Government, as well as the Prime Minister’s own personal commitment to this important agenda. For the very first time we have a genuine cross-Government policy on school sport, with financial support from not just my department, but from the Department of Health and Department for Culture, Media and Sport.

Looking back on London 2012, there was a real cross-party political consensus around the Games. Do you think there is a chance of getting a similar consensus on the importance of PE and sport in schools?

I sincerely hope so. In recent weeks and months, there has been a much stronger sense that we need to be united in our response. I’ve been really encouraged by the contributions from others across the political spectrum. Although we’re not always going to agree about everything, there is a much more cohesive view than we’ve had in a very long time.

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What advice would you give to schools to spend their money wisely?

For each school it will vary; I know in my own constituency, there are four primary schools that have pooled their PE and Sport Premium together, so they can buy in a full time PE specialist that spends a day in each primary school.

Other schools have used the investment to get further involved in the Sainsbury’s School Games, to help develop their Change4Life Sports Club, or to train their current teaching staff to be more confident in teaching PE.

We have worked with the Youth Sport Trust and others on guidance for primary schools and there is a host of information and examples to look through on the DfE website. We don’t want to dictate to schools, but we do want to make sure that they have the best advice and guidance available to them.

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View the full transcript online:www.youthsporttrust.org/Edward-Timpson

Find out more: www.youthsporttrust.org/primary-funding


PRIMARY MEMBERSHIP

Make the most of your

membership this term!

Your Youth Sport Trust Membership provides you with support to enhance and develop opportunities for young people within your school through PE and school sport.

Membership for 2013–14 offers high quality resources, support, events and opportunities. Use this magazine and the Members’ website to learn more about new areas of support to add to your work.

If you have not signed up for Primary Membership or would like to renew for 2014/15, please email [email protected]


Find out more: www.youthsporttrust.org/membership

Member benefits include:

PE Subject Coordinator Training

The learning journey is aligned to teaching standards and, through accredited modules, will support colleagues who wish to gain a Masters qualification in Primary PE. This interactive and engaging course will empower PE coordinators to effectively lead, manage and develop PE, physical activity and school sport.

Book your place:

Local training — contact your local Membership Cluster Coordinator National training — email [email protected]

The Youth Sport Trust Quality Mark

Every Youth Sport Trust Full Primary Member school can apply for our Quality Mark. This is an accreditation scheme which provides schools with a nationally recognised kitemark for PE and school sport, aligned to Ofsted guidance supporting the PE and Sport Premium.

Our online self-review tool supports you to audit your PE provision and identify priorities for your development plan.

As a Quality Mark school you will have access to a special logo which can be added to your school stationery and website. You will benefit from being part of a regional and national network of schools.

LEAD MANAGE DEVELOP

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Bronze Partner2013/14

FIND OUT MORE —www.youthsporttrust.org/QualityMark

A chance to consider and prepare my vision for physical education in my school, to organise my thoughts and ideas and to plan my next steps.

Feedback from the Harlow (Essex) Cluster of Primary Schools

FIND OUT MORE —www.youthsporttrust.org/PESubjectCoordinator

Skills2Achieve Reward and Recognition Programme


The Youth Sport Trust has been working with a group of committed Primary Member schools in Staffordshire to develop a fantastic reward and recognition programme for children. The schools have used their experience and insight into what engages and retains children’s interest in sport and physical activity. We have combined this with our programme knowledge, which demonstrates that intrinsic reward and children’s ability to self monitor their progress should be at the heart of any PE and school sport provision.

Skills2Achieve is an interactive, fun and child-friendly resource which aims to recognise primary-age children’s achievement in PE and school sport. The programme is designed to enable children and schools to understand the skills and characteristics they need to become physically literate and active learners in primary school.

Reward and recognition is at the heart of this programme, underpinning everything a school is trying to achieve by enabling children to become healthy, active citizens with a real sense of wellbeing. Schools are able to track students’ individual progress and differentiate support for those not fulfilling their potential.

You can generate reports and statistics that have a direct correlation with the quality of a school’s PE and sport provision. This data can provide the evidence that schools need for their PE and Sport Premium investment.

If you are looking for a comprehensive tool to measure the impact of investment into PE, school sport and physical activity in your school, including the PE and Sport Premium, then Skills2Achieve is here!

FIND OUT MORE —

[email protected]


Case Study: St Anne’s Primary School

— A Sports Education approach has been embedded within PE.

— Pupils put into teams, with leaders appointed and changed regularly.

— Points awarded for listening, changing quickly, effort and demonstrating sportsmanship.

— Success criteria differentiated according to year group.

— Promoted internally in classrooms and on school notice boards.

— Points are allocated, collated and displayed weekly.

— Children compete across different classes and year groups.

— Competition applied across the curriculum.

— School reward system reviewed to support this approach.

— Pupils change quickly for lessons, rarely forget their kit and listen well to each other.

— Pupils take collective responsibility for behaviour and effort — giving each other support, encouragement and praise.

— Competition is part of the school’s ethos, and part of their way of learning.

Embedding competition through the Sporting Promise TOP Sport Programme

Sporting Promise TOP Sport is a partnership between Matalan, Sporting Pro and the Youth Sport Trust which supports the delivery of PE and sport in 10,000 primary schools across the country. It helps teachers unlock the potential of their KS2 PE pupils through free workshops, receive resource cards, posters and access to online resources.

We believe that competition is a valuable tool to promote the wider life skills of determination, resilience, tolerance and problem solving. Through competition we promote ‘winning with dignity and losing with grace’. The children acknowledge and accept their strengths and weaknesses, working as a team to address these weaknesses.

Through the work we have developed in competitive PE, we foster a culture of interdependence, with the children taking greater responsibility for their own and other’s learning, with the teacher becoming less a director of activity and more a facilitator of learning.

Kerry Tinsdale, PE Coordinator

There are 3 aims within Physical Education:

Methods

Impact

St Anne’s Primary School wanted to embed competition into the school curriculum. Through the Physical Me, Thinking Me, Healthy Me and Creative Me strands of Sporting Promise TOP Sport, they enhanced competitive experiences in PE that developed the whole learner.

FIND OUT MORE —

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To support others, appreciating their talents and treating them with respect.

To develop physical literacy through a broad range of activities.

To understand and apply a healthy, active approach to life.

Sporting Promise NEW Outstanding Young Person Award Do you have a young person that has achieved above and beyond since taking part in the Sporting Promise Programme? If so, nominate them for the National Award today.

www.sportingpromise.co.uk/news/new-award-announced-for-sporting-promise/


KEY: Membership events Events for young people Events for all

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Subject Coordinator Training 3 — South

Step Into Sport Camp

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School Games Organiser Conferences

Young Ambassador Celebration Day

Events for School Games Organisers

4–7 September 2014 Sainsbury’s 2014 School Games, Manchester

FIND OUT MORE —www.youthsporttrust.org/events

EVENTS CALENDAR

PREFERRED SUPPLIERS

New equipment packs for Key Stage 1 Physical Literacy Development

These new equipment packs have been produced by Youth Sport Direct to support schools in the delivery of PE, play and other physical activities at the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) and Key Stage 1 (4–7 years). The packs will help to give children the movement skills, enthusiasm and confidence to begin lifelong participation in physical activity and sport.

These equipment packs would be a valuable addition to any primary school, and can be purchased with PE and Sport Premium funding.

To buy now or find out more, visit www.youthsportdirect.org or call us on 01509 226624. 10% discount available for Youth Sport Trust member schools.

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Matalan Sporting Pro

Sporting Pro have recently signed up to the Sporting Promise programme. There are now 14 stores open across the UK with more planned for 2014. Sporting Pro have pledged to invest 1% of all reward card sales back into school and community sport programmes.

Sporting Pro brands include Nike, adidas, New Balance, Asics, Under Armour and Canterbury with football and women’s sportswear a major focus. The wide range of sports equipment covers football, rugby, hockey and racket sports. Sporting Pro will continue to invest in the future of sport, helping to support the next generation of sportsmen and women. It’s about continuing the legacy from 2012 and encouraging everyone towards their sporting goals.

Go to www.sportingpro.co.uk for great offers throughout the sporting year.

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Amateur Swimming Association

New school swimming website launched for primaries

To help tackle the worrying number of children in the UK leaving primary school unable to swim, the ASA has launched new school swimming website www.swimming.org/asa/schoolswimming/

Aimed at both school teachers and swimming teachers, the website supports primary schools in delivering a fully-rounded education for each pupil. Alongside details of curriculum requirements and how to enrol teachers onto the National Curriculum Training Programme, the website includes a range of school swimming guides, sample lesson plans, helpful auditing information and frequently asked questions to aid the delivery of swimming lessons for primary school children.

FIND OUT MORE —www.swimming.org/asa/schoolswimming/

Badminton England

Get Bisi with BADMINTON England opportunities

The Bisi Badminton Key Stage 1 and 2 programme by BADMINTON England offers the first step to develop from beginner to medal winner and into a lifelong love of badminton.

From mini rackets and brightly coloured giant shuttles to lesson plans and mini festivals, Bisi resources and equipment are designed to deliver a flexible range of fully-inclusive badminton activities.

Each stage is also structured to support the key elements of the National Curriculum, while pupils can gain a sense of achievement though a Bisi Badminton award scheme.

FIND OUT MORE —www.badmintonengland.co.uk/BISI

England Basketball

all4ball — the official resource for primary basketball

all4ball is England Basketball’s official resource designed to introduce basketball to primary pupils both in and out of school.

all4ball consists of eight simplified basketball session plans offering high quality physical education sessions for pupils of all abilities. The resource has been written with the primary school curriculum in mind. all4ball requires no prior basketball knowledge or experience to deliver, and aims to help pupils to understand the benefits of learning a new sport and undertaking exercise.

all4ball is priced at just £24.99 and can be purchased from Youth Sport Direct www.youthsportdirect.org

FIND OUT MORE —www.youthsportdirect.org

School sport opportunities and offers from National Governing Bodies of Sport

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England Hockey

Quicksticks — introducing hockey to 7–11 year olds

Quicksticks is a 4-a-side introductory game of hockey, designed especially for 7–11 year olds. It can be played on any surface and uses a larger, lighter and safer ball.

The game is accompanied by specific equipment and resource, while simple rules make it easy for teachers to deliver, even if they have little or no prior knowledge of hockey.

You can also download free resources for after-school clubs, festivals, and take our free online teacher training course!

FIND OUT MORE —www.playquicksticks.co.uk

Tennis Foundation

Deliver a tennis themed week this summer!

The Tennis Activity Week Pack is a pre-prepared week of cross-curricular lessons. Though aimed at children aged 7–9 years, it can be adapted for older year groups. The pack contains easy to use lesson plans and worksheets covering a variety of subjects, with many of the lessons incorporating ICT.

Volleys & Values is an innovative and inspiring cross-curricular resource for children to learn more about the game of tennis and the values underpinning the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Dan the Coach and ‘the Value Monsters’ are on hand to guide you and your pupils through each of the 12 easy-to-use lesson plans.

FIND OUT MORE —www.schoolstennis.org

Rugby Football Union

New England Rugby Course: Kids First Rugby — Schools

England Rugby is launching Kids First Rugby — Schools, their new course for teachers and coaches delivering rugby union to year 5 and 6 pupils this summer.

The course focuses on developing the social, personal and rugby skills of the pupils as well as their physical literacy. It will support teachers to deliver rugby union in an inclusive, engaging and enjoyable manner, while enabling you to meet the outcomes of the new National Curriculum for Physical Education.

Every delegate receives a teacher and pupil resource pack, contact your local RFU Rugby Development Officer for details of courses near you.

FIND OUT MORE —www.rfu.com/abouttherfu/ contactus/rdocontactlist


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spring 2014 | sporting start magazine

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