Dumfries and Galloway Girls in Sport

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Dumfries and Galloway Girls in Sport
Kay GibsonDevelopment Officer PE Lee
SetonActive School Manager Stuart Binnie PT
Healthy Living Carolyn Taylor ASCS PE
Teacher Karen McKie Primary PE Specialist
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Background

• Dumfries and Galloway rural local authority
• 16 Secondary, 106 primary
• Why Girls in Sport?
• Stranraer Academy

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Girls In Sport Stranraer

• The Health Club
• The Challenge
• How we started
• What we found out
• What we did

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PartnershipsWho was involved?

• Active Schools / Leisure and Sport
• Local Business Community
• Education School and Central Staff

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Impact

• Sustainability
• Attitude of girls
• Looking ahead curricular changes

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Effect on the PE Department

• Targeted area for PE Development Plan
• Pilot swimming / racket sports single sex
  positive feedback
• New S3 programme
• Senior Activities PE programme

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S3 Programme
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Senior Activities PE Programme
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Future Developments

• Pleased by changes implemented into P.E.
  curriculum over 2007-08 which have resulted from
  involvement in Girls in Sport initiative.
• Hope to introduce some single sex classes into
  S1/S2 curricular P.E. programme from 2008-09
  (focus on swimming against other activities).
• Develop S3 model for session 2008-09 to promote
  greater degree of pupil choice.
• Develop Senior P.E model to create an
  additional all girls class if felt appropriate.

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Primary

• Built in to timetable
• Activities
• Change attitudes early
• Transition club
• Partnerships

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Issues and what helped

• Planning and time
• Money and sustainability
• Timetabling for curriculum PE
• Having the right instructors
• Helpful partners

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Success For the Local Authority

• More Girls Participating clubs and PE
• Partnership working
• Communication between primary and secondary
• Increasing choice
• Transition

Girls in Sport / Active Schools programme
positively influenced Physical Education
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What we do next

• Continue to source funding
• Sustain and build on success
• Increase number of clusters involved
• Encourage schools to look at issues

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Questions