Partnerships and Collaborations
Tuesday 4 December 2007
East Midlands Conference Centre, Nottingham
The Youth Sport Trust is delighted to announce the 2nd national conference for those delivering PE and Sport opportunities to young disabled people and Special Educational Needs pupils.
To ensure that all young disabled people and special educational needs pupils receive five hours high quality PE and sport opportunities no one agency can be responsible. The conference theme for this year is therefore based around developing partnerships and collaborations to ensure that this ambition can be realised. In particular the conference considers the contribution that special schools can make as leaders, innovators, and facilitators within the PE and Sport movement. The conference also provides an opportunity for mainstream schools with SEN pupils young disabled people and those responsible for delivering and facilitating community opportunities to further develop and extend their knowledge and share expertise.
Download conference flyer
Some of the key areas and topics to be covered in delivering a two hours high quality PE curriculum are:
New KS3/4 PE curriculum: what does this look like for a special school and its links to foundation skills?
- Engaging pupils with behaviour issues in learning through PE and sport
- Creating a high quality aquatics environment as a cross curricular learning environment
- Engaging autistic pupils in high quality PE and sport
- Using leadership, coaching and officiating to develop pupils abilities and become active citizens
Providing and sustaining the three hour sport offer both through school and community sport:
- Using physical activity to engage and develop foundation skills in young disabled people aged three-five
- Using leadership as a learning strand to develop active citizens and talented leaders and officials
- Creating and sustaining a performance pathway for SEN pupils and young disabled people
The contribution of multi-sport clubs to skill development and links to extended services
Click here for outline of the conference programme.
Click here for breakout session 1
Click here for breakout session 2
Conference costings
The cost of the conference is £95.00 per person. Cheques should be made payable to Youth Sport Trust
Win a Dream Visit from Kelly Holmes
To celebrate the high quality PE and sport opportunities in Special Schools, a national development award for Special Schools to win a visit via helicopter from the National School Sport Champion Dame Kelly Holmes, has been launched.
Special Schools are invited to submit either a 5 minute DVD or video on any aspect(s) of high quality PE and sport in their school. The winner of the prize will be announced at the Special Schools Conference.
The runners up will receive £500 of sports equipment.
Closing date for the competition is 23rd November 2007. We anticipate that schools should be in attendance on 4th December 2007 to be notified of their prize.
Please send all competition entries to:
Frances Brown
Youth Sport Trust
Sir John Beckwith Centre for Sport
Loughborough University
Loughborough
Leicestershire
LE11 3TU
T: 01509 226 600
E: frances.brown@youthsporttrust.org
Accommodation
All accommodation will need to be booked individually. Please contact 01245 328 777 for details of nearby hotels.
Directions to the Venue
Click here for directions to the East Midlands Conference Centre
Please note: The following pages and links relate to the Special Schools PE and Sport Conference 2007 and were correct at the time of press.
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