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    Workshops
    08:00 - 09:30 Registration and Exhibition
    09:30 - 11:00 Welcome and Ministerial Address & Keynote Address
    Active Learning Zone
    08:00 - 09:30 Registration and Exhibition
    09:30 - 11:00 Welcome and Ministerial Address & Keynote Address
    Mini Keynotes
    08:00 - 09:30 Registration and Exhibition
    09:30 - 11:00 Welcome and Ministerial Address & Keynote Address
    Learning Lounge
    08:00 - 09:30 Registration and Exhibition
    09:30 - 11:00 Welcome and Ministerial Address & Keynote Address
    Exhibition
    08:00 - 09:30 Registration and Exhibition
    09:30 - 11:00 Welcome and Ministerial Address & Keynote Address
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    Workshops
    09:30 - 11:00 Welcome and Ministerial Address & Keynote Address
    11:00 - 11:30 Exhibition and Refreshments
    11.30 - 12.30 W1 Using the Specialism to impact on the Community - 'Wider Community' Self Evaluation View
    Synopsys: The community aspect of Sports Colleges is integral to the SEF. This workshop will guide schools through the fundamentals of a 'Wider Community' framework which supports effective self review.
    Audience: HT/DOS
    Deliverers: Shaun Heathcote
    Development Manager, Youth Sport Trust
    11.30 - 12.30 W2 A Guide to the Sport and Active Leisure Diploma View
    Synopsys: This workshop will outline the key components of the diploma, including employer engagement and IAG. It will also detail the key time lines from gateway application to delivery.
    Audience: SL DOS
    Deliverers: Emma Cannell and Sue Hook.
    Sue Hook from Skills Active.
    11.30 - 12.30 W3 Using the specialism in target subjects View
    Synopsys: A session aimed at supporting new Sports Colleges introduce strategies to identify and utilise the strengths of the specialism to support other target setting subjects. 
    Audience: SL DOS HT
    Deliverers: Matt Pauling, Development Manager, Youth Sport Trust, Bev Whiteside, Development Co-ordinator, Languages and Sport, Youth Sport Trust, Matt Barratt, Leader of PE Faculty and Jane Elam, Assistant Leader of Learning - Communications Faculty, Hipperholme and Lightcliffe Sports College and Peter Gibbins, Director of Sport, and Sally Dunne, Director of Languages, Stourport High School and VIth Form Centre
    11.30 - 12.30 W4 Using an alternative curriculum/delivery to engage the disengaged View
    Synopsys: Using the specialism, within an alternative curriculum, to raise aspirations, self esteem and confidence to re-engage young people and improvestheir achievements and attitudes to learning.
    Audience: DOS HT
    Deliverers: Fiona Derrick, Assistant Head, Joseph Whitaker Sports College, John Savage, Assistant Head Teacher and Director of Specialism,Pickering High School amd Wayne Clark, former British Heavyweight Karatae Champion
    11.30 - 12.30 W5 KS3 Curriculum View
    Synopsys: You will have an opportunity to see practical examples and learn from Sports Colleges who have piloted the new secondary curriculum in Physical Education.
    Audience: SL DOS
    Deliverers: Jo Radford, Director of Specialism , Bridgemary Sports College, Clare Smith, Assistant Head of PE, Wright Robinson Sports College,Andy Hulbert, Director of Specialism, Ivbridge Sports College and Mike Halshaw, Director of Specialism, Wright Robinson Sports College
    11.30 - 12.30 W6 Wider Community - Are you an Outward Facing School? View
    Synopsys: Are partnerships at the core of your community plan? This workshop identifies who your key partners should be and provides guidance on evidencing learning outcomes through the 'Wider Community'.
    Audience: DOS HT
    Deliverers: Denise May, Director of Specialism, Sport, Budehaven Community School
    11.30 - 12.30 W7 Language Leaders View
    Synopsys: Using languages to develop a positive attitude to learning.
    Audience: SL DOS
    Deliverers: Gill Soulsby, Director of Specialism, and Chevan Paterson, Assistant Head of Modern Foreign Languages, Bramcote Hills Sport and Community College
    Active Learning Zone
    09:30 - 11:00 Welcome and Ministerial Address & Keynote Address
    11:00 - 11:30 Exhibition and Refreshments
    11.30 - 12.30 ALZ1 New Secondary Curriculum View
    Synopsys: Practical examples of new ideas and ways of delivering the new KS 3 curriculum from schools who have piloted their curriculum over last 18 months.
    Audience: SL
    Deliverers: Lesley Wood, Subject Leader, Chesterfield Sports College and Kate Thornton Bousfield, Subject Leader, Stanley Sports College
    11.30 - 12.30 ALZ2 Science and Sport View
    Synopsys: David James and his team will be running a session that uses a variety of interactive apparatus and ideas to explore the links between sport and STEM in an innovative and engaging way.
    Audience: SL DOS
    Deliverers: Dr David James, Senior Sports Engineer, Centre for Sport and Exercise Science, Sheffield Hallam University
    Mini Keynotes
    09:30 - 11:00 Welcome and Ministerial Address & Keynote Address
    11:00 - 11:30 Exhibition and Refreshments
    Learning Lounge
    09:30 - 11:00 Welcome and Ministerial Address & Keynote Address
    11:00 - 11:30 Exhibition and Refreshments
    11.30 - 13.00 LL1 Using Innovative approaches to raise achievement View
    Synopsys: Sports Colleges and Academies that are focussing on raising achievement through engaging new partners and relationships with pupils, staff and parents.
    Audience: DOS HT
    Deliverers: Pat Cottis, Director of Specialism, Harefield Academy and Debbie Ramm-Harple, Director of Specialism and Vice Principle Capital City Academy
    11.30 - 13.00 LL2 Specialism Infrastructure – getting the best out of your specialism View
    Synopsys: Examining the strengths of systems and structures to train and develop staff towards raising standards.
    Audience: SL DOS
    Deliverers: Adam Arnell, Assistant Pirncipal and Training Manager and James Maddern, Subject Leader PE, King Alfreds Sports College
    11.30 - 13.00 LL3 Middle schools to model different approaches to transition View
    Synopsys: Middle schools to model different approaches to transition
    Audience: SL DOS HT
    Deliverers:
    11.30 - 13.00 LL4 Developing partners and sharing cultures View
    Synopsys: An open forum to discuss the rationale and developmental potential of international school links, including current and future opportunities.
    Audience: DOS HT
    Deliverers: Alan Bell, International Development Co-ordinator, Youth Sport Trust aned Andy Hansen, Senior Adviser Education and Sport, British Council
    11.30 - 13.00 LL5 Using the specialism in the new curriculum - connecting learning View
    Synopsys: Schools that embraced the opportunity afforded by the new curriculum to place their learners at the heart of curriculum design.
    Audience: SL DOS HT
    Deliverers: Aylesford & Astley
    11.30 - 13.00 LL6 Science and Sport learning together through action research View
    Synopsys: Feedback from Science Learning Centre / YST project to develop collaborative action research and the impact that it has had on the pilot schools.
    Audience: SL DOS
    Deliverers: John Wardle, Director, Science Learning Centre, Yorkshire and Humber
    11.30 - 13.00 LL7 Building a whole school approach to reading promotion View
    Synopsys: Joint YST / National Literacy Trust pilot for Reading Champions programme using Young Leaders to target literacy.
    Audience: DOS
    Deliverers: Julie Wardle, Headteacher and Niki Powers, PE/Sports specialist Leader, Carlton Central Junior School, Nottingham
    11.30 - 13.00 LL8 Using the Specialism to raise the profile and uptake of languages View
    Synopsys: Practical ideas to impact on your languages department.
    Audience: SL DOS
    Deliverers: Alison Lucas, Director of Learning MFL, Oasis Academy Wintringham
    Exhibition
    09:30 - 11:00 Welcome and Ministerial Address & Keynote Address
    11:00 - 11:30 Exhibition and Refreshments
    11:30 - 14:30 Exhibition View
    Synopsys: The exhibition will feature stands from over 125 commercial exhibitors and 70 sporting and educational partners. Lunch and refreshments will be served in the exhibition area throughout the two days. Each delegate will receive an exhibitor directory which provides a handy reference guide during and after the conference.
    Audience: General
    Deliverers:
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    Workshops
    11.30 - 12.30 W1 Using the Specialism to impact on the Community - 'Wider Community' Self Evaluation View
    Synopsys: The community aspect of Sports Colleges is integral to the SEF. This workshop will guide schools through the fundamentals of a 'Wider Community' framework which supports effective self review.
    Audience: HT/DOS
    Deliverers: Shaun Heathcote
    Development Manager, Youth Sport Trust
    11.30 - 12.30 W2 A Guide to the Sport and Active Leisure Diploma View
    Synopsys: This workshop will outline the key components of the diploma, including employer engagement and IAG. It will also detail the key time lines from gateway application to delivery.
    Audience: SL DOS
    Deliverers: Emma Cannell and Sue Hook.
    Sue Hook from Skills Active.
    11.30 - 12.30 W3 Using the specialism in target subjects View
    Synopsys: A session aimed at supporting new Sports Colleges introduce strategies to identify and utilise the strengths of the specialism to support other target setting subjects. 
    Audience: SL DOS HT
    Deliverers: Matt Pauling, Development Manager, Youth Sport Trust, Bev Whiteside, Development Co-ordinator, Languages and Sport, Youth Sport Trust, Matt Barratt, Leader of PE Faculty and Jane Elam, Assistant Leader of Learning - Communications Faculty, Hipperholme and Lightcliffe Sports College and Peter Gibbins, Director of Sport, and Sally Dunne, Director of Languages, Stourport High School and VIth Form Centre
    11.30 - 12.30 W4 Using an alternative curriculum/delivery to engage the disengaged View
    Synopsys: Using the specialism, within an alternative curriculum, to raise aspirations, self esteem and confidence to re-engage young people and improvestheir achievements and attitudes to learning.
    Audience: DOS HT
    Deliverers: Fiona Derrick, Assistant Head, Joseph Whitaker Sports College, John Savage, Assistant Head Teacher and Director of Specialism,Pickering High School amd Wayne Clark, former British Heavyweight Karatae Champion
    11.30 - 12.30 W5 KS3 Curriculum View
    Synopsys: You will have an opportunity to see practical examples and learn from Sports Colleges who have piloted the new secondary curriculum in Physical Education.
    Audience: SL DOS
    Deliverers: Jo Radford, Director of Specialism , Bridgemary Sports College, Clare Smith, Assistant Head of PE, Wright Robinson Sports College,Andy Hulbert, Director of Specialism, Ivbridge Sports College and Mike Halshaw, Director of Specialism, Wright Robinson Sports College
    11.30 - 12.30 W6 Wider Community - Are you an Outward Facing School? View
    Synopsys: Are partnerships at the core of your community plan? This workshop identifies who your key partners should be and provides guidance on evidencing learning outcomes through the 'Wider Community'.
    Audience: DOS HT
    Deliverers: Denise May, Director of Specialism, Sport, Budehaven Community School
    11.30 - 12.30 W7 Language Leaders View
    Synopsys: Using languages to develop a positive attitude to learning.
    Audience: SL DOS
    Deliverers: Gill Soulsby, Director of Specialism, and Chevan Paterson, Assistant Head of Modern Foreign Languages, Bramcote Hills Sport and Community College
    12.00 - 13.00 W8 Quality PE in partner schools View
    Synopsys: How are you playing an advocacy role in influencing, supporting and developing your partner schools in achieving 2 hours HQ PE?
    Audience: SL DOS
    Deliverers: Gill Parry
    12.00 - 13.00 W10 Using the specialism to create a positive ethos and raised expectations View
    Synopsys: Aspirations focus on developing self-esteem to create a "can do" culture in school.
    Audience: SL DOS
    Deliverers: Brian Griffen, Director of Specialism, Knights Acadmey and Greg Morrison, Director of Specialism, Harris Academy
    12.00 - 13.00 W11 School based strategies for developing outstanding leaders View
    Synopsys: Best practice in linking leadership development with succession planning in secondary schools. In addition to drawing upon work nationally, HPSS Leadership Partner Schools will be sharing their experiences in developing their particular strategies to support leaders.
    Audience: DOS HT
    Deliverers: John O'Callaghan, YST Associate Director and NCSL National Succession Consultant / Leadreships Partner School Headteachers
    12.00 - 13.00 W12 Leading the specialism View
    Synopsys: How does a Subject Leader develop a lead department? Practical advice from a successful Subject Leader on how to develop a lead department in a specialist Sports College.
    Audience: SL
    Deliverers: Ben Morgan, Subject Leader PE, Cheslyn Hay Sport & Community High School
    12.00 - 13.00 W13 A collaborative approach to learning View
    Synopsys: How schools are collaborating to deliver the diploma and other collaborative sharing.
    Audience: DOS HT
    Deliverers: Rebecca Darlington, Director of Specialism, and Zoe Hughes, Assistant Director of Specialism, Sandbach High School and Sixth Form College
    12:30 - 14:00 Lunch
    13.30 - 14.30 W1 Using the Specialism to impact on the Community - 'Wider Community' Self Evaluation View
    Synopsys: The community aspect of Sports Colleges is integral to the SEF. This workshop will guide schools through the fundamentals of a 'Wider Community' framework which supports effective self review.
    Audience: HT/DOS
    Deliverers: Shaun Heathcote
    Development Manager, Youth Sport Trust
    13.30 - 14.30 W2 A Guide to the Sport and Active Leisure Diploma View
    Synopsys: This workshop will outline the key components of the diploma, including employer engagement and IAG. It will also detail the key time lines from gateway application to delivery.
    Audience: SL DOS
    Deliverers: Emma Cannell and Sue Hook.
    Sue Hook from Skills Active.
    13.30 - 14.30 W3 Using the specialism in target subjects View
    Synopsys: A session aimed at supporting new Sports Colleges introduce strategies to identify and utilise the strengths of the specialism to support other target setting subjects. 
    Audience: SL DOS HT
    Deliverers: Matt Pauling, Development Manager, Youth Sport Trust, Bev Whiteside, Development Co-ordinator, Languages and Sport, Youth Sport Trust, Matt Barratt, Leader of PE Faculty and Jane Elam, Assistant Leader of Learning - Communications Faculty, Hipperholme and Lightcliffe Sports College and Peter Gibbins, Director of Sport, and Sally Dunne, Director of Languages, Stourport High School and VIth Form Centre
    13.30 - 14.30 W4 Using an alternative curriculum/delivery to engage the disengaged View
    Synopsys: Using the specialism, within an alternative curriculum, to raise aspirations, self esteem and confidence to re-engage young people and improve their achievements and attitudes to learning.
    Audience: DOS HT
    Deliverers: Fiona Derrick, Assistant Head, Joseph Whitaker Sports College, John Savage, Assistant Head Teacher and Director of Specialism,Pickering High School amd Wayne Clark, former British Heavyweight Karatae Champion
    13.30 - 14.30 W5 KS3 Curriculum View
    Synopsys: You will have an opportunity to see practical examples and learn from Sports Colleges who have piloted the new secondary curriculum in Physical Education.
    Audience: SL DOS
    Deliverers: Jo Radford, Director of Specialism , Bridgemary Sports College, Clare Smith, Assistant Head of PE, Wright Robinson Sports College,Andy Hulbert, Director of Specialism, Ivbridge Sports College and Mike Halshaw, Director of Specialism, Wright Robinson Sports College
    13.30 - 14.30 W20 Competiton - ensuring a progressive pathway from intra to inter View
    Synopsys: Ensuring a progressive pathway for all young people through the connectivity between intra school and inter school competition.
    Audience: SL
    Deliverers: James Bajcer - YST Staff
    13.30 - 14.30 W21 Innovative strategies to improve health including obesity intervention View
    Synopsys: Innovative approaches by Sports Colleges to improving the health and wellbeing of their young people and tackling obesity through targeted interventions.
    Audience: SL DOS
    Deliverers: Kealey Sherwood and Dave Holt and Terry Plumb and Tim Clayton
    13.30 - 14.30 W23 Talented Athlete Personal Development Support - responsibilities of the talented athlete View
    Synopsys: A workshop run by G&t co-ordinator within a Sports College assisted by talented athletes. The workshop aims at the development of excellence using young people who are talented in sport as role models based on the JAE framework.
    Audience: SL DOS
    Deliverers:
    13.30 - 14.30 W24 Student Voice - Student Engagement View
    Synopsys: This workshop explores how a Sports College has developed a culture where young people engagement is at the heart. The workshop will share the journey to developing this culture and give practical examples of what the School has done to ensure Student Engagement has been embedded.
    Audience: SL DOS HT
    Deliverers: Dawn Brooksbank, YST
    Active Learning Zone
    11.30 - 12.30 ALZ1 New Secondary Curriculum View
    Synopsys: Practical examples of new ideas and ways of delivering the new KS 3 curriculum from schools who have piloted their curriculum over last 18 months.
    Audience: SL
    Deliverers: Lesley Wood, Subject Leader, Chesterfield Sports College and Kate Thornton Bousfield, Subject Leader, Stanley Sports College
    11.30 - 12.30 ALZ2 Science and Sport View
    Synopsys: David James and his team will be running a session that uses a variety of interactive apparatus and ideas to explore the links between sport and STEM in an innovative and engaging way.
    Audience: SL DOS
    Deliverers: Dr David James, Senior Sports Engineer, Centre for Sport and Exercise Science, Sheffield Hallam University
    Mini Keynotes
    12:00 - 13:00 MKN1 14-19 Provision View
    Synopsys: No Synopsis Available
    Audience: General
    Deliverers: Dominic Herrington
    12:00 - 13:00 MKN2 A holistic view of the whole child View
    Synopsys: No Synopsis Available
    Audience: General
    Deliverers: Jo Shuter
    13:30 - 14:30 MKN3 Engaging with the community to improve outcomes for young people View
    Synopsys: A focus upon a needs led approach to engage community groups with projects that address inequality & promote learning, improving outcomes for young people & families.
    Audience: General
    Deliverers: Christina Broad
    13:30 - 14:30 MKN4 Grassroots to Government: The Impact of International Development on Education and Sport View
    Synopsys: A focus on the development of an international dimension to whole school planning and how the outcomes of this work impacts on and influences government agenda setting in education and sport.
    Audience: General
    Deliverers: Ms Low Beng Choo
    Learning Lounge
    11.30 - 13.00 LL1 Using Innovative approaches to raise achievement View
    Synopsys: Sports Colleges and Academies that are focussing on raising achievement through engaging new partners and relationships with pupils, staff and parents.
    Audience: DOS HT
    Deliverers: Pat Cottis, Director of Specialism, Harefield Academy and Debbie Ramm-Harple, Director of Specialism and Vice Principle Capital City Academy
    11.30 - 13.00 LL2 Specialism Infrastructure – getting the best out of your specialism View
    Synopsys: Examining the strengths of systems and structures to train and develop staff towards raising standards.
    Audience: SL DOS
    Deliverers: Adam Arnell, Assistant Pirncipal and Training Manager and James Maddern, Subject Leader PE, King Alfreds Sports College
    11.30 - 13.00 LL3 Middle schools to model different approaches to transition View
    Synopsys: Middle schools to model different approaches to transition
    Audience: SL DOS HT
    Deliverers:
    11.30 - 13.00 LL4 Developing partners and sharing cultures View
    Synopsys: An open forum to discuss the rationale and developmental potential of international school links, including current and future opportunities.
    Audience: DOS HT
    Deliverers: Alan Bell, International Development Co-ordinator, Youth Sport Trust aned Andy Hansen, Senior Adviser Education and Sport, British Council
    11.30 - 13.00 LL5 Using the specialism in the new curriculum - connecting learning View
    Synopsys: Schools that embraced the opportunity afforded by the new curriculum to place their learners at the heart of curriculum design.
    Audience: SL DOS HT
    Deliverers: Aylesford & Astley
    11.30 - 13.00 LL6 Science and Sport learning together through action research View
    Synopsys: Feedback from Science Learning Centre / YST project to develop collaborative action research and the impact that it has had on the pilot schools.
    Audience: SL DOS
    Deliverers: John Wardle, Director, Science Learning Centre, Yorkshire and Humber
    11.30 - 13.00 LL7 Building a whole school approach to reading promotion View
    Synopsys: Joint YST / National Literacy Trust pilot for Reading Champions programme using Young Leaders to target literacy.
    Audience: DOS
    Deliverers: Julie Wardle, Headteacher and Niki Powers, PE/Sports specialist Leader, Carlton Central Junior School, Nottingham
    11.30 - 13.00 LL8 Using the Specialism to raise the profile and uptake of languages View
    Synopsys: Practical ideas to impact on your languages department.
    Audience: SL DOS
    Deliverers: Alison Lucas, Director of Learning MFL, Oasis Academy Wintringham
    12.00 - 13.00 LL Foyer Rural Schools View
    Synopsys: Facilitated meeting of other HTs from rural schools over a coffee
    Audience: HT
    Deliverers: David Burley, Regional Development Manager (East Midlands)
    13.30 - 15.00 LL9 Physical 'Education' or 'Recreation' at KS4? View
    Synopsys: Is your core provision for KS4 PE High Quality, embracing the key messages of the New Curriculum? Issues? Solutions? Discuss and find out about a further professional development learning opportunity.
    Audience: SL DOS
    Deliverers: Geoff Oldfield, Programmes Manager, Youth Sport Trust and Les Pearce, Advanced Skills Teacher, Woodgreen High School / Jerome Connor, Head of PE, Ellowes Hall Sports College