Using the specialism to raise achievement in core subjects

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Using the specialism to raise achievement in core
subjects
Annette Montague Youth Sport Trust
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Aims of the session

• To convince you of the importance of the agenda
• To briefly consider the progress of the work by
  schools in the room
• To hear about what some Sports Colleges are doing
  and give you some ideas to develop in your school
• To describe the work I will be developing

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Why is the issue of achievement in core subjects
important?

• Individual young person
• Qualifications and life skills
• Prospects and progression
• School
• Effect of core subjects
• Performance data
• Specialism / YST
• Performance data
• Reform and review agenda

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Key questions

• What is it about sport and PE subjects and
  departments that young people enjoy and allow
  them to achieve?
• Which of these factors are transferable to other
  subjects? And what does this look like in this
  context?

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How far have you developed the specialism with
respect to core subjects?

• Some questions

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What do PE and sport provide for the core subject
curriculum

• Values
• Skills
• Pedagogy
• Motivational and relevant contexts
• Relevant and motivational role models

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Values

• Motivation
• Self-esteem
• Confidence
• Ambition
• Competition
• Rules / respect
• Fair play
• Behaviour
• Ethics
• Relationships with others
• Experiencing winning and losing
• Health and well being

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Guin Batten
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Values

• How does your school explicitly develop these
  values?
• How are you building on these personal attributes
  to increase achievement?
• How will you measure developments in these
  attributes in your young people and the impact of
  these in achievement?
• Case study Using Sport Education principles
  in English
• Bridgemary Community School
• Manor School

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Skills

• Observation
• Analysis
• Evaluation
• Motor skills
• Leadership and teamwork
• Communication skills
• Emotional / intrapersonal intelligence

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Skills

• How is your school explicitly developing these
  skills?
• How is your school building on these skills to
  raise achievement?
• Case study Motor skill development
• St James Catholic High School
• Case study Leadership programmes
• Pickering High School
• Rising Brook High School

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Rising Brook High School

• Mike Gledhill - Headteacher

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Pedagogy

• Mentoring and coaching techniques
• Group / team work
• Art of demonstrating
• Practical / kinaesthetic learning approaches
• Competitive games-based approaches
• Goal setting and monitoring progress / targets
• Use of language

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Pedagogy

• Which areas of pedagogy is the PE department
  leading in?
• How are you sharing the practice effectively?
• Case study Improving the teaching of english
  using PE pedagogy
• Toynbee School
• Case study Developing the use of Dartfish
  software
• Hayesbrook School
• Case study Using Nike Girls in sport
  principles in English
• Saints Peter and Paul Catholic College

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Motivating and relevant contexts

• Areas of study and topics for debate / discussion
• Physics
• forces, gravity, movement
• Chemistry
• materials, drug testing, weather
• Biology
• cardiovascular system, respiration
• Maths
• angles, time, statistics
• English
• autobiographies, reporting, media representation

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St James Catholic High School

• Pat Lardner Director of Sport

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Motivating and relevant contexts

• To what extent do your departments consider using
  a sporting context to increase engagement in some
  topics?
• To what extent do your department collaborate to
  avoid duplication, share understanding or plan
  and deliver joint projects?
• How are you supporting and encouraging these
  developments?
• Case studies
• Berry Hill High School Kelsey Park School
• King Edmund Community School Tupton Hall
  School
• Poltair Community School Woodcote High School

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Relevant and motivational role models

• Cool to learn the subject
• Cool to aspire to becoming a
• Scientist
• Mathematician
• Author / poet
• Sports physiotherapist
• Commentator
• Sports photographer
• Sports surface development
• Sports wear / equipment development

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Role models?
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What do PE and sport provide for the core subject
curriculum

• Values
• Skills
• Pedagogy
• Motivational and relevant contexts
• Relevant and motivational role models

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Other ideas

• Using core subjects in PE (the other way around)
• using a sport, an event (2012?!) or sports
  areas
• Make generic raising achievement strategies
  specialism related
• Exam preparation
• Use of coaches / mentors
• Use of target setting/ data
• Use of rewards / celebrations
• Revision sessions / programmes
• Coursework assignments and strategies
• Anything that PE leads on ICT, AfL, display,
  environment, curriculum provision?

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Brierton School

• Gillian Hodgson Assistant Headteacher

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E-mentoring

• Pilot run by Specialist Schools and Academies
  Trust 2005
• www.schoolsnetwork.org.uk/e-mentoring
• Information about the pilot and findings from the
  evaluation
• A framework to plan provision
• Details of the national rollout
• National rollout
• DfES funded for 500 schools and 20 lead schools
• All training, technical and mentoring costs
  covered
• Schools identified Spring 2006 to receive
  e-mentoring Summer 2006
• Contact Paul Hynes paulh_at_ssatrust.org.uk

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Core subject work

• Identification of good practice and practitioners
• Project work with selected schools to develop
  practice
• Develop strategy of support for the whole
  specialism
• Area on School Sport Partnership intranet
• Core subject conference July 2006
• Register of practice
• Embed into established networking and support
  events
• Develop relevant key national strategic
  partnerships

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An opportunity

• Approval for sponsor money to be used to support
  more work in this area
• Looking to support more schools with a small
  amount of funding
• Expressions of interest to be emailed to me by
  February 24th (annette.montague_at_youthsporttrust.or
  g)
• Only commitment is to write a case study and
  share resources or materials by the end of July
  2006

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The specialism in a SEF

• A distinctive ethos for . Sports College has not
  proved difficult since such an ethos is entirely
  consistent with the schools core values. These,
  in turn, are reflected in the principles of good
  sporting behaviour fair play, good
  sportsmanship, playing within the spirit of the
  game, enjoying winning, but not at all costs,
  able to lose gracefully and learning from
  failure, developing teamwork and recognising that
  everyone has something to give, feeling a sense
  of achievement no matter how small the distance
  travelled.

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• The aspects of aspiration, inspiration and role
  modelling within our specialist ethos has been
  used to good effect throughout the school in
  helping change the attitudes of some of our
  students. PE and sport, where participants learn
  the skills needed to play or compete, alongside
  other aspects such as fitness . and preparation
  provides us with a model for personalising
  learning. Learning how to learn and being able
  to think about and reflect on their thinking has
  enabled students to improve their ability to
  choose strategies most appropriate for learning
  and, using feedback, to monitor and evaluate
  their effectiveness

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Thanks to

• Guin Batten
• Mike Gledhill - Rising Brook High School
• Pat Lardner - St James Catholic High School
• Gillian Hodgson - Brierton School
• Gavin Woods from Qwizdom
• - gavin_at_qwizdom.co.uk

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Using the specialism to raise achievement in core
subjects

• Annette Montague
• Youth Sport Trust