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Ensure a skilled workforce

Ensuring staff have the confidence and competence to offer high quality experiences of both physical education and physical activity across the school/college day.

 

How to achieve this:

 

Further Information:

All staff are aware of the importance and benefits of PA and know the key recommendations - include PA infographic from link

  • How do staff encourage physical activity through role modelling?
  • Do you offer and promote different opportunities for staff to be active?
  • Collaborate with local services in the community where possible
  • Create a supportive environment and organise friendly phsyical activity challenges.
  • Can you incorporate physical activity into professional development? e.g. integrating PA into staff training
  • Hold staff meetings/workshops around the importance of PA for themselves and children - provide information on ways to incorporate PA into daily routines
Helpful Resources:

infographic showing guidelines for physical activity for children and young people:Physical activity: builds confidence and social skills develops co-ordination improves concentration and learning strengthens muscles and bones improves health and fitness maintains healthy weight improves sleep makes you feel good Be physically active Spread activity throughout the day. All activities should make you breathe faster and feel warmer. Aim for an average of at least 60 minutes per day across the week. Activities to develop movement sills, and muscle and bone strength across the week include: playing running and walking swimming skateboarding riding a bike active travel sports, like football or tennis physical education (PE) skipping climbing workout dancing Take steps to reduce inactivity. Get strong. Move more. Find ways to help all children and young people accumulate an average of at least 60 minutes of physical activity per day across the week.

Download the above infographic

 

Join the Youth Sport Trusts Well Schools Movement

  • A Well School places just as much emphasis on health and wellbeing as it does on academic performance. It understands that children and young people are more effective learners when they are happy and healthy, and that they must take care of their staff and their pupils wellbeing to create a culture that allows everyone to reach their potential.
Helpful Resources:

secondary school students smiling in class, text reads "well schools - join the movement" 

 

Level 5/6 – Primary School PE Specialism and PE Subject Leadership

  • The aim of the qualifications is to upskill primary colleagues to be able to assist (Level 5) or lead (Level 6) the delivery of high quality primary school PE.
Helpful Resources:

image of a teacher leaning against a wall in school, text reads "level 6/6 - primary school pe specialism and pe subject leadership qualifications

 

Train young leaders to run physical activity during playtimes, lunchtimes and after school

  • Creating the workforce of the future can give children wider opportunities to be active, learn more and be the role models for the next generation.
Helpful Resources:

teenager coaching another young person, text reads "active cornwall - leadership"