newshub.Oct2010

2In this Month’s Issue:

About the North Bedfordshire School Sports Partnership 3All you need to know about the North Bedfordshire SSP

Young Ambassadors Programme 53 of the Partnership’s Young Ambassadors (YA) attend the YA Conference

Get Set 7Learn all you need to know about the official London 2012 Education Programme

Change 4 Life 9Find out what clubs are available in your local schools

Multi Skills 11

3About the North Bedfordshire School Sports Partnership

The SSP team, consisting of Partnership Development Manager, School Sport Coordinators, Primary Link Teachers, Competition Manager and a high quality team of coaches - all supported by a network of Young Leaders and Young Ambassadors - are committed to ensuring that a variety of sporting opportunities as possible are available to all young people. By providing these opportunities, we are working towards the Olympic and Paralympic legacy and ensuring that local provision is of a high quality and accessible to all.

The change in Government has led to a degree of uncertainty regarding future initiatives. To date, this has not directly affected our projects. Currently, the SSP has coaching courses available to a wide variety of ages, from 5-19 and information on current coaching courses is available at the North Bedfordshire SSP website – www.northbedfordshiressp.co.uk

The SSP is working closely with its family of 1 upper, 3 middle and 15 lower schools. We are continuing to provide opportunities to teachers to attend courses designed to improve their knowledge and delivery of sport in and out of the curriculum across a wide range of sports and ‘multi skill’ delivery. We are also providing fully-qualified, CRB-checked coaches, employed through the SSP, to deliver extra-curricular coaching sessions within schools. This creates the added benefit of allowing teachers to observe high quality coaching and also for coaches to provide support and guidance in delivery to young people.

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The competition framework within the SSP has never been stronger or more varied, thanks to the work being done by our Competition Manager. This academic year sees three Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2 festivals and three County finals. There are also 60 after school competitions and 15 curriculum competitions for Middle schools and an equally significant number of girls, boys and mixed upper school fix-tures, again feeding into County finals. Competitive sport within our school partnership is certainly alive and kicking!

This provides information on some but certainly by no means all of our programmes and initiatives. Over the coming issues, we will focus on more of what’s going on within your schools. However, we can’t spread the word without your help. Please forward the News Hub link to friends and colleagues. By informing more people of the opportunities for sport in schools, the better experiences we can provide for young people.I hope you enjoy this News Hub issue and those to come.

Should you wish for further information on the Partnership’s work please do not hesitate to contact me.

Jamie LeesonPartnership Development Manager.

5Young Ambassadors Programme

“We have a dream, a dream in which all Young Ambassadors work as one to promote the values of the and lead the younger generations and light the

Ambassador Oath).

Jamie Leeson, North Beds SSP PDM, recently accompanied the Partnership’s 2010/11 Young Ambassadors (YAs) to one of the annual YA Conference, at Lancashire County Cricket Club’s Old Trafford ground, in Manchester. The SSP’s three YAs – Shaunagh Craig (Platinum YA), Joey Buszka and Alice Burgin (both Gold YAs) attended the conference; designed to give them the training and knowledge to be able to not only promote the SSPs work and be ‘leaders of Young Leaders’ but also to promote the Olympic and Paralympic values and the 2012 Legacy within the Partnership’s schools. More information on the Young Ambassador programme is available at; www.youthsporttrust.org

Here’s what the attending YAs had to say about the day, where they had the opportunity to work in groups with many Olympic and Paralympic athletes....

Olympic and Paralympic Games. We vow to inspire torch of tomorrow.” (Young

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“An early start was well worth what was to come, after a previous experience of the annual YA Conference I was excited to go. They played their traditional motivation video with British Olympians, that alone is worth seeing...so I was set for the day. We spent the day with our YA Olympian, mine being world champion and silver Olympic medallist, rower Miriam Batten. She was as excited as us about the opportunities ahead and had just as much to say as me!! The day was very inspiring and I look forward to implementing our new ideas into the partnership.” (Shaunagh Craig, Platinum YA).

“It was a great experience meeting sportsmen and women who have achieved greatness from literally nothing. Meeting those athletes was really inspiring, not just for my own sports, but also to prompt us to help others achieve and gain valuable life-skills from sport. Overall, it was a thoroughly enjoyable experience and will be great motivation to help others in the future!” (Joey Buszka, Gold YA).

“It was very inspirational to meet many ex-Olympians and very informative regarding the role of YAs and gave us lots of ideas of what we can do within our school and community.” (Alice Burgin, Gold YA).

The YAs will be working with the Partnership throughout the year and the Partnership News Hub will be doing features on each of them in upcoming issues.

7Get Set

This issue has an Olympic and Paralympic theme and, thanks to the London Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games (LOCOG), schools across the country are able to access resources and opportunities by registering as a ‘Get Set’ network member school. Get Set is the official London 2012 education programme for schools, college and local authority education providers across the UK.

Get Set’s aims are to;

• Enhanceyoungpeople’slearningrightacrossthecurriculum–throughsport,cultureandeducation• Supportanddriveexistingeducationalprioritiesandagendas• ToinvolveasmanychildrenandyoungpeopleaspossibleintheexcitementoftheLondon2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. • TotakethemagicandinspirationoftheLondon2012Gamesouttoclassrooms,playgroundsand into the lives of young people across the UK.• TosupportchildrenandyoungpeopleacrosstheUKinthedevelopmentoftheirleadership,personal, thinking and life skills.

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By becoming a registered member, schools will receive a plaque and certificate. Once they have received these, they will have the opportunity to enter competitions, with prizes including trips to the Olympic site in London. They will also have the privilege of using the Olympic and Paralympic logo on all school correspondence. This is a fantastic opportunity for schools to embrace the 2012 Games and the SSP would love to have all of its schools as official 2012 Get Set member schools.

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Change 4 Life

I’m sure that many of you have seen the ‘Change 4 Life’ campaign recently on our TV screens (the one with the ‘jelly bean’ characters!).

On the back of this, SSPs have been given the opportunity to deliver sports clubs, based specifically on Olympic and Paralympic sports, within the local communities.

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Change 4 Life clubs are aimed at participation throughout the year in community clubs based at schools from 5pm onwards. It is an opportunity for parents to get involved with their children and experience once-a-week clubs, at a fraction of the cost of traditional community clubs. Coaching will be available for those that wish to take up the offer and competition elements will be available to young people. One of the main aims is to ensure that Young Leaders are able to be funded to take coaching qualifications in the sports and to assist coaches throughout the sessions. The following clubs will be available in the new year at the following venues within the SSP;

Sharnbrook Upper School – Table TennisSharnbrook Upper School – BadmintonLincroft Middle School – BadmintonLincroft Middle School – VolleyballHarrold Priory Middle School – FencingMargaret Beaufort Middle School – Fencing

More information will be made available shortly and will be available through future issues of News Hub.

11Multi Skills

Over the past few years, multi skill activities have taken an increasingly higher profile within schools and school clubs as a method of delivering FUNdamental movement in a non-specialised sport environment. The North Bedfordshire School Sport Partnership are committed to providing high quality multi skills training for your staff and delivery with assistance from our multi skills coaches within schools, in terms of curriculum support and out of school hours multi skill clubs.

The multi-skill approach offers activities which use a variety of approaches which impact upon the FUNdamental Movement and FUNdamental Sport Skills of a young person in a fun but challenging environment. A multi-skill deliverer develops a range, and combination, of skills including agility, balance, co-ordination, running, jumping, throwing, catching, twisting, turning, hand/eye co-ordination, rhythm and power.

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By enhancing a young person’s overall movement vocabulary, the aim of multi-skills is to improve their physical literacy at a time before they choose to specialise in specific sports. The School Sport Partnership (SSP) believes a multi-skill approach should provide an enrichment and extension of both the PE National Curriculum and ‘Out of School Hours Learning’ (OSHL) sport, including National Governing Body clubs, and thus contribute to the range of activities which are recommended at the ‘FUNdamentals’ and ‘Learning to Train’ stages of the Long Term Athlete Development (LTAD) Framework. Similar to OSHL, Multi-skill Clubs enable by developing the basic skills, they extend by building on PE and they enrich as they are different to PE and offer a varied approach to skill development.

The School Sport Partnerships aim is for all lower schools to be delivering out of hours multi skills clubs to all children and curriculum multi skills in foundation stage and key stage 1.

Multi skills provides an opportunity for children to develop the core skills of balance, agility and co-ordination. These are classed as the abc’s of movement and are essential if a child is going to fully access the P.E curriculum. Multi skills adopts a fun approach using a variety of equipment which engages children and fully develops these core skills.

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The SSP is adopting a three-stage approach to multi skill delivery within lower schools;

1. After school training sessions – at either a central venue or within individual schools – to raise multi skill awareness for teachers. This will be delivered by the SSP’s SSCos, who are all trained to deliver multi skills and multi skills training.

2. The SSP’s multi skill coaches will attend the teacher training sessions to familiarise themselves with school staff.

3. Multi skill coaches will be available to schools free of charge for up to a term at a time to support delivery within the curriculum and to facilitate lunchtime and/or after-school multi skill clubs with the aim of creating sustainability within school programmes.

The SSP views multi skills as the essential ‘building blocks’ for sport and sees lower school support as integral to developing its vision. Harley Dowe, one of the SSP’s School Sports Coordinator and a Multi Skill specialist, has written a case study demonstrating good practice within a family of lower schools within the Partnership;

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“Within the Lincroft family, all schools deliver out of hours multi skills clubs throughout the year to children from foundation stage right up to year 4. Staff use the schemes of work and resources provided by the partnership to support their delivery and staff have received multi skills training and/or support from the partnership.

In one school in the family, multi skills is delivered within foundation stage and key stage 1 curriculum P.E as well as after school. This has greatly improved the achievement of pupils within other areas of P.E and has enabled children who have previously struggled to participate with confidence and enjoyment. These curriculum schemes are delivered in the autumn term to develop the core skills prior to children participating in other areas of activity. All learning is then reviewed in the out of hours clubs and then taken further in the year 3 and 4 out of hours schemes of work. This model has been extremely successful and there is a strong progression of skills from the foundation stage to year 4. All curriculum schemes cover the four strands of the national curriculum and early learning goals in the foundation stage.

The remaining lower schools in the family have responded positively to using the schemes of work provided by the partnership to deliver multi skills in the curriculum. The first schools will start to do this in Autumn 2011.

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The partnership has trained multi skills SSCos and coaches and is committed to providing training, curricu-lum schemes of work, out of hours schemes of work and staff to support delivery so that all schools in the partnership can access multi skills in the curriculum and out of hours.

In addition to lower school delivery the partnership also provides a year 6 multi skills academy. Gifted and talented pupils from each of the three middle schools are invited to take part in a range of activities to further develop and challenge their core skills. These activities include multi skills sessions, new experiences and theory seminars in nutrition. The academy takes place in the summer term over three mornings. The next one will take place in summer 2011.

Multi skills makes a real difference to children’s movement development and attitude to P.E and sport. By providing opportunities for all lower schools within the Partnership, we are hoping to ensure that, with Harley’s schemes of work, multi skills is embedded within lower schools for children’s development.