Update November 2013

Newcastle School Games - Autumn Term updates

We appointed two interns at the start of term who are contracted to work a minimum 1 day per week to help us develop our capacity to support Newcastle Schools. Daniel Grey and Chloe Fletcher were successful in gaining the internships after interview with 55 applications. The internships are voluntary and fixed for the 2013-14 academic year only.

Service Level Agreements

We have had to differentiate our offer to schools in two ways going forward, Non-Service Level Agreement schools and agreed Service Level Agreement Schools.

Non-SLA Schools

As each School Games Organiser (Steve Beharall & Ian Kendall) are funded three days per week from Department for Health and Department for Culture, Media and Sport. As part of our central funding we are required to deliver Level 2/3 of the Sainsbury School Games programme as part of the London 2012 legacy and also deploy a network of Primary School Change4life Sports Clubs.

Service Level Agreement Schools

At an agreed price we offer the following additional services to SLA schools:-

·         Discounted CPD opportunities

·         Healthy Active Lifestyle events and opportunities

·         Sports Leadership programme & Leadership Academies

·         Sportivate funding for after school coaching and links to community clubs (Secondary only)

·         Ofsted evidence file and action planning for PE & School Sport (First, Primary and Middle schools only)

·         Level 1 School Games

1.        Sainsbury’s School Games

Level 1/2/3 School Games is all about competitive school sport with Level 1 being intra-school, level 2 is a citywide qualifying competition and level 3 is the winning schools from around Tyne and Wear. We work closely with 35 National Governing Bodies of sport to deliver this pathway of opportunities. Follow this link to view our School Sport calendar

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2.       PE and School Sport Action Plans

As a result of our Service Level Agreements we now have action plans to develop PE & School Sport with the following schools:-

West Newcastle Academy	Walkergate Primary School	South Gosforth First
Hilton Primary Academy	Waverley Primary School	St Catherine's RC
Benton Park Primary School	West Walker	St Cuthbert's RC Primary - Walbottle
Broadway East First School	Westerhope School	St George's RC
Bridgewater Primary School	Wingrove Primary School	St Johns
Byker Primary School	Brunton First School	St Pauls C of E Primary School
Central Walker C of E	Lemington Riverside	Throckley Primary School
Chillingham Road Primary School	St Charles RC	Tyneview Primary School
Cragside Primary School	Kenton Bar	Newburn Manor
Grange First	St Cuthbert's Kenton	Thomas Walling
Hotspur Primary School	St Teresa's	Ravenswood Primary School
Kingston Park Primary School	West Jesmond	Regent Farm First

3.       Healthy Active Lifestyles (HAL)

We have developed this area of work significantly with the inclusion of a number of events and opportunities which are the opposite of Sainsbury’s School Games in terms of outcomes.  Each HAL event is based on developing values and engaging sports activity in a fun, friendly environment and signposting to linked community programmes being delivered by Active Newcastle using the Fusion young person’s membership card.

4.      CPD & Teacher Training

We have now coordinated three successful training opportunities for Newcastle teachers which were:-

·         Early years First Funs @ Benfield School on 14^th October – 22 teachers attended

·         Funs for Everyone @ Ravenswood Primary on 5^th November – 17 teachers attended

·         The 5 minute Lesson Plan @ Benfield School on 19^th November – 22 teachers attended

We have agreed to coordinate further opportunities in the New Year to include updates on the new PE curriculum and assessment.

5.       Health and wellbeing lead school

We wrote a bid to the Youth Sport Trust to become the lead for Health and Wellbeing across Newcastle and have now been accepted as the host school here at Benfield School. The School Games team will lead on this programme and the main outcomes of this work for 2013/14 are:-

·         Increasing the participation of young people deemed less active in physical activity;

·         Improving children and young people attitudes towards healthy and active lifestyles;

·         Increase children and young people’s health literacy through PE, school sport and healthy active lifestyles;

·         Improve the capacity and expertise of ALL school staff in relation to  the delivery of healthy active lifestyles

  

6.      PE & School Sport Network

We have successfully created a network group which meets every half term at a local school to share resources, ideas and skills to develop PE & School Sport as well as an opportunity for CPD and to work with some pupils for year 3/4. The first meeting was attended by 22 teachers from 19 different schools

7.       Play Makers Sports Leadership

We have delivered the Sport leaders UK Play Makers award successfully to 5 schools and have booked in a further 10 to develop the skills of pupils in year 5 to lead in PE and playgrounds in their schools. We intend to invite the Outstanding Play Makers to a Primary Leadership academy in the summer term. This area of work is being managed by Daniel Grey as part of his internship.