Learning to Lead Baverstock Play Leaders Award

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Learning to LeadBaverstock Play Leaders Award
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Aim

• To increase informal physical activity and
  structured play within primary school playgrounds
  through developing year 5 6 Play Leaders and
  widening the activities on offer at lunchtimes
  and breaks.
• To develop confident and competent young leaders
  with leadership skills such as communication,
  organisation, motivation and the raising of
  self-esteem.
• To encourage leaders onto the Baverstock SSSP
  leadership pathway and who will then eventually
  go onto leadership and volunteer roles within the
  sporting world.

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1. Structured Play

• Increases participation in purposeful play and
  physical activity.
• Improves behaviour, especially during breaks
  lunchtimes.
• Provides a good learning environment in the
  playground by organising different activity zones
  so that pupils feel safe and can play freely in
  adequate space and focus on what theyre doing
  thus increasing skill levels.
• Creates an improved climate for learning in the
  classroom, especially in classes that immediately
  follow, as a result of increased concentration
  and confidence.
• Decrease incidents of anti-social behaviour in
  the playground.
• Improves attendance, especially amongst
  vulnerable pupils through the reduction of
  problems associated with bullying and
  inappropriate behaviour.
• Supports the work of adults and staff within the
  school.
• Provides the opportunity for older children to
  work with younger children thus promoting
  integration and social inclusion

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2. Young Leaders

• Benefits
• Personal Development increased confidence,
  self-esteem and self-management, improved
  communication, moral and social skills.
• New skills and experience that can be transferred
  into a variety of situations and environments
• A qualification which is well known and
  understood by schools within the partnership.
• The chance to shine and the potential to be a
  role model to others and inspire positive
  behaviour through organised activity.
• Have the opportunity to take the first step onto
  the leadership pathway.

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3. Baverstock SSP Leadership Pathway
KS1
KS5 Further
KS4
KS3
KS2
Learning To Lead Yr 5 6 Play
Leaders
Play Buddies

• Hitting The Mark
• Level 2 in Sports Leadership (16)
• Community Volunteering (200 hours)
• Step Into Sport Leadership Camps
• City Wide Conferences
• Higher Sports Leaders Award (18)

Striding On Level 1 in Sports
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Moving On Yr 7-9 Sport Education

• TOP Link Festivals / School Based Volunteering
• NGB Awards / Officiating Awards
• Sports Coach UK Qualifications
• Day certificate in Sports Leadership (those 16
  new to leadership)
• Award in Dance Leadership or Basic Expedition
  Leadership

Existing Yr 6 Play Leaders organising play
for their yr 7 peers
PROGRESSION UP THE LEADERSHIP LADDER
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Baverstock SSP Leadership Ladder

• A progressing system of leadership and
  accreditation that all young people can access at
  any level at any time across the partnership
  within both PE beyond.
• Aid the transition between KS2 KS3
• Pupils must complete an agreed number of tasks to
  progress onto the next stage. Evidence needs to
  be centrally recorded.
• The ladder will aim to increase the number of
  young people involved in leadership and
  volunteering and encourage young people to show
  initiative, independence and a desire to get to
  the next level.
• Ultimately the young people will be making a
  positive contribution to their school and
  community.
• To work, the ladder must be adopted by individual
  schools and embedded into their work.

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Play LeadersLearning to Lead

• The Training
• 20 Year 5 6 selected following a route chosen
  by the school (application / nomination etc)
• One school mentor identified (lunchtime
  supervisor / play leader / class teacher with
  specific role etc) who is fully on board with the
  programme and will help to deploy the Play
  Leaders during lunchtimes.
• Training will be led by SSCOs and based on the
  Sports Leaders UK Young Leaders resource which
  focuses on specific skills such as giving
  instructions, the organisation of people and
  equipment and the use of space.
• Follow up training will be provided where
  possible to re-inspire and motivate the play
  leaders and to provide new ideas and games.
• A new cohort of Play Leaders can be trained when
  necessary to allow for new leaders to experience
  the programme and established leaders can help to
  mentor them.

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Play LeadersLearning to Lead

• The Assessment Incentives
• Log books supplied to each Play Leader to record
  their experience and signed off daily or weekly
  by mentor.
• Additionally a register of attendance needs to be
  kept to monitor both the success of the programme
  and the level of achievement of the pupils.
• Following the training, the Play Leaders can work
  towards the following awards
• 15 sessions Baverstock Play Leaders Bronze
  Award
• 25 sessions Baverstock Play Leaders Silver
  Award
• 35 sessions Baverstock Play Leaders Gold Award
• Certificates (and a reflective top?) are awarded
  on completion of the training.
• Badges are available which have to be purchased
  by the partnership to recognise the Play Leaders
  commitment and achievement.
• It is hoped to hold a Play Leaders mini
  conference in 2009 to recognise all leaders who
  achieve the top level awards.

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Play LeadersLearning to Lead

• Play Managers
• It is planned that once the programme is off the
  ground, two of the new play leaders from each
  primary school will be chosen to be Play
  Managers, with responsibility for getting the
  group together and reporting anything to the
  teacher in charge.
• The managers will also sit on a partnership
  primary school sports council to represent their
  schools and bring their ideas to the partnership
  about what sports and activities they would like
  to see introduced in their school.
• Suggestion boxes will be placed in each school
  and pupils encouraged to submit ideas and
  requests for PE and school sport.
• School sport notice boards could be introduced
  into schools to enable the Play Managers and
  Leaders to promote new games etc but will also
  enable promotion of other partnership wide sports
  and activities as well as promoting community
  sports clubs.
• The Play Managers could be responsible for
  selecting new equipment etc.

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Play LeadersLearning to Lead

• Monitoring Evaluation
• Initial decisions to be made on what were
  monitoring e.g. number of behavioural incidents /
  concentration in class after lunch. A baseline
  needs to be taken and a decision made on how
  these areas will be monitored.
• SSCos to report on the number of Play Leaders
  trained in each school and the number of sessions
  undertaken by the new Play Leaders.
• Photographs and video footage (with permission)
  will also be taken to produce a short DVD to
  promote the scheme in future years.
• Schools and the Play Leaders will be provided
  with books to monitor any anecdotes, comments and
  evidence. This will include feedback from the
  pupils themselves.

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Schools Commitment

• One PLT Days funding to cover the cost of the
  training, resource, certificate needs to be
  allocated for the project. (A further PLT days
  funding can be claimed by the school if new
  playground equipment is needed).
• Access to up to 6-hours of the Play Leaders time
  to allow training.
• A classroom and space (indoor incase of bad
  weather) for the training.
• A Play Leader Mentor with a remit to support the
  new Play Leaders, monitor and evaluate the
  programme for the school and sign off the log
  books.
• Monitoring and Evaluation!

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Partnership Commitment

• Development, launch full coordination of the
  Baverstock Play Leaders Programme.
• Annual training for up to 20 Play Leaders per
  school.
• Support in running an assembly to promote the
  scheme to potential new year 5 6 Play Leaders
  and again to promote the new Play Leaders to the
  rest of the school.
• Ongoing support for the scheme.
• Supply of certificates and badges on request.

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The Future

• Baverstock SSP Roll Out
• The development and deployment of young leaders
  is an a key element of the PE and School Sports
  Strategy (PESSCL) and it is the intention that
  every school within the Baverstock SSP will
  access this opportunity by July 2009.
• If all 24 primary schools within the partnership
  train 20 pupils this will result in 480 new Play
  Leaders.
• It is hoped this will also increase the quantity
  and quality of informal activity / structured
  play within each school.
• Inter Partnership Work
• Mini-conferences could be held across
  partnerships to bring together the high achieving
  Play Leaders from many different schools.
• International Work
• Baverstock Sports College has a link with a
  developing school in South Africa. It is hoped
  that we can take the programme over to South
  Africa to train their Play Leaders following the
  same format.

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Get Involved

• To register your school for Baverstock Play
  Leader training
• please contact your SSCO
• to discuss how it can work for your school