January 2021 Issue 6 MOVE MORE SCHOOLS Issue 6 | January 2021 NEWSLETTER While the start of this academic year has been like no other, it’s been amazing to see how physical education, sport and physical activity has stayed at the heart of so many schools across Sheffi eld. HIGHLIGHTS Move More partners would like to take this chance to thank teachers, staff and schools across the district for Page 6 Primary Schools Start New Term showing why physical activity is so important in these and Hit The Ground challenging times. Running This newsletter will share just a snippet of the fantastic work that has taken place Page 6 Sheffi eld Schools throughout the Autumn Term, as well as showing more ways for schools to engage. Get Active Award Winners 2020 Schools needing support with PE, school sport and physical activity can contact your local School Sports Partnership/ Network, School Games Organiser or visit Page 8 Circus programme these websites for guidance and advice: to increase physical activity and www.afpe.org.uk/physical-education/coronavirus-guidance-support fundamental skills ] www.youthsporttrust.org/coronavirus-support www.yorkshiresport.org/what-we-do/in-education Page 12 Outdoor Learning Page 13 Are you ready to Beat the Street? 1 Issue 6 January 2021 As Sheffi eld enters a national device. lockdown in January 2021 there are a range of resources available to schools, pupils, parents and families to stay active and move more every day. With their being a lack of daylight, poorer weather and more structured remote learning through school, it is more important than ever that we are providing and promoting the importance PE, physical activity and sport for young people to help with their physical, social and emotional development. Sheffi eld School Games Organisers have again relaunched the Active at Home Timetable which allows participants to have a structure to each day, and will be launching daily activities and challenges to engage with. Term), we will You can even use websites such as There are a range of resources available be running a ‘Personal Best’ challenge mapmyrun.com to work out the to support schools and parents at home that pupils can complete alone, mileage of your route or use online with keeping children active and please alongside their parents/guardians or maps to calculate how far you’ve run if signpost anyone who needs support even within schools. Pupils and parents you’re unsure of the distance or don’t to one of the Sheffi eld School Games (and even teachers) can make one of have access to a tracker. Organisers. two types of pledges: If you choose to take part in the We can not wait to see your creative 1. To cover a certain distance by either physical activity timed challenge, all ways of moving more during these walking, running or cycling/scooting. you will need is a stopwatch to record unprecedented times. or how many minutes you are active for. For some more ideas to keep children, 2. To take part in any type of We will upload a virtual leaderboard young people and families active at physical activity for a certain once we start to receive submitted home throughout this time, please visit amount of time evidence also encourage you to submit the Move More Sheffi eld website. photos on Twitter using the hashtag Participants can track their progress #Sheffi eldGetMoving and tag @ Information will be sent to all schools throughout the lockdown period using ForgeSSP @ArchesSSP @LinksSSP and promoting the Sheffi eld Get Moving trackers such as Fitbit, Garmin, Apple @PointsLN into the post. Lockdown Challenge. Throughout the Watch, phone app (like Strava or Nike lockdown period (until February Half- Running) or any other similar recording 2 January 2021 Issue 6 Pilot project to improve Sheffi eld PE Working with Learn Sheffi eld and Mercia TSA, the PESSPA Alliance submitted a successful bid to the DfE for a project to improve the quality of PE teaching and leadership. This partnership have recruited a team of Specialist PESSPA Leaders and Champion Schools to work with identifi ed schools and share good practice across the Sheffi eld district. This work will include the following: Targeted Support: Information regarding the Universal • Intent, Implementation and • Improving PE teaching in 20 Training Offer for ALL Schools and to Impact of your PESSPA Offer schools book on the sessions can be found here: • Ensuring pupils get their 30 • Developing PE co-ordination active minutes of physical activity working with in 10 schools www.learnsheffi eld.co.uk/Partners/ through the school day • Maximising the impact of Sports PESSPA/PESSPA-Training Premium supporting 10 schools Sessions include: • Inclusion and SEND PE Universal Training Offer: • Assessment in Physical Education • PE teaching • Early Years PE and Physical • PE co-ordination Development • High Quality Teaching of Physical Plus: Education • Locality PE Peer Review Programme • School Swimming & Water Safety • Development of best practice • Planning Procedures and Progress This project has been guidance for engaging the least when returning to Physical delayed by COVID and the active and a toolkit for making Education (COVID-19 Restrictions) work will now take place the best use of Sports Premium • ‘You Don’t Have To Go Far To between November 2020 funding Have Fun’…Simplifi ed Systems for and March 2021 • Swimming & Water Safety Staying local with Outdoor Learning • Project Evaluation (by SHU) • Top Tips for New PE Subject Leads Jumping for Joy at the Sheffi eld Schools Skipathon The Sheffi eld Schools Sports more advanced skills for those wanting Partnerships and Skipping School Ltd new activities to practice. project got 16,000 pupils skipping across 70 primary schools in November. The plan was to try a new skill each day from Monday to Thursday with Many schools have been working with a Challenge Day on Friday for pupils Skipping School Ltd for over three years to take on their own ‘Personal Best to bring skipping into schools. Skipping Test’. There was lots of good feedback from A tutorial was also created for teachers about how children who children in Key Stage 1, to help with hadn’t engaged in sport before had fundamental movement skills and have taken to skipping. Seeing them enjoying some fun learning something they may being active has been a joy to behold, never have tried before. and has increased fi tness and general wellbeing. Many of the schools decided to make this a whole school project. They In November, the Sheffi eld Schools invested in a set of skipping ropes Skipathon project saw Key Stage for each child so they could follow 2 children try a range of individual COVID-19 restrictions and there would skipping skills. be a lasting legacy for the schools to continue skipping. This included beginners who may not have done much skipping, and offered 3 Issue 6 January 2021 Hunters Bar School Embrace the Skipping Spirit HBJ were with a few others at the front chance to develop. Even beginners A huge thank you must go to Chris and of the queue to get skipping with Mr. wowed Mr. Adebola with their side Jodi at the Skipping School as well as Adebola even doing a promo video! swing skills. the Sheffi eld Schools Get Active group (including our very own Points Learning Throughout the week, each day focused It was amazing to see so many pupils Network). The success will hopefully on one of the fi ve ways to wellbeing: across Sheffi eld getting involved and mean that the Sheffi eld Schools Learn, Connect, Take Notice, Give and it’s estimated that 16,000 children took Skipathon is likely to become an annual Be Active. Videos were shown to allow part in skipping week across the city. event. We’re already looking forward to beginners and advanced skippers the what we can learn for next year. St Patricks We Skip You a Merry Christmas St Patricks Catholic Voluntary Academy With the buzz for skipping Skipping Ropes on have built on the Sheffi eld Schools around school, they did the Christmas List Skipathon week which the children a festive sponsored skip loved. to raise money for this At St John Fisher Primary CVA the year’s charity, Schools for pupils and staff really enjoyed the Most children are now skipping at Bethlehem. Sheffi eld Schools Skipathon. dinner times in their bubbles, both individually and in small groups. All children and staff within school took Every child took part and showed They also started to use skipping as an on the challenge to skip to Christmas progression in their skills over the alternative to their daily mile which is songs for 15 minutes at the same time week. As it was so popular with also going well around school. with the theme being ‘We skip you a children and staff, the school has merry Christmas’. continued developing children’s skipping with daily activities running through breaktimes and PE lessons. The project has had a lasting legacy effect on the school, so much so, that some children even asked Father Christmas for a skipping rope! 4 January 2021 Issue 6 Positivity Points, Helen Steven: Points Learning Network Refl ects on a ‘Different’ Start to the Term Despite the diffi culties surrounding this year for all of our schools, there is still a positive buzz around PE in many of them. It was great to meet with the network of schools (albeit virtually) in February and to hear that most children in our schools are still getting their usual amount of PE lessons, just like in a normal year. Core PE lessons are the bread and butter in developing PE literacy for all of our children in primary, so this was a relief to hear and also the result of a ‘can-do’ attitude by our PE coordinators and school staff.