SSPEL Newsletter: Research and Scholarly Activities

Raising attainment in the Physical Education 14-19 curriculum

Friday 19^th October

The PASH day is a whole city closure day where a range of continued professional development conferences and held for all secondary teachers. In all there are 17 secondary schools in Plymouth and 6 special schools.

The Physical Education day was coordinated by myself in my role as lead tutor and operations manager for Plymouth and Torbay Local Delivery Agency. Representatives from Plymouth’s sports partnerships, sports colleges and Plymouth Local Authority worked together to put together a programme based upon audited need across the city.

Just under 100 Physical Education teachers met for the day’s conference hosted by Sir John Hunt Community College. The day consisted of nine workshop options, where delegates choose three. The workshops are outlined in the table below.

Time	Session	Activity 1	Activity 2	Activity 3
8am	Registration / refreshments / Market place – The Hall
8.25 – 9.45	1	Workshop 1: Using Dartfish to support analysis of performance and synoptic assessment (Practical)	Workshop 2: Looking forward changes to the 14- 19 curriculum	Workshop 3: Sports Education – a curriculum model for 14-19 age group
9.50 – 10.10	Break / Breakfast / Market place – The Hall
10.15 – 11.35	2	Workshop 4: Developing Health related exercise units for KS 4 - In line with new curriculum (Practical)	Workshop 5: Raising standards in PE and the New Curriculum KS 3 and KS4 planning	Workshop 6: Interactive learning for GCSE and A Level (including interactive whiteboard)
11.40 – 1.00	3	Workshop 7: OCR – subject specific workshop to include Nationals	Workshop 8: Long Term athlete Development - Its compatibility with the new national curriculum	Workshop 9: Raising standards in PE and the New Curriculum KS 3 and KS4 planning

A range of tutors were involved in delivering the workshops, including Stella Turner, consultant on 14-19 developments for the OCR, Brian Coates educational consultant and course leader for Southampton University PGCE PE, Jackie Arthur and Erica Eaton-Quinn from Marjon, Steve Jones subject specific consultant for national qualifications in sport from OCR, Chris Mather, Stuart Taylor and Kelvin Kirk from Marjon as well as myself and Ian Luke.

The day was not only an opportunity for teachers across the city to be engaged in relevant CPD, but also for them to reflect on current practice, share experience, practice and policy and network with other organisations. Evaluations showed the day to be very valuable, well organised and with huge potential impact on practice. A range of follow up CPD opportunities are to be developed to support teachers in school further.

Gill Golder