For: PE Leads, school support staff

Applicable to: PE & Sport Premium Funding, curriculum subject leadership, workforce support and training, inclusion of all children, wider enrichment and opportunities.

Keynote: The Future of Physical Education – Vision, Challenges, and Opportunities

Kate Thornton-Bousfield – Chief Executive Officer, Association for Physical Education (afPE)

Workshop ONe Descriptors

Inclusive PE and School Sport – Now and Next: Lessons from 2024, Vision for 2028

Kelly Fellows – National Development Manager for Inclusion – Youth Sport Trust

How can we ensure every pupil, including those with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND), has access to high-quality, meaningful PE and school sport?

In this session, Kelly Fellows will explore the current state of inclusive PE, sharing key learnings from the national Inclusion 2024 programme and what they mean for schools today.

Looking ahead, Kelly will introduce the Inclusion 2028 grant and upcoming initiatives, giving you the insight and tools to prepare for the next phase in developing truly inclusive PE and school sport provision. Expect a forward-looking, practical session that blends reflection on recent progress with a clear vision for the future.
Expect to Explore: Key insights from the Inclusion 2024 programme, practical examples of effective inclusive PE and sport provision, how to prepare for Inclusion 2028 and make the most of new initiatives, strategies for embedding inclusion into whole-school practice.

Audience: PE Leads, SENDCOs, Senior Leaders
Session Type: Theory

How to Improve Attendance – and Reap the Benefits

Marijana Filipovic Carter – Head of Family Support – Move More

Want to consider a suggested framework to evaluate and improve attendance policies, practices, and parental engagement?
Keen to use your school’s attendance data more effectively to identify issues, personalise support, and improve overall attendance rates?

Improving attendance isn’t just about reducing absences—it’s about creating a whole-school culture that values every day in school.
This session explores how to take a strategic and sustainable approach to attendance, including how to analyse and use your school’s own data to drive improvement. Discover a robust framework for self-evaluation—covering policy, data, practice, parents, and personalisation—and learn how to embed an attendance-first mindset across your staff, pupils, and families.
Expect to explore: Building a school culture that champions good attendance, strategic tools for attendance management, a self-evaluation framework: Policy, Data, Practice, Parents, Personalisation and how to use your school’s data to inform and improve outcomes

Audience: Headteachers, Senior Leaders, and Family Support Practitioners
Session Type: Theory

Creating Active Schools: Foundations for Change

Jeanette Quinn – CAS Lead & Deputy CEO, Move More
Nicky Harverson – Strategic Lead for Children and Young People, Active Gloucestershire

What does it really take to embed a culture of physical activity across an entire school—beyond just PE and sports clubs?

This dynamic session will uncover the essential foundations that drive sustainable change and explore how putting movement at the heart of school life transforms outcomes for both pupils and staff.
Packed with evidence, real-school examples, and insights from leading experts, this session offers practical tools and inspiration to help you champion an active school ethos and become part of our Active School’s programme, expanding nationally and across Gloucestershire.
Expect to explore: Proven strategies to build an active culture across the whole school, the ripple effect on wellbeing, behaviour, and learning, research-driven insights into what sustains change and why this matters now more than ever.

Audience: Head teachers, Senior Leaders, Health & Wellbeing Leads, PE Leads.
Session Type: Theory

Teaching Fundamental Movement Skills (FMS) in Key Stage 1

James Hemming – Physical Activity & Health Manager, Move More

How confident are you in identifying and teaching the essential, key Fundamental Movement Skills in KS1?
How do you currently ensure that all children, regardless of ability, can develop their movement skills effectively?

This session focuses on Fundamental Movement Skills (FMS)—what they are, why they matter, and how to develop them effectively in Key Stage 1.

Exploring the key areas of FMS and their role in supporting wider physical, social, and cognitive development. Progressing onto a lively practical segment packed with fun, engaging, and age-appropriate activities that deliver a range of movement outcomes while keeping children motivated and active.
Expect to explore: what Fundamental Movement Skills are and why they are essential in KS1, how FMS support wider development beyond PE, practical, engaging activities to develop each skill area, how to keep learning fun, purposeful, and inclusive for all children

Audience: PE Leads and Class Teachers working with Key Stage 1 pupils.
Session Type: Practically

Workshop Two Descriptors

PE & Sport Premium Funding: Maximising Impact

Sam Rowson – Head of Education, Move More

Want suggestions how to better use the PE & Sport Premium funding to create sustainable improvements that benefit all pupils?

Clarification needed around the key rules, indicators, and reporting requirements to be followed to meet DfE expectations?

This session will provide an opportunity to explore effective usage of the PE and Sport Premium. We’ll cover permitted spend, the five key indicators, and the mandatory online reporting tool—while exploring practical ways to manage competing resource pressures in schools. 

Expect to explore: the rules and guidance on permitted spend, how to align funding to the five key indicators and effective strategies for sustainable impact.

Audience: Headteachers, Senior Leaders, and PE Leads
Session Type: Theory

Planning for Potential: Proactive Strategies for Neuroinclusive Classrooms

Matt Coldrey: Neuroinclusion Trainer and Consultant

Want to design lessons that prevent challenging behaviours before they arise?
Interested in simple adjustments that can unlock the potential of children with diverse needs?

This workshop takes a preventative approach to neuroinclusion. Rather than waiting until challenges emerge, we’ll explore how to build supportive environments and lesson plans that anticipate different needs from the start. The focus will be on practical ways to reduce barriers, create consistency, and foster confidence for all children, especially those with neurodiverse profiles. Participants will leave with a toolkit of strategies to make planning and classroom management more proactive, effective, and inclusive.

Expect to Explore: The importance of anticipatory practice in lesson planning, structuring routines and environments to reduce stress and uncertainty, approaches to classroom communication that support diverse ways of thinking and learning, proactive strategies for engagement, transitions, and emotional regulation and how inclusive planning benefits all children, not just those with a diagnosis

Audience: Teachers, teaching assistants, coaches, and any staff working with children in mainstream or specialist settings.
Session type: Theory/discursive

Interventions in Action – Sensory Circuits and Busy Brain Breaks

Alan Clayton – Head of SEND, Beck Bennett – SEND Physical Activity Manager & Jordan Marter – Physical Activity & Health Manager –  Move More

Could short bursts of movement transform attention, self-regulation, and learning readiness in your classroom?

This practical workshop introduces two powerful interventions — Sensory Circuits and Busy Brain Breaks — designed to help pupils reset, refocus, and re-engage.

You’ll explore the science behind movement-based interventions, learn how to identify pupils who would benefit most, and gain hands-on experience in delivering short, purposeful activities that meet a variety of sensory and movement needs. These strategies can be embedded seamlessly into the school day to boost focus, emotional regulation, and participation.
Expect to Explore: What Sensory Circuits and Busy Brain Breaks are and why they work, how to design and adapt sessions for different age groups and needs, ways to integrate these activities into the school timetable without disruption and real-life examples of impact on pupils’ learning and behaviour.

Audience: Class Teachers, Teaching Assistants, SENDCOs, PE Leads
Session Type: Practical

Adaptive PE – Making Lessons Work for Every Child

Rebecca Foster MBE – Principal lecturer in Adapted PE, University of Worcester

How can we make PE lessons truly work for every child, regardless of ability or additional needs?

In this highly practical session, Rebecca Foster MBE will share adaptable strategies to create inclusive, engaging PE experiences that remove barriers and encourage participation.

You’ll explore simple but powerful changes to activities, equipment, and the learning environment that can increase confidence, enjoyment, and achievement for all learners. Attendees will leave with a toolkit of ready-to-use ideas to design lessons where every child can feel capable, involved, and successful.

Expect to Explore: Practical adaptations to make activities accessible and engaging, ways to modify equipment and environments to suit different needs, strategies for building confidence and positive attitudes towards PE and how to ensure inclusion without diluting challenge or fun.

Audience: PE Leads, Classroom Teachers, SENCOs
Session Type: Practical

Workshop Three Descriptors

Becoming an effective pe lead

Sam Rowson: Head of Education, Move More

Want to clarify the core responsibilities and best practices for leading PE effectively in my school?
Aiming to better understand which documents, resources, and action points will help you develop and improve PE provision?

This session is designed specifically for teachers developing their subject leadership specifically in PE, offering the knowledge, tools, and confidence you need to make an impact.

We’ll explore the role of a PE Lead in depth—covering core responsibilities, essential documentation, and the best resources to support your work. You’ll hear good practice examples and leave with clear, tailored action points to help you drive PE forwards in your school.
Expect to explore: the key responsibilities of a PE Lead and how to manage them effectively, good practice examples from other schools, how to use essential documents and resources to support your role, with time for you to develop your own personalised action points to strengthen PE provision in your school

Audience: PE Leads within their first 1–2 years of leading the subject.
Session Type: Theory

Think Travel: Embedding Active Travel in School Communities

Jo Atkins (Think Travel Manager) & Ollie Hazel (Think Travel Team), Gloucestershire County Council

Looking to increase the number of pupils walking, wheeling or cycling to school?
Want practical, proven strategies to build a culture of active, sustainable travel in and around your school?

Join the Think Travel team as they share real-world school examples, successful programmes, and tools like Modeshift STARS, Patrol Training, and Big Walk and Wheel Week. Learn how to create healthier lifestyles, improve air quality, and foster safer, more engaged school communities through active travel.

Expect to explore: tried-and-tested ways to promote active travel, incentives and frameworks to support whole-school participation, real-life case studies and success stories, how to get started—or go further—with sustainable travel

Audience: Headteachers, Senior Leaders, Health & Wellbeing Leads, and Family Engagement Leads
Session Type: Theory.

The Lighthouse Programme – Guiding Children Through Trauma

Marijana Filipovic-Carter – Head of Family Support & Alan Clayton Head of SEND Move More

Want to understand how to support children through trauma using a structured, compassionate approach?
Keen to learn practical strategies that restore emotional safety and help pupils re-engage with learning?

This workshop introduces The Lighthouse Programme – a trauma-enhanced, child-centred approach designed to guide children through recovery. You’ll learn how to screen for individual needs, create tailored recovery plans, and deliver targeted activities using the 3Cs Trauma Model: Calm (brain stem), Connect (limbic system), and Communicate (cortical brain). Real-life examples will show how this approach can improve emotional regulation, relationships, and learning outcomes.

Expect to Explore: The principles and process of the Lighthouse Programme, from screening to intervention, how to apply the 3Cs Trauma Model to everyday school practice, practical strategies and activity ideas to support children’s emotional recovery, and ways to embed trauma-informed practice across the whole school

Audience: Senior Leaders, Family Support Practitioners, Pastoral Staff, SENDCOs
Session Type: Theory and Practical

Attracting the ADHD athletes: Creating safe sport so they thrive

Dr Josephine Perry – Chartered Sport Psychologist, Performance in Mind

How can we help children with ADHD stay mentally regulated, maintain social connections, and build confidence—particularly in sport and physical activity settings?

In this engaging session, Dr Josephine Perry, Chartered Sport Psychologist, will build a deeper understanding of juniors with ADHD; how they are motivated, the strengths they can bring to a team and class and the areas where they may struggle and may need extra support. We will discuss 20 ways that you can shape the school sporting environment to help all children thrive, but especially those with ADHD. will share practical, evidence-based tools, techniques, and strategies to help young people with ADHD thrive and succeed.

Expect to explore: How ADHD affects regulation, confidence, and social interaction in physical activity, practical strategies to support and engage children with ADHD, ways to reframe ADHD traits as strengths rather than deficits and build inclusive environments where all children can thrive.

Audience: PE Teachers, SENCOs
Session Type: Theory

Collaboration and Competition: Finding the Right Balance

Jordan Marter: Physical Activity & Health Manager, Move More

How can we introduce collaboration and competition in a way that supports every child’s development and enjoyment of PE?
What practical activities can be used to introduce age-appropriate competition in a fun, inclusive, and progressive way?

This session explores the spectrum between collaboration and competition—and how it connects to the aims of the National Curriculum. We’ll discuss strategies for using this model to guide children into competition gradually and positively, minimising potential pitfalls such as anxiety, disengagement, or poor sportsmanship. The practical element will provide creative, age-appropriate activities that blend teamwork with competition, giving teachers ready-to-use ideas to take back to their schools.

Expect to explore: the relationship between collaboration, competition, and National Curriculum aims, how to introduce competition in a developmentally appropriate way, practical activities that balance teamwork and competitive challenge, approaches to avoid negative experiences around competition

Audience: PE Leads and Teachers
Session Type: Practical

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Partners in progress – Reimagining Parental Engagement in School

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

What if parental engagement wasn’t just an initiative—but a mindset woven into every part of school life? 

How do we move from ‘involving parents’ to genuinely empowering them as co-creators of their child’s journey? What could authentic “parent-school” partnership really look like? 

In today’s educational landscape, meaningful parental engagement is more than a tick-box exercise—it’s a powerful catalyst for children’s wellbeing and school success as it can have ripple effects on attendance, behaviour and learning. This is why this interactive workshop invites educators, leaders, and family support practitioners to rethink traditional approaches and explore innovative, inclusive strategies that truly connect with families. Drawing on research and real-world examples, we’ll unpack what authentic partnership looks like, how to overcome common barriers, and how to co-create a culture where every parent feels seen, heard, and valued. Whether you’re refining your current offer or building from the ground up, this session will leave you motivated, equipped, and ready to lead change.

Expect to explore: Strategies to strengthen parent–school relationships; how to make parental engagement more equitable; (less obvious) barriers to parental engagement; strategic approaches to parental engagement; practical strategies for building and maintaining relationships between parents and staff; what meaningfully involving and engaging parents entails.

Audience: Headteachers, Senior Leaders, and Family Support practitioners
Session Type: Theory

Introducing Physically Active Learning (PAL)

Sam Rowson: Head of Education, Move More

Want to make lessons more engaging, active, and memorable—without losing focus on learning outcomes?
Which PAL activities and resources will work best in my school’s learning environments?

This interactive session introduces the concept of Physically Active Learning (PAL) and explores how movement can enhance teaching across the curriculum. In the first part, we’ll unpack what PAL is, why it benefits both pupils and teachers, and how it can be embedded in everyday practice. The second part will be hands-on—giving you the chance to try activities, discuss how they could work in your school, and share ideas with colleagues. You’ll also be signposted to free PAL resources to support your next steps.

Expect to explore: What Physically Active Learning is and why it works, practical activities to apply in your own classrooms, examples of PAL across different subjects and age groups, free resources to help embed PAL in your school.

Audience: Senior Leaders, PE Leads, and Classroom Teachers
Session Type: Theory and practical.

Adaptive PE in Special Schools – Matching Curriculum to Need

Rebecca Foster MBE – Principal lecturer in Adapted PE, University of Worcester

How can we create a PE curriculum in special schools that truly meets every learner’s needs?

This practical workshop focuses on designing and delivering PE that responds to the full spectrum of abilities within a special school setting. You’ll explore how to assess and understand differing ability levels, adapt curriculum content, and balance appropriate challenge with accessibility. Using real-world examples and adaptable activity ideas, you’ll discover ways to create engaging, meaningful lessons that build physical development, social interaction, and confidence — from pupils requiring high levels of support to those developing greater independence.

Expect to Explore: Assessment approaches to identify and respond to varying ability levels, curriculum adaptations to meet a wide range of needs, practical activity ideas that are fun, inclusive, and purposeful, strategies for balancing challenge with accessibility for all pupils.

Audience: PE Leads, Special School Teachers, SENDCOs
Session Type: Practical

Play Their Way & The Language of Control
Nicky Harverson Active Gloucestershire

How can we harness the power of play to inspire creativity, confidence, and a lifelong love of movement?

In this thought-provoking session, Richard Cheetham MBE explores how early physical activity experiences shape long-term engagement, and why a playful approach to learning can be the key to unlocking potential in every child.  You’ll discover how to play to learn and learn to play, as well as how the language of control can impact motivation, autonomy, and creativity. Expect to leave with a renewed understanding of how to create an environment where play drives learning, and learning fuels a lifetime of active participation.

Expect to explore: how early experiences in physical activity influence long-term engagement, what the role of playfulness is in fostering creativity and learning, how the “language of control” affects motivation and autonomy, as well as experience some practical ideas to create a playful, learner-centred PE environment.

Audience: PE Teachers
Session Type: Theory