Supporting schools Secondary Schools Secondary half term highlights This half term's highlights include resources to support inclusion for your pupils, as well as opportunities to be active during the summer term. Swimming CPD Our next Teacher of School Swimming course has been confirmed for 1st May at William Brookes School, Much Wenlock. Costing £99 per person, it covers: Planning and evaluating a school swimming programme Creating, delivering and evaluating lesson plans in line with the National Curriculum Understanding the technical aspects of the different strokes The course includes 6 hours of online learning followed by one day of face to face poolside teaching. Book your place here Inclusion Activity Alliance has released a series of activity cards designed to help deliver high quality inclusive activities for all participants.Categories include warm up games, fundamental skills, striking and fielding skills, invasion games, net court and wall games and the cards allow deliverers to adapt, modify and progress activities for participants with different abilities and/or specific impairments. Download the resource cards. Following LGBT+ History Month in Feburary, Schools Out are offering young people from 5 to 18 (key stages 1 to 5) to design the LGBT+ History Month badge. This provides young people and opportunity to be part of LGBT+ history and is a great activity for education settings to run during Pride month and Schools Diversity week. The deadling for entries is 30th June, 2024. Find out more or enter the competition. National Children's Day UK takes place on 12th May 2024. The aim of the day is to get as many people as possible to create events and activities that highlight the importance of healthy, happy childhoods, celebrate all the great work that is going on nationwide to support child and family wellbeing and champion children's participation. Learn more about how you can support National Children's Day Opportunities to be active England Netball have created Blended Netball - a secondary school leadership programme for mainstream girls to deliver netball to girls with special educational needs within their schools. Free to access, it is designed to develop life/interpersonal skills such as leadership, communication and empathy, and provide an opportunity for pupils who may not otherwise be involved, to access netball. Once registered, you'll recieve your Blended Netball resources and a Teacher Pack, and additional support is available from your county Netball Development Officer, Ruth Hughes - [email protected]. Register for Blended Netball The Breaking Limits Programme is a free curriculum-linked PE & PSHE programme which includes resources for classrooms, gyms and assemblies with no specialist knowledge required, exploring three topics: Confident Mover; Team Player; and Goal Setter. In addition, schools who sign up, can enter a new Breaking Limits competition, giving schools the opportunity to secure a visit from a GB Olympian or Paralympian for an unforgettable Sports Day experience. Sign up and download the free resources The Woodland Trust want to make sure everybody in the UK has the chance to plant a tree, so they are giving away hundreds of thousands of trees to schools and communities to try to get millions more trees in the ground. They are currently taking application for tree packs to be delivered in November 2024. Apply for your your tree pack. England Hockey have launched an exciting giveaway for schools! One lucky school will get the chance to win either a Hockey Heroes School Pack, Quicksticks School Hockey Pack, or an In2Hockey School Pack (whichever suits the needs of their school) to help kickstart their hockey delivery. Simply register on the England Hockey hub to access all the school resources and enter! Register with England Hockey Hub Engaging less active pupils The Youth Sport Trust’s Girls Active Survey supports schools to gain student insight through an online survey to understand the participation levels, attitudes, motivations and barriers to participation in school sport and physical activity. Schools can now register to participate in the survey between Friday 10 May 2024 and Friday 21 June 2024. Each school will receive a School Insight Report based on the collated responses of students in your school. Register to take part. On 1st May at 11.15am, Studio You is hosting a special virtual event to help us change the way girls see physical activity in school and beyond. In front of an audience of students at Mulberry Academy in East London, BBC Radio 1Xtra presenter Swarzy will lead an informal conversation with a panel of diverse and relatable voices. They’ll bring expertise and personal insight on topics such as puberty, periods and stereotypes in sport, giving practical advice on how to tackle some of the barriers to girls getting active. The event is free to all secondary schools and teachers across England to register and watch it online with their students – either live or on demand afterwards. Register for Studio You Live If you have any questions or would like further support for your pupils, please contact Claire Mansfield. Manage Cookie Preferences