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Issue 4: Term 1 2018-19

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FROM THE CHAIR Welcome to Issue 4, the first newsletter of school year 2018/19. Thank you to all the Member Schools that went along to U15 FOBISIA Games over the last few weeks. As SCA continue to improve The Friendly Games experience, your feedback is as vital as ever. Phil has collated the feedback received so far, this is available to view in the ‘Event Feedback’ section of this issue.

HoPE Conference 21-23 September 2018 It was great to see so many delegates at the recent FOBISIA HoPE AGM and Conference in Bangkok, it was our busiest for a few years. I think you’ll agree Mike and everyone at Harrow did a wonderful job in welcoming us to Thailand and making sure the three-day event ran smoothly.

Heads of PE (HoPE) Conference September 2019 If you are interested in hosting, please contact Claire Wilson at FOBISIA HQ: claire.wilson@fobisia.org

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We are pleased to have launched FOBISIA High Quality Collaboration, and as it takes it’s first few tentative steps towards helping Member Schools to learn from each other and share good practice. I’d like to thank the Regional Group Leaders for their enthusiasm and efforts so far. It has been great to hear of schools initiating discussions on the How, What and also the Why schools can help each other out to benefit their children in PE and Sport. Phil has received updates about some great work from a number of groups and this is a focus of his ‘Secondary Sport’ section of the newsletter.

The CPD on offer over the two days at the HoPE was incredibly varied, I found a lot of value in Ronnie Heath’s sessions and his ideas about moving away from structured sports and to focusing on movement literacy in lessons. Neil Rollings built on this with his thoughts of not watering down sports for schools and instead building a foundation of movement within the curriculum to complement development. Are we moving away from say, Y7 ‘Basketball’ lessons and towards Year 7 ‘Locomotor’ skills lessons? This may raise a few eyebrows, but alongside an Extra Curricular programme that does offer sport; is this an approach with more appropriate outcomes for the majority of our students? Does the future of PE in schools lie in helping children develop an extensive movement vocabulary to allow them to access multi-sports programmes with a high degree of competency...

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<< read more update >> Lewis Keens Director of Sport, The British School Manila (BSM) FOBISIA Sport Executive Chair

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FOBISIA Sport & PE Vision & Aims VISION

FOBISIA Sport & PE 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 & PE 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 strength within their curriculum and programmes • Offer CPD opportunities and guidance to support schools in improving provision and quality of programmes • Develop collaboration between schools and official partners, 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

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Sport & PE Updates

S P O R T C P D W I T H H A R R I E T H O M S O N PRIMARY SPORT WITH ANDREW TATAM Harrie Thomson Director of Sport, BSKL Sport CPD, FOBISIA Sport Executive << read more bio >> HoPE Conference 2018 Thank you to those who have completed feedback for FOBISIA HoPE Conference 2018. A huge thank you to Harrow for hosting this year... << read more update >>

HANDBOOKS WITH SUSANNE CHAMBERS-HATHERLY Susanne Chambers-Hatherly Head of PE & Sport, DBIS Sport Handbooks, FOBISIA Sport Executive << read more bio >> Below are the handbook changes that were voted and agreed upon at the HoPE meeting.

U15 Games Relays for Athletics and Swimming: rationale to... << read more update >>

Andrew Tatam Leader of Learning for Primary PE, BPS Primary Sport, FOBISIA Sport Executive << read more bio >> Celebrating Shared Practice Through Our New FOBISIA High Quality Collaboration Regional Groups As a first step into our FOBISIA High Quality Collaboration (FHQC), Shrewsbury hosted a... << read more update >>

SECONDARY SPORT WITH PHILIP HUSBAND Philip Husband Director of Sport & HoPE, BISHM Secondary Sport, FOBISIA Sport Executive << read more bio >> FHQC - Term 1 Developments First of all, a huge thank you to the Regional Group Leaders of this initiative, who were fantastic at the AGM in September to bring Member Schools together... << read more update >>

I N V I TAT I O N A L S W I T H K W O K C H O W SPORT COORDINATION WITH FOBISIA HQ Kwok Chow Director of Sport, TES Invitationals, FOBISIA Sport Executive << read more bio >> Invitationals The entries for FOBISIA Swimming hosted by Bangkok Prep (BPREP), FOBISIA Tennis hosted by The British School New Delhi (TBSND)... << read more update >>

FOBISIA’s newly recruited Claire Wilson is now settled in to her role as Events Executive and you should have heard from her already on all things ‘sporting events’.

Please don’t hesitate to get in touch with Claire at claire.wilson@fobisia.org, should you have any questions or queries on events.

For further details on how you can contribute to the FOBISIA Sports Newsletter, please email Lewis Keens: lkeens@britishschoolmanila.org.