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**IMPORTANT** SUFFOLK PRIMARY PE NETWORK SEMINARS

Please make every effort to

attend one of these networks and choose the one that is logistically convenient to you. You don’t have to attend the seminar in the area

in which your school is based. The three seminars will repeat the same information.

WESTERN AREA 16TH June 2014 16.00-18.00hrs Bury St Edmunds, Moreton Hall Community Centre LIS 14/265 100 places available

NORTHERN AREA 19TH June 2014 16.00-18.00hrs Lowestoft, Carlton Coalville Primary School LIS 14/267

100 places available

SOUTHERN AREA 2ND July 2014 16.00-18.00hrs Ipswich, Holiday Inn, Orwell LIS 14/268 100 places available

For on line bookings to ensure your place on the network seminar please go to: www.suffolkcpd.co.uk and type in the LIS course code.

IMPORTANT HEALTH & SAFETY ALERTS:

Netball post protectors Although there is no statutory

requirement to use post protectors it may be worth considering them in future PE budget discussions. With

the increase in competitions and with more pupils participating in lessons, clubs and at break/lunch times it is always advisable to protect pupils

from any serious injury that might occur when colliding with a metal post. Please note also that it is essential that moveable posts that are on wheels must be weighted down with appropriate equipment. It

is also wise to remove posts from playground areas when not in use to avoid any potential malpractice and serious injury.

Concussion in PE and school sport

Following a serious case review this year, much information and guidance has been produced to support individuals, clubs and schools when concussion occurs. For up to date guidance and support follow the link:

http://www.rfu.com/takingpart/playerhealth/concussion/schools-and-colleges National Drowning Prevention Week: 21st – 29th June 2014

Very useful resources are available from the RLSS: www.drowningpreventionweek.org.uk

PE PROFESSIONAL LEARNING (CPD) SUMMER TERM 2014

Improving Physical Development and Physical Education in Key Stage 1 through BUPA Start to

Move

A FREE practical course for key stage 1 teachers, focusing on the teaching of fundamental movement skills 1 day course 5th June 2014

Course code: LIS 14/263 This course will take place at Newmarket at Laureate Primary School and priority places (one

place per school) will be given to Forest Heath Sports Partnership members. PLEASE APPLY ASAP.

****************************** Ensuring effective self-evaluation in physical education

This course will take delegates through the skills of self evaluation and provide an opportunity to share best practice in the management, operation and delivery of high quality PE and sport. The half day session

will also help signpost delegates to the Youth Sport Trust and the National Association for PE Quality Mark application process and raise confidence in doing so.

½ day course 13.30-16.00hrs 10th June 2014 Course code: LIS 14/269 *****************************

Dear colleague

I do hope that you have enjoyed a relaxing and enjoyable Whitsun break and that you are now refreshed; ready for the final term of the 2013-2014 academic year. Doesn’t time fly! Can I please remind you about the forthcoming Primary PE Network Seminars? It is really important that you try to attend and that your school is represented. A lot of information will be shared, there will be opportunities to network and pass on ideas and announcements will be made about the future support for PE in Suffolk. As always if you require any support, advice or guidance please contact me.

Mike

Mike Crichton (Learning and Improvement Adviser, PE & Sport) michael.crichton@suffolk.gov.uk 01473 263985

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The National PE and Sport Conference 2014

The National Association for PE will

hold its annual conference on the 8th July 2014 at the iconic, FA Centre of Excellence at St George’s Park, Burton-on-Trent in Staffordshire.

For further details, the programme,

costs etc. please follow the link: www.iexevents.co.uk/afpe2014

***************************** Improving Physical Development and Physical Education in Key Stage 1 through BUPA Start to

Move A FREE practical course for KS1 teachers, focusing on the teaching of fundamental movement skills 1 day course

18th September 2014

Course code: LIS 14/264 This course will be open to any school in Suffolk (one place per school). There are only 25 places available on this course and it will be held in Bury St Edmunds at Hardwick Middle

School and Sports College

PE PROFESSIONAL LEARNING (CPD) AUTUMN TERM 2014 ADVANCE NOTICE OF DATES Detailed information will be available at the Network Seminars and will then be posted on Suffolk CPD on line and on Suffolk Learning towards the end of the term. There are limited

places on some courses. 17/09/14 half day course (pm) New National Curriculum PE Planning and Assessment 25/09/14 & 09/10/14 2 day course

Primary Dance delivered by national tutors form the National Dance

Teacher’s Association (Limited places) 30/09/14 half day course (pm)

Safe practice and risk assessment in PE and Sport

(A crucial course for those subject leaders who have not attended an H&S PE course in the last two years) 15/10/14 & 20/11/14 & 05/02/15

3 day course Aspiring, new or nearly new to primary PE subject leadership

16/10/14 & 06/11/14 2 day course Primary Dance delivered by national tutors from the National Dance

Teacher’s Association (Limited places) 23/10/14 full day course Improving the quality of learning and teaching in key stage 1&2 gymnastics

(Limited places) 05/11/14 full day course Primary (KS1) PE Fundamentals:

Start to Move (Southern area. Limited places, restricted to Suffolk schools who are

members of the Suffolk Primary PE Professional Partnership Support Programme or hold individual school YST membership) 26/11/14 half day course (pm)

Are you providing consistently good to outstanding teaching in PE lessons? 27/11/14 full day course Primary (KS1) PE Fundamentals:

Start to Move

(Northern area. Limited places, restricted to Suffolk schools who are members of the Suffolk Primary PE Professional Partnership Support Programme or hold individual school YST membership)

02/12/14 full day course Sporting Promise: Primary KS2 TOP Games Teaching (Northern area. Limited places, restricted to Suffolk schools who are members of the Suffolk Primary PE

Professional Partnership Support

Programme or hold individual school YST membership) Date for your diary: 5th March 2015 SUFFOLK PE AND SCHOOL SPORT CONFERENCE

For on line bookings to attend Suffolk CPD please go to: www.suffolkcpd.co.uk and type in the LIS course code.

Course codes will be available for the autumn term CPD programme at the Primary PE Network Seminars and on

line after the 2nd July.

UPDATE: THE SUFFOLK KEY STAGE 1&2 LEARNING AND TEACHING RESOURCE FOR PE (THE PURPLE FOLDER)

Over the last few weeks the Suffolk Key Stage 1&2 Learning and Teaching Resource for PE has undergone a re-edit. We are re-producing the ‘purple folder’ ready for use in September 2014. It will be aligned to the new national

curriculum expectations but will keep the core tasks as a focus for learning. We will be introducing new guidance for assessment and also a set of new core tasks for athletics and OAA. These two areas of activity were not

included in the 2007 edition. We will also be including a new gymnastics transitional unit of work that supports progressions from KS2-3 which feature the Key Steps skills. These form part of the gymnastics competition element of the

Sainsbury’s School Games. This gymnastics unit of work and

accompanying case study has been developed and trialled by Pakefield High School, East Point Academy and several of their feeder primary schools.

More details will be presented at the forthcoming Primary Network Seminars. The ‘new’ resource will be launched

and used at the New National Curriculum PE Planning and Assessment course at Trinity Park

on the afternoon of the 17th September 2014.

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QUEENS BATON RELAY COMING TO SUFFOLK

The Queen's Baton Relay will notch

up some 120 miles and will be seen by an estimated 10,000 people as it makes a special visit to Suffolk next week (9th June 2014)

Having criss-crossed the world and travelled around 68 Commonwealth countries and territories since it left

Buckingham Palace in October, the Baton will reach Suffolk on 9 June - its only visit to the East of England on its way to the XX Commonwealth Games in Glasgow.

For further information and details of the events in Suffolk please follow the link:

http://suffolkbatonrelay.com/

SKILLS FROM BRAZIL

Dan Freedman is an acclaimed author and writes children’s books based on

the theme of football. The key character is Jamie Johnson. Several schools in Suffolk have been visited by Dan who provides a great day of exciting writing and reading activity

based on the stories. Kedington Primary School Academy is the latest

school to be visited and by all accounts it was a great day. The brand new Jamie Johnson book – SKILLS FROM BRAZIL – has just come out. It’s perfectly timed for the

World Cup. In celebration of this, Dan Freedman is running a National Book Review Competition to win a Signed England Shirt! For further information and how to enter please follow the link:

http://www.danfreedman.co.uk/schools/teaching-resources/ GET YOUR COPY OF SKILLS FROM BRAZIL!

PE HOMEWORK RECOMMENDED!

Judy Murray, the mother of tennis player Andy, has called for children to be given “physical education homework” to improve children’s fitness. Ms Murray said introducing

compulsory PE homework would help to improve the activity levels of children outside of the school day. She added: “Modern diets and the multitude of sedentary activities that kids are used to certainly do not help, but it is the fact that children are not

developing the basic aptitudes for sport and exercise that is most worrying.”

UPDATED OFSTED GUIDANCE: APRIL 2014

Ofsted has released updated/revised guidance:

Generic grade descriptors and supplementary subject-specific guidance for inspectors on

making judgements during subject survey visits to schools

http://www.afpe.org.uk/images/stories/Supplementary_subject-specific_guidance_for_PE.pdf

EXCELLENCE IN PRIMARY PHYSICAL EDUCATION

Excellence in Primary Physical Education

PE Professional Learning Support Programme

Four options are available. Support to individual schools and/or families of schools with a focus on monitoring, evaluating and development of PE

provision. Recommended by Ofsted

as an effective use of the funding.

http://www.suffolklearning.co.uk/content.asp?did=9427

I am already working with a large number of schools. Interventions and support is already being found to be highly valuable.

In the light of changes to CPD in

Suffolk from September 2014; including the pricing structure, if you wish to consider a

monitoring, review and development visit during 2014-2015 then please contact me ASAP and benefit from the

current programme offer and prices!

SAINSBURY’S SCHOOL GAMES: CULTURAL ASPECT

Suffolk Sport on behalf of the Suffolk Local Organising Committee for the

Sainsbury’s School Games launched

their strategy for the cultural element of the Suffolk Sainsbury’s Suffolk School Games Festival 2014 in November 2013. The strategy is to capture the imagination and creativity of ALL Suffolk’s school children and

young people through the organisation of competitions in music, dance and literacy. Please see the attached document for all the information that you need. Please encourage your students

and other teachers to be involved. Thank you.

SCHOOLS’ CHOICE

I will be explaining this new system in more detail at the forthcoming Primary PE Network Seminars but here is a ‘starter for 10’:

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Schools’ Choice is made up of a dedicated team of experienced professionals and the service offers a range of support including information, advice and guidance,

materials and toolkits to support school improvement processes and activities, curriculum networks, CPD,

online information, and face-to-face consultancy.

Schools’ Choice works closely with schools, academies, and free schools to develop bespoke packages across all phases. The consultancy service offers support on request from schools, and includes advice and

guidance plus bespoke training on all aspects of school leadership, management and curriculum.

Schools’ Choice is fully committed to making a real and tangible difference to the lives of young people by

improving learning outcomes and preparing children for the next phase of schooling and beyond.

From September 2014, ALL PE and school sport advice, guidance and professional support through the annual CPD programme, the

‘Excellence in Primary PE’ Support Offer, school’s direct requests for advice and the new Suffolk Primary PE Professional Partnership Support Programme and membership package will sit firmly in Schools’ Choice.

Hear more at the networks!

Note my Schools’ Choice email contact addresses:

michael.crichton@schoolschoice.org

PE&SchoolSport@schoolschoice.org

(I can still be contacted on my existing email address found below)

http://schoolschoice.org/

For any further information, advice and

guidance or support for PE and sport in your school

please don’t hesitate to contact me:

Mike Crichton

Learning and Improvement

Adviser (PE & Sport)

michael.crichton@suffolk.gov.uk

Telephone: 01473 263985