FACILITATORS: Caryn Smith, Headteacher of St James Primary, Nicky Haverson, Physical Activity Specialist Strategic Lead for Children and Young People at Active Gloucestershire and Jon Millen, Headteacher of Shurdington Primary

What challenges do you face in creating active playtimes at your school, such as limited space, lack of equipment, safety concerns, budgets and balancing inclusive activities for all students… what do you need to move through these challenges to create that space you feel your student need? Nicky and Caryn will explore these challenges, share some solutions and open the floor to the myriad of ideas that might help you and your school create vibrant playgrounds at breaktime.

FACILITATOR: Lisa Harford, Head of Education, Gloucestershire Learning Alliance (GLA)

Getting your school culture right is key to the success of school improvement. It should sit at the heart of your school and should involve all stakeholders. Building a powerful and empowering vision and living it out every day is a challenge. This session will delve into some structures to support this journey. We will unpick the power of Kotter’s change model, the change curve and the importance of creating and consolidating social norms in order to build a strong culture and effect change.

FACILITATOR: Marijana Filipovic-Carter, Head of Family Support, Move More CIO

There are many reasons why children miss school. Emotionally based school avoidance (EBSA) is one of the reasons that is particularly rooted in anxiety or fear with potentially great consequences for the child. This session will provide an overview of EBSA, including recognising warning signs and triggers and practical techniques for supporting children in schools and tools for working with their parents.

FACILITATOR: Matt Coldrey, Senior Lecturer in Sports Coaching, Physical Education and School Sport Hartpury University & College

PE and Life Long Motivation to be Active – Understanding the psychological impact that positive experiences of PE can have on life long participation in physical activity, with examples of what motivational PE looks like in practice.

Facilitator: Elliot Townsend, Move More CIO Physical Activity & Health Coach, Sam Thomas, Move More CIO Multi Sport & Health Coach 

A practical session aiming to introduce some alternative physical activities that could be used to supplement or expand your curriculum or extra-curricular provision. This is an opportunity to try activities such as soft archery, kinball, new age kurling and speed stacking and examine how they could add to your physical activity provision.

FACILITATOR: Claire Hosking, Yoga Teacher,  Shift Movement 

In this Shift Movement session you will be guided through practical tools and techniques to regulate yourself, to reduce stress and find clarity and confidence. You will also learn the power of using these tools for co-regulation. Short, effective and fun exercises will leave you inspired with plenty of creative ways that you can implement this into your school. In our talk Claire shares stories from her personal life demonstrating used the tools to regulate herself in life’s challenging moments and the impacts it’s had on her children and helped her parenting and working at a primary school in the Forest of Dean.

FACILITATOR: Zoe Helme – National CAS Research and Development Officer, Caryn Smith – St James Primary School Headteacher, Jeanette Quinn – Move More CIO Deputy Chief Executive Officer & CAS Lead, Nicky Harverson – Active Gloucestershire Strategic Lead for Children & Young People, Manda Reedman – GHLL Lead Teacher & Deputy Head Elmbridge Primary School

This lightening talk will present an overview of the national Creating Active Schools Programme. Participants will be guided through the onboarding process for schools and localities, with a demonstration of the online digital hub, and how this can facilitate organisational and cultural change for physical activity within your schools

FACILITATOR: Aisling Stranack, DGAT Regional Effectiveness Lead

Attendance has been identified as one of the key problems affecting children’s achievement, wellbeing, and wider development. Since the Covid-19 pandemic, a trend has emerged showing that a percentage of children regularly missing school is rising. Increase your knowledge and understanding of barriers to attendance and engage further to reach families by adopting a new tried and tested 5-point model. 

FACILITATOR: Guy Stirling Lee, Active Gloucestershire Active Lives Coordinator

What’s in it for your school? How to take part, how to manage and what to do with the results and incentives.

FACILITATOR: Iain Anderson, Department for Education Team Leader for Physical Education & Sports Premium

Iain Anderson from the Department for Education’s PE and Sports Premium team will be discussing the premium, permitted spend, the five key indicators and this year’s mandatory introduction of the online reporting tool. There will also be an opportunity to ask questions relating to the PE and Sports Premium.

FACILITATOR: Matt Coldrey, Hartpury University & College, Senior Lecturer in Sports Coaching, Physical Education & School Sport

Understanding Neurodiversity in PE and School Sport – Understanding the neuroscience of ADHD and Autism, and how PE and sport can be designed in ways to accommodate neurodiversity.

Facilitators: Marijana Filipovic-Carter, Head of Family Support, Move More 

The current education system is mostly based on a one-size-fits-all principle, creating a growing number of ‘square pegs’ – children and their families who don’t fit. As a result, they resist coming to school or stop coming altogether. This session will provide insights into barriers to attendance experienced by many ‘square pegs’ and their families. It will also critically reflect on the most common practices employed by schools to solve the problem, while sharing the most recent research findings on the most effective tools.

FACILITATOR: Rachael Bullingham, Senior Lecturer, University of Gloucestershire

• Acknowledge the importance of language
• Examining trans experience in sport and PE
• Providing recommendations for more inclusive practices

FACILITATOR: Rebecca Foster MBE, Principal Lecturer in Adapted Physical Education, University of Worcester

Don’t find time to include everyone in PE as you could do? Running low on inclusive, quick and useful ideas? Need to enable your TA to help support a PE lesson? Some practical ideas are shown and discussed in this session.

FACILITATOR: Sam Rowson, Head of Education, Move More CIO 

A practical session looking at the introduction of competition during physical activity. We will examine how to build competition in a manageable, structured way for children and build resilience in situations surrounding winning and losing. We will also look at how to adapt provision for children who may struggle with competitive scenarios.

FACILITATOR: Lisa Harford, Head of Education, Gloucestershire Learning Alliance (GLA)

Getting your school culture right is key to the success of school improvement. It should sit at the heart of your school and should involve all stakeholders. Building a powerful and empowering vision and living it out every day is a challenge. This session will delve into some structures to support this journey. We will unpick the power of Kotter’s change model, the change curve and the importance of creating and consolidating social norms in order to build a strong culture and effect change.

Facilitator: Jo Atkins, Thinktravel Coordinator, Gloucestershire County Council

Ideas and examples of how to promote sustainable and active travel within schools.
Programmes and incentives such as using Modeshift Stars, Big Walk and Wheel Week. Helping schools kick-start healthier lifestyles, safer environments and enhanced air quality in their local communities.

FACILITATOR: Rob Toomer Active Gloucestershire Senior Project Officer – Programme Support

Pedal Power: Yorkley and Parkend Primary Schools’ Bike Library Success – Hear the inspiring story of how Yorkley and Parkend Primary schools accessed and used different funding opportunities to create their own bike library and partnered with a local trail provider and a skilled coach to help students access the miles of trails in their community. Learn how different funding opportunities, like crowdfunding pledges, grants and resources can be used to enhance physical activity opportunities for individuals and communities in need.

Facilitator: Jo Atkins, Gloucestershire County Council

Ideas and examples of how to promote sustainable and active travel within schools.
Programmes and incentives such as using Modeshift Stars, Big Walk and Wheel Week. Helping schools kick-start healthier lifestyles, safer environments and enhanced air quality in their local communities.

FACILITATORS: Zoe Helme – National CAS Research and Development Officer, Caryn Smith – St James Primary School Headteacher, Jeanette Quinn – Move More CIO Deputy Chief Executive Officer & CAS Lead, Nicky Harverson – Active Gloucestershire Strategic Lead for Children & Young People, Manda Reedman – GHLL Lead Teacher & Deputy Head Elmbridge Primary School

A sharing of national and local school perspectives having used the CAS framework to build a culture of physical activity throughout and beyond the school day, linking with the Gloucestershire’s Healthy School Award. Come and find out what the framework is, how it can be used and the effect it has on the school’s culture of physical activity across the whole school and community. Physical Activity: everyone’s responsibility! 

Facilitators: Marijana Filipovic-Carter, Head of Family Support, Move More CIO

All children disagree with their teachers (and parents!) from time to time, but what to do when this isn’t just a temporary phase? Both Oppositional Defiance Disorder (ODD) and Pathological Demand Avoidance (PDA) are likely to dominate a child’s life and behaviour, potentially causing many issues both at school and at home. These two are often confused resulting in undesirable consequences for all parties involved. In this session, we will be looking at signs, characteristics and causes of both, as well as critically reflecting on some common adult responses to ODD and PDA. Finally, we will be sharing the most recent research findings on the most effective age and developmentally appropriate tools to use when helping a child with ODD or PDA.

FACILITATOR: Danielle Morley, Northway Infants School Headteacher, Rob Evans, Carrant Brook Junior School Headteacher, Sam Rowson, Move More CIO Head of Education

During this session, we will examine how to build a PE curriculum to meet the needs of your children. We will look at how to build and map progression into your curriculum across year groups and key stages whilst maintaining breadth and depth of learning. Danielle Morley (Northway Infant School) and Rob Evans (Carrant Brook Junior School) will also deliver a case study on how they have developed strong PE curriculums that reflect the need of their children. 

FACILITATORS: Jordan Marter & James Hemming Move More CIO Physical Activity and Health Managers

A practical session looking at the application of the STEP principle using tag rugby as the example. This session will demonstrate how lessons can be adapted to meet a range of needs within a mainstream classroom, both in the planning and delivery stages.

FACILITATOR: Matt Coldrey, Senior Lecturer in Sports Coaching, Physical Education and School Sport

Can’t dance? Join this practical session which will give you the basic dance skills and confidence to teach dance within your school. 

FACILITATOR: Alice Cline, Busy Brain Breaks Founder and Behavioural Scientist

This session will demonstrate different types of ‘Busy Brain Breaks’ including physical activity, mindfulness and yoga flows, as well as sharing ‘top tips’ from teachers who currently implement Busy Brain Breaks within their classrooms. After the session, attendees can access the ‘Busy Brain Break’ platform for free, which enables access to 90+ videos, ranging from 2.5 minutes to 8 minutes in length.

FACILITATOR: Aisling Stranack, DGAT Regional Effectiveness Lead

Attendance has been identified as one of the key problems affecting children’s achievement, wellbeing, and wider development. Since the Covid-19 pandemic, a trend has emerged showing that a percentage of children regularly missing school is rising. Increase your knowledge and understanding of barriers to attendance and engage further to reach families by adopting a new tried and tested 5-point model. 

Facilitator: Jo Atkins, Gloucestershire County Council

Ideas and examples of how to promote sustainable and active travel within schools.
Programmes and incentives such as using Modeshift Stars, Big Walk and Wheel Week. Helping schools kick-start healthier lifestyles, safer environments and enhanced air quality in their local communities.