SSCo: PE and sport at the heart of the school

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SSCo PE and sport at the heart of the school

• SSP education and training programme

Gina Wallis Nigel Edwards
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Physical Education, School Sport, Young People
Strategy (PESSYP)

• SSP infrastructure
• Coaching
• Extended Activity
• Competition
• Gifted and Talented
• Leadership and Volunteering
• Professional Development
• Clubs
• Swimming
• Disability

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Course outcomes

• By the end of this course you should be able to
• Identify ways that your work (in OSHL, school
  sport and community links) relates to the work of
  the PE department and contributes to the ongoing
  development of physical education and sport in
  your own school
• Identify ways of increasing others (teachers,
  ASLs, parents, governors) awareness of, and
  involvement in, your SSCo work
• Describe practical ways of raising the profile of
  your work
• Recognise how you can demonstrate the impact of
  your work on whole school development and
  improvement

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The role of the SSCo

• To develop and implement out of school hours
  learning programmes across the family of schools
  including your own Secondary school
• To support PLTs in developing school sport in
  their school
• To engage and involve more young people in school
  community sport
• To identify, deploy and develop appropriate ASLs
  and young people as leaders, coaches and
  officials

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You as the SSCo

• Who feels their work has high profile within
  their school?
• Who feels their work is an integral part of their
  PE dept?
• Who feels their PE colleagues know what the
  intended outcomes of their work are?

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Main focus of course

• Ownership
• Profile
• Impact
• of
• Out of school hours learning
• School sport (i.e. competitive)
• Community links

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Communicating with the PE department

• How can/do you communicate effectively with the
  PE department?
• How do you raise awareness?
• How do you get them to understand the
  implications of SSCo/SSP work?

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Sharing your agenda

• Through the head of PE
• Item on staff meeting agenda
• Develop short reports
• Gather support from colleagues
• Newsletters (the SSPs or the schools)
• Notice boards
• Gather good news and evidence by
• Using photos and video
• Gaining young peoples feedback

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Communicating with the PE department

• What are the barriers this suggestions?
• What solutions can be used to overcome the
  barriers?

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The nine tactics of influence

• Reason
• Inspire
• Ask
• Feel good
• Deal
• Favour
• Allies
• Authority
• Force

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The nine tactics - examples

• Reason
• More of the non-sporty children will be involved
  if we expand the number of out of hours clubs
• Inspire
• Your club will really benefit from the type of
  children we have here
• Ask
• Which clubs do you think children would attend?
• Feel good
• Attendance is bound to improve if you are
  involved
• Deal
• Im sure they could use their leadership skills
  in science would you like to see what they do in
  the out of hours clubs?
• Allies
• You have always been so supportive in the past

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Ways to raise profile

• Which people should we be working with in our
  school and how will we develop this?
• Which people should we be working with beyond our
  school and how will we develop this?
• What statistics and examples should SSCos always
  be prepared with and how many different ways can
  these be identified within presentations and
  reports?

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The Ps of profile

• People
• Presentations
• Paper
• Prepare and plan

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Demonstrating impact

• Initial measurement
• As early as possible
• Involvement of others in collecting evidence
• Vital for ownership and spreads workload
• Involvement of others in evaluating progress and
  impact
• Helps others understand objectives
• Reporting and celebrating
• Often forgottenplan the celebration and then
  make sure you get there!