PULSE
CPD Insight
We earlier looked at the great work Tonbridge and West Kent’s SSP is doing training the pupils to become a School Sports Organising Crew and run School time competition, but what if teachers were able to train the pupils themselves?
In this edition we take an in-depth look at a pilot scheme currently being run in Thanet…..
SCHOOL SPORTS ORGANISING CREW
A Case Study
BACKGROUND: Three School Games Organisers (SGOs) in East Kent worked together to develop School Sports Organising Crew (SSOC) training for teachers and accompanying resources with a view to each of them hosting cluster or School training in their area to ensure that SSOC’s were set up.
Following a discussion the Thanet SGO Suzanne Gough met tutor Jo Pilgrim and a pilot School Sports Organising Crew ‘teacher training’ project was established and launched in Thanet in July 2014 with two key outcomes:
a) To train the primary staff to enable them to be able to set up a School Sports Organising Crew in their primary school, during the 2014-15 academic year.
b)To utilise the skills and the knowledge of the primary staff to guide the further development of the training package, to ensure it met the training outcomes but also make sure that it was suitable for staff to be able to train their children in their own schools.
Palm Bay Primary School
Five primary schools took part in this pilot attending an initial training day in July 2014. The outcomes for the training session were that teachers would:-
Understand the concept of the SSOC
Understand the different roles for young people in the SSOC
Be confident in how to recruit the SSOC and who else to involve
Know their role as a teacher in supporting and training the SSOC
Be able to confidently deliver the SSOC training
Have an action plan with timescales for developing the SSOC
Consider how to evidence the impact having a SSOC may have for PE and sport in their school
At the end of the training the teachers were tasked with going back to their own schools, to promote, recruit and train the SSOC and support the SSOC to write their annual action plan for the year detailing what the SSOC would do. This was followed up by attendance at a follow up session in November 2014 focusing on four key areas:
Promotion Identification and recruitment Training Action planning
Birchington Primary School has linked the SSOC to the existing Year 6 buddy system with a focus on intra school competition.
St Ethelbert’s Catholic Primary School , worked with a Year 5 class, and their focus is initially to develop three intra sport events. Each SSOC member has been given a school jotter, to note down ideas for the SSOC and also to write down their notes from discussions too.
St Joseph’s Catholic Primary School has focused on Year 5/6. Children submitted detailed application outlining their skills, and then a committee was selected from the applicants The SSOC has already undertaken a consultation exercise and from this found out that the girls wanted more opportunities to play Football and so one of things that the SSOC has done already is help set up a club, with 30 girls attending. One of things the school did was nominate a Spirit of the Games leader, and each class now nominates children against the values, when pupils achieve them all they receive a certificate.
Palm Bay Primary School. The PE coordinator selected two children as ‘head of the SSOC’ based on
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The five schools have interpreted the training they received very differently, and have been able to set up the SSOC at their school in a way which enables it to fit their own children and school.
In every addition of Pulse, we aim to produce a case study showcasing some of the outstanding CPD available throughout the County. For the primary school sports premium funding to be truly sustainable, it is imperative that some of this money is used for CPD.
their skills. They decided to advertise the SSOC and following group interviews of 25 children a committee of 10 was selected. The initial focus for this group is the selection of the teams to represent the school at the Kent School Games qualifiers as intra sport competition is well established.
Northdown Primary School. As a result of attending the training the PE coordinator has established SSOC at two
schools One focused on a class due to the size of the school, whilst the other through selection of Year 5. Intra sport competition is very well established in one of the schools, therefore the vision for the SSOC is focused more on range of sport.
What worked well is that the children all seem to be:
Embracing the SSOC as individuals and as a team
Supporting each other, and taking their responsibilities very seriously
Taking to the concept and are developing personally as a result
Becoming much more confident
Above all being else, being on the SSOC is being seen as something they can represent their school at beyond competing.
A follow up meeting led by Suzanne Gough (SGO) is to be held after the February 2015 half term to update each other on progress and get more ideas about how it can be used and developed in school. There is also a training date In the calendar for other schools to attend in March 2015.
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