The Wonderful Every Day
A brand-new, Innovative Development package for schools.
We know that well taught Physical Education has a huge impact on young people, but we are seeing that in many schools, the offer is narrow and often dominated by games, with just a tokenistic experience of Outdoor Education.
One of the principal findings in the National PE report of 2023 was…
“Many schools do not match the ambition of the national curriculum….
‘Furthermore, in three quarters of schools, outdoor adventurous activities (OAA) are either not taught effectively or not taught at all.
What benefits can Outdoor Education achieve?
- Physical skills - Coordination.
- Social skills – Communication, Trust and forming friendships.
- Cognitive skills - decision making, resilience and self control.
- Leadership skills.
- Health and Fitness- Activity and knowledge.
- Self esteem through success.
- Encourage life-long participation.
In addition, when children participate in Outdoor Education they will be consolidating other areas of PE such as developing motor skills, confidence and competence in the outdoor environment as well as both mental and physical challenges.
A new, cutting edge Outdoor Education package, involving face to face training, market leading resources, and mentoring has been developed ready for launch in 2024/25.
The package will be will be delivered jointly by Ian Roberts, CCC PE adviser and Stephen Brown, CCC Outdoor Education Adviser, both of whom are expert advocates in this area of the curriculum.
Impact and Outcome
The package will train, empower and encourage your staff to develop and deliver easy to use, cost-effective activities on the school site, that will put Outdoor Education and Environmental ideas at the heart of Physical Education in Key stage 2 with loads of cross-over into other subjects including science, geography and maths.
The package incorporates four elements, all with training embedded into each section.
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Introduction Day. Friday November 29th 2024
This whole day will involve;
- Training in small groups, with ideas, activities and creating a plan for their lessons to be used immediately and later this year.
- There will be set of resources for each teacher, a set of Outdoor Learning Cards and Environmental Learning cards (£118 RRP)
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Development and Practice Stage
Over the mid period ideas will be tried and put into practice at your school. Schools will be put into learning clusters of 3 to support and share ideas. They will be encouraged to meet three times, at least once face to face. This is an important part of the process, and each cluster will be closely supported by Ian Roberts or Stephen Brown
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Additional technical session
Stephen and Ian will lead a twilight developmental session a twilight on a school site on using a bouldering or traversing wall to best effect.
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Further Ideas Impact, Evaluation and Future plans
A final half day session to
- Bring together the impact seen in your pupils,
- Reflect on successes of the programme.
- Consideration of further ideas on making outdoor education part of a wonderful every day.
The costs of this package would be considered a good use of PE and School Sport Premium Funding
We expect this course to be oversubscribed - Please apply as soon as possible
Course Fee £ 352.00 (includes 3 days training, resources (a set of Outdoor Learning Cards and Environmental Learning cards (£118 RRP)), refreshments & certificate of completion
(We expect most schools will fund this from the development aspect of their PESS Premium funding)
Further information
Chris Marshall Outdoor.education@cambrideshire.gov.uk
And book the day into the diary Introduction Day. Friday November 29th 2024
