Let’s Teach PE!

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Let’s Teach PE! – an essential short online course for all-staff

Develop your knowledge, understanding and confidence via this on-line CPD course that can help  add that extra ‘O’ changing “Oh God it’s PE today!” into – “Oh GOod it’s PE Today!”

Suitable for ALL staff who will be teaching, or supporting primary physical education (PE) in the curriculum. An ideal ‘extra’ to support Early Career Teachers (ECT’s) who may feel anxious due to lack of training in and around physical education as well as teachers teaching their own class PE, coaches, instructors or HLTA’s.

We believe this course to be an essential foundation in boosting and sustaining a school’s capability, capacity alongside staff confidence, competence. An affordable, cost-effective whole school development programme designed to reframe the narrative around PE to a positive, knowledgeable one in schools. If YOU are teaching your class PE for the first time in a while then this short course is a must!

Legacy Planning – Build sustainability through using the PE and sport premium funding to provide this affordable online CPD for ALL your staff.

This new on-line short course provides you with valuable CPD across your primary school staff – all those engaged in teaching or supporting PE. Therefore, it is perfect for QTS (including ECT) staff as well as instructors, HLTA’s, TA’s, Cover Supervisors etc. It is part of our mission to ensure that ALL pupils receive an entitlement to 2 hours a week of high quality physical education every week within the curriculum. We work to empower staff and schools to deliver this – not deliver it for you!

Highly cost-effective, on-line learning for potentially ALL your staff, makes this incredibly good value and a perfect use of PE and sport premium as it up-skills staff, builds sustainability and raises the profile of PE in your school! It also provides a valuable framework to support teachers and others create EPIC lessons (Engaging, Progressive, Inclusive, Challenging) – plan, differentiate and engage pupils in and through PE. Learners on the course will be able to gain valuable insight into teaching PE based on the national curriculum and the course fully aligns with any scheme of work that schools may be using either commercial (such as Get Set 4 PE, Primary PE Planning, The PE Hub etc.) or self-written. With resources, top tips and practice that can be easily picked up and used by all!

Work your way through the short course to gain a Certificate of Completion whilst developing your confidence to teach high-quality PE to ALL our pupils. You will also develop as a staff a shared efficacy and understanding for the role of PE and the potential for PE to work cross-curricular, making it an ideal legacy tool to raise the profile of PE in your school. The course is about learning in and through PE.

You will be encouraged to share ideas, resources and professional dialogue and discussion during this short course (6 – 8 hours). The course is self-paced allowing you to work through it at your  leisure, taking time to reflect, try ideas out in practice etc.

Schools only pay a single fixed fee – just £250! This allows any member of your school’s staff (with a school email address) to access the complete the certificated course. Subject Leaders can monitor completion to show the impact of the spend across the school as well as ensuring that it links and supports their planning and school improvement agenda.

So avoid costly twilights, travel expenses of tutors, and staff trying to learn at the end of a long-day!

You will:

• Develop your understanding of what PE in primary schools’ entails
• Understand the requirements of the national curriculum in relation to PE
• Develop greater confidence in planning EPIC lessons applying common principles and pedagogical approaches
• Develop your competence in adapting planning to suit your pupils needs – equity as well as equality for all
• Use formative assessment to ensure your pupils make effective progress
• Develop your understanding of planning and teaching across the five key areas of activity – Gymnastics, Games, Dance, Outdoor and Adventurous Activities (OAA) and Athletics
• Understand the importance of routines and planning for engagement, progression, inclusion, challenge, equity, transitions and more
• ‘Try & Apply’ what you learn as you progress on this short course
• Through whole school access gain a greater shared efficacy of the potential impact of PE on your whole school improvement issues
• Explore proven teaching strategies and approaches for each area of activity
• Develop deeper / greater knowledge of engaging pupils through the areas of activity maximising learning opportunities wherever possible
• Explore materials and resources, as appropriate to support implementation of your curriculum plan
• Review key stage expectations and progression across the key areas of activity

This course can set the foundations for ongoing continued professional development leading to our suite of national qualifications in primary PE or pre-cursors to bespoke in school specific training such as Gymnastics Large Apparatus or OAA.