Sports Update

Mental wellbeing in children and young people – what about the boys?

Mrs Allen has been involved in this project and achieved great success with our year 7 and 8 boys led by mentors from year 12 level 3 sports leaders.

The report sets out six top tips for maximising sports potential to improve boys’ mental health and wellbeing:

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Working together to understand the issues, including identifying particular male specific barriers Using clear, positive language and taking an enthusiastic approach Ensuring the programme has clear objectives for those involved Promoting physical wellbeing as having equal status to mental wellbeing Using the right setting – usually somewhere familiar like the school sports hall or playing fields Using peer-to-peer support and role models. This approach has been shown to be successful when working with boys and can also reduce the perceived threat to boys’ sense of self when addressing mental health issues

SEN & Leadership Programme – Blended Netball from England Netball

Miss Tabbenor will be involved in the SEN & Leadership programme ‘blended netball’ as part of our sports leadership programme. Blended netball is a peer to peer programme designed for mainstream girls to deliver netball to girls with special educational needs within their schools.

Designed to develop life/interpersonal skills such as leadership, communication and empathy, in line with other leadership programmes such as Duke of Edinburgh, it will provide netball for students who may not otherwise be involved in the sport. Sessions are completely student led meaning there's a real hands-off approach.

Badminton England

Badminton England have released the guidance for Phase 2 of their Return to Play guidelines, which now includes indoor badminton – see link below: https://www.badmintonengland.co.uk/return-to-play/

A formal announcement from the government is awaited on exactly when and how indoor sports facilities can reopen, although it is hoped the sector will be open from 4 July. With this in mind Badminton England want to give the badminton community as much time as possible, and all the resources required to prepare for a return. Badminton England will continue to monitor and update our documents according to Government guidance.

CPD Continues during Covid-19

Mrs Allen took part in a CPD webinar from the Association for Physical Education (afPE) where Jason Robinson (English former dual-code international rugby league and rugby union footballer) delivered a great message in connection with ‘be the best you can be – PE making a difference’

Mrs Allen also completed Sports Leaders UK refresher training and Highfields School is approved to deliver courses from 2020-21 and beyond with new Covid guidelines.

‘I Can I Am’ Completion

Congratulations to Sophie (Y9), who is the first girl to finish all the ‘I Can, I AM’ tasks as part of the new resilience programme produced during Covid-19.

A fantastic achievement, well done!

Sports programmes for all students

If you have not already started the ‘I Can, I Am’ resilience programme booklets want to do so, please follow the link below.

The two new programmes below are open to all Highfields students, not just students already completing Sports

Leadership courses. Mrs Allen has saved all the tasks to Word to make it easier to access - tasks 9/10 are on SMHW.

Sports Leaders UK have released badges and certificates for Mrs Allen to present to students upon completion of all 10 tasks.

‘I Can, I Am’ Resilience programme

http://www.highfields.derbyshire.sch.uk/pdfs/NewsPDFs/introduction-to-i-can-i-am-resilienceprogramme.pdf

Personal Skills programme

http://www.highfields.derbyshire.sch.uk/pdfs/NewsPDFs/PSPInfoSheet.pdf

England Netball Covid-19 guidelines

England netball have released info regarding training for netball during Covid-19. For students in U.16-U.18 teams please read the information below when co-ordinating and planning pre-season training. https://www.englandnetball.co.uk/about/covid-19-support/latest-response-to-government-guidance/

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Sports activity challenges: Week 8 - Boccia

The Rural Derbyshire School Sport Partnership have been working with Active Derbyshire on virtual challenges. As well as being great fun to complete, there are prizes to be won for individuals and schools who participate.

This week the sports activity challenge is Boccia (see link for full details): http://www.highfields.derbyshire.sch.uk/pdfs/NewsPDFs/DerbyshireSchoolGamesBoccia.pdf

The resource has simple descriptions and images of all the challenges, a brief history of the sport, some research tasks as well as literacy and numeracy; along with links to Governing Body of sport websites for additional information. There are 10 challenges to complete and a new challenge will be issued weekly focusing on a different sport.

Previous sports challenges can be accessed through the links below:

Week 7 – Gymnastics http://www.highfields.derbyshire.sch.uk/pdfs/NewsPDFs/DerbyshireSchoolGamesGymnastics.pdf Week 6 – Cricket: http://www.highfields.derbyshire.sch.uk/pdfs/NewsPDFs/DerbyshireSchoolGamesCricket.pdf Week 5 - Athletics: http://www.highfields.derbyshire.sch.uk/pdfs/NewsPDFs/DerbyshireSchoolGamesAthletics.pdf Week 4 – Orienteering http://www.highfields.derbyshire.sch.uk/pdfs/NewsPDFs/DerbyshireSchoolGamesOrienteering.pdf Week 3 – Netball http://www.highfields.derbyshire.sch.uk/pdfs/NewsPDFs/DerbyshireSchoolGamesNetball.pdf Week 2 – Football http://www.highfields.derbyshire.sch.uk/pdfs/NewsPDFs/DerbyshireSchoolGamesFootball.pdf Week 1 – Golf http://www.highfields.derbyshire.sch.uk/pdfs/NewsPDFs/DerbyshireSchoolGames.pdf