The Sports Newsletter

SPORTS

N E W S L E T T E R

Issue 2: Term 2 2017-18

Welcome to Issue 2 of our FOBISIA Sports Newsletter. It was great to see so many of our 58 Member Schools sending teams to the U13 and U15 Games hosted by Sports Camps Australia (SCA) at Thanyapura, Phuket. We welcomed a handful of new Member Schools for the first time too. I was present for the Yellow Games for both age groups and thoroughly enjoyed the wonderful ‘Friendly Games’ atmosphere.

Competition was as fierce as ever and teams were well prepared and committed to performing to the very best of their ability.

Upon returning to school just a few days ago I was reminded that with a very early Easter break this year, we are fast approaching the end of the school calendar for our senior students and, as such, the focus turns to celebrating their sporting successes.

I am about to write a speech for our award evenings for one young lady that has been incredibly committed to school sport throughout her time at BSM and has competed in at least one FOBISIA sporting event for the last 11 years! Over the years her memory of medals and trophies won has blurred from one event to another, but what she does recall is the plethora of friends she had made through a shared respect of competition and performance. She also reflects well on how her success was achieved, she knows it wasn’t always ability but hard work, perseverance and a commitment to improve and develop played a huge role. What she doesn’t know yet is the most famous Filipino in the world is going to present her award! I’ll have to think of a plan to top Manny Pacquiao as our guest speaker for next year...I might just hand in my notice!

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Lewis Keens MORE INFO Director of Sport, BSM Chair, FOBISIA HoPE Executive Harrie Thomson Director of Sport, BSKL Sports CPD, FOBISIA HoPE Executive MORE INFO Michael Preston Director of Sport, HISB Sport Handbooks, FOBISIA HoPE Executive MORE INFO Kwok Chow Director of Sport, TES Invitationals, FOBISIA HoPE Executive MORE INFO

Heads of PE (HoPE) Conference Harrow International School Bangkok 20-22 September 2018

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Andrew Tatam Leader of Leading for Primary PE, BPS Primary Sport, FOBISIA HoPE Executive MORE INFO Philip Husband Director of Sport & HoPE, BISHM Secondary Sport, FOBISIA HoPE Executive MORE INFO For further details on how to contribute to this publication, please email me at lkeens@britishschoolmanila.org, or complete the Google form here.

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FOBISIA Sport Vision & Aims Vision:

FOBISIA Sport promotes collaborative practice between Member Schools to provide and enhance opportunities for children to participate, develop and perform in sport and activities with an emphasis on improving leadership skills, building resilience, creating friendships and having fun.

Aims:

To work towards our vision FOBISIA Sport will: • Identify and champion areas of best practice across Member Schools • Regularly encourage schools to reflect on their practice and identify areas to improve and areas of strengths within their curriculum and programmes • Identify ways Member Schools can support each other to improve best practice • Offer CPD opportunities and guidance to support schools in improving provision and quality of programmes • Develop collaboration between schools, fostering a multicultural, educational professional learning environment • Share and carry out relevant research to allow schools to be on the cutting edge of educational and coaching initiatives • Facilitate fun and friendly sport tournaments and competitions to allow development and performance of students and encourage an understanding of global citizenship • Develop links between schools and official partners

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HoPE News & Updates Sport CPD with Harrie Thomson

CPD Requests: Please complete the following form to assist us to arrange courses in the future and state any CPD you may e seeking during the upcoming HoPE Conference 2018 in Bangkok.

FOBISIA PE and Sport CPD Form Notable PE Conferences in Asia: APPEC Conference November 2018 Singapore ICE Conference June 2018 Please click on ‘more info’ below for the full article...

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Sport Handbooks with Michael Preston

The FOBISIA Sports Handbook (Dec 2017), FOBISIA Primary Friendly Games Handbook (Mar 2018) and FOBISIA Secondary Friendly Games Handbook (Dec 2017) are now all available on FOBISIA’s website here!

Primary Sport with Andrew Tatam

With our Primary FOBISIA Games just around the corner I would just like to draw your attention to the latest FOBISIA Primary Friendly Games Handbook now available here, especially the Tee ball pages! Obviously, their implementation will be down to the umpiring at the event but I hope that these are our clearest set yet. Any feedback after the Games on anything that still needs tweaking will be much appreciated. Regards and the very best of luck to all participating Primary teams for a fun-filled event!

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Secondary Sport with Philip Husband

Thank you to HoDs and DoS for completing the survey regarding participation in the FOBISIA U15 Games next year and whether you would like to participate with or without Swimming or whether you did not mind. Your patience while we collate the data and restructuring of the groupings is much appreciated. We have been able to match Member Schools according to their needs for the next Friendly Games into three divisions with Swimming, and two divisions without Swimming.

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Invitationals with Kwok Chow

Sport Coordination with FOBISIA HQ

Please click here for Tennis/Swimming/Gymnastics/Golf FOBISIA HQ is currently recruiting to replace results. Watch this space for Squash results! Please click outgoing FOBISIA Events Coordinator, Katrina here for Climbing results.

George. For HQ enquiries in the mean time, please contact FOBISIA Executive Officer, Tania Donoghue We are looking for hosts for next year’s Gymnastics, at tania.donoghue@fobisia.org.

Tennis, Squash and Climbing Invitationals. Please contact me at kwok.chow@tes.tp.edu.tw if you are interested.

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Teaching Tactics IMPLEMENTING A NEW PE VISION REFLECTION: UNINTENDED

by Paul Summers, Head of Faculty, Secondary PE, BPS CONSEQUENCES At Bangkok Patana School our Key Stage Three students are currently experiencing a change in their approach to PE lessons. Up until this year the school used National Curriculum (NC) levels, and assessment was purely performance-based and therefore benefitted those in the competitive sports programme.

by Paul Rotheram, Director of Sports & Activities, SHB How many of us work in schools where we are comfortable valuing high performance, and happy to invest in facilities, specialist coaches and extensive (and expensive) competition programmes? Do schools believe that the success on the playing fields is an unspoken part of the marketing departments remit to attract new students?

What are our driving principles for sport within our Primary schools? How often does the FOBISIA Primary Games drive our programmes? How much time do we spend designing sports programmes and asking our specialist coaches to work with those who are not in the FOBISIA Games squads?

Students arrived in Year 7 and were placed into ability sets based on their performances in their first few lessons of football and touch rugby. I felt that the stigma attached to Set 4 students could only have a negative outcome and research has shown that apart from bullying itself PE has the biggest effect on a child’s self-esteem in school. I surveyed the experienced PE faculty to find their expert opinion on streaming, assessment and asked if they were happy to take PE in a new direction.

The majority of the faculty shared the view that setting in Y7 was not working.

The next step was the difficult task of convincing the school leadership team that levelling should be taken out of PE and classes in Year 7 should be taught in mixed sex/mixed ability.

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How each school approaches The FOBISIA Games varies. However, every school does place a high level of importance in achieving success at the Primary FOBISIA Games. This does, invariably, drive our programmes. The opportunity that the Games provides for those involved is absolutely amazing and, as Physical Education teachers, we all would have loved the opportunity to be part of them when we were 10 or 11 years old.

I also know that many of our Physical Education teachers would probably have been part of the FOBISIA Games squad at U11, U13 and U15 and provided with the best possible coaching, playing opportunities and resources that the school could provide, which is fantastic for those involved in The Games.

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MORE INFO If you’d like to contribute an article to future issues of the FOBISIA Sports Newsletter, please click here and fill out the Google form, it’d be great to hear from some of our new Member Schools.