Able and Talented

Thanks to all members of the Gifted and Talented Focus Group!

This year the group have focused on understanding what being Gifted in PE and Talented in Sport really means and how we can identify and support these students as early as possible. The group have worked on developing an initial unit of work for Year 7 students to work on in the first term from September - October. The unit is based on the 5 capabilities in PE, not just the physical performance.

The unit has finally been completed and is ready for use in September.

To access the lesson plans and resources click here. To assess these resources you must be a member on the website. To do this simply click on the 'sign in' and complete the on screen application form.

Within the unit all lesson plans and student assessment profiles provide opportunity for self assessment, peer assessment and teacher assessment.

Hockey acheivement in the city 2010

Congratulations! Oreston Primary School on winning the Plymouth City Boys Hockey Final. Making Oreston City Winners!!

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Able, Gifted and Talented 2009 - 2010

Future plans 2010 - Support for our talent

Oct 2010 - Aethetic academy 2010. An event to support our aethetically talented students giving them technical support and exit routes for their students.

The intention of the event is to invite gifted and talented aethetic athletes to attend a days event whereby they receive workshops that will help develop the 5 capabilities when working in a aesthetic sport.

An application for funding is in the process of being written. Watch this space for further details.

Rowing Academy Roadshow 2010

In an attempt to provide the gifted rowers that the partnership is producing and identifying with additional support the partnership is planing a support progamme that will provide those able rowers with; Personal Exercise plans, Access to waterbased rowing, exit routes to club rowing, nutritional information and guidance etc.  This work will be carried out in conjuction with  the ARA and our rowing coach Kev Sellar. For more information watch this space.

Quadkids  7th July 2010

As a partnership we are intending to enter a team of 40 Year 5/6 athletes into the finals due to be held at Exeter Arena on 7th July 2010. Staff are being asked to conduct the events internally as a school and forward the top 10 sets of data to Jo Ricks by no later than 25th June 2010. From this point the top 20 boys and and top 20 girls will be selected to represent the partnership on 7th July. A coach will be provided to transport the students but for each student selected there will be a charge of £10, the expectation is that this charge makes this event more sustainable. However, this cost can be met either by charge the students of the school funding this event as it suport the Gifted and Talent  support for talented athletes. For further information contact your SSCo or Jo Ricks directly.

JAE Gifted and Talented support 2010 - 2011

A resource produced by the YST intended to support gifted and talented young people with a school environment within secondary school.

The new JAE resource training was provided by the LDA on 21st Jan and recieved very positively. As a partnership it has been decided that there will be a 'partnership Approach' to delivery of the JAE for those school that would benfit from working with a small group of other schools.

Those schools that would like to work in partnership include; Plymouth High School for Girls, Devonport High School for Girls, John Kitto, Coombe Dean and Ridgeway. If you would like to get involved in working as a partnership to deliver the JAE programm please contact Jo Ricks directly.

To download a copy of the leaflet advertising the new frameworK click here

Youth Sport Trust Resources 2010

Gifted,Able and Talented support so far 2009 - 2010

In an attempt to continue the great work of last year with the RMSA and use of the 5 capabilities within PE a G,A and T focus group has been formulated to help develop some ideas on how to ensure the more able studetns in Pe get the support that they require. the group comprises of; teachers, SSCos, lecturers from Plymouth UNiversity and Marjon and a KS2 AST. As you can see all interested and relavent parties are welcome if we are to maximise the opportunities for our young people.  

The first meeting took place at Plymouth High School for Girls on 10th November. To access a copy of the minutes click here.

The next meeting is 10th December 2009.

If you are interested in being involved in the focus group do not hesitate to contact me on joricks2001@yahoo.co.uk . It is never too late!!

South West Regional Talent camp October 22nd and 23rd 2009

50 gifted and talented students from 4 partnership school attended a two day talent camp held at Plymstock School. The student were selected to attend one of two camps that were available. 

Students from Plymstock, Ridgeway, Devonport High School for Girls and Devonport High School for Boys were selected based on their ablity within their specialist sports or for their ability within PE lesson.

One of the camps catered for the Gifted students within PE and focused on helping to develop the 5 capabilities within PE and the second camp provided support for those talented sports people at county standard and above. Therefore we had National standard swimmers, divers, sailor, table tennis players etc to mention just a few.All students attended the camp attended for 2 full days.

Talented students completed workshops based on; Target setting, time management, dealling with stress and pressure etc. The gifted students completed workshops based on; leadership qualities, team building, problem solving etc.

All students that attended the  talent camp thoroughly enjoyed the experience and felt better perpared to compete.

More Able Pupils Workshop @ Marjon 7th December

Date: Tuesday 7th December 2009

Venue: University College Plymouth St Mark and St John

Objectives of the day

• Trainees to understand the concept of planning, teaching and learning to take account of more able pupils needs;
• Trainees to plan and deliver a workshop activity to more able pupils and work with more able pupils in a mentoring capacity for the day;
• Pupils to experience a range of work shop activities in an enrichment activity; through this they will be given the opportunity to work in a new environment, in mixed age groups and using a range of adaptations from core skills,; in addition they will be given different types of experiences that extend their thinking skills, enable them to generate their own ideas and opinions, and to make decisions that affect their behaviour and performance.

Over the course of the day students will take part in four workshops aimed at developing their physical, social, cognitive and creative capabilities these will be a) Reaction and speed work

b) Lab testing c) SAQ and d) Digital analysis. You will need practical clothing including trainers, and a packed lunch.

Format of the day

56 Young people from 7 of our partnership secondary schools attended a day of workshops at Marjon.

The focus for the day was 4 of the 5 capabilities and undertake activities that they would not normally do in PE at school. All the participants got the opportunity to going to the sports science lab tested their flexibility, strength/ power and body composition. Other opportunity included using the speed lazers,  speed parachutes, dartfish for analysis, speed, agility and quickness. 

From the workshop all students will recieve a profile so schools can focus any further support in areas that require further work and development.

All workshops were delivered and assessed by 2nd Year trainee students from Plymouth Marjon. The standard of delivery was outstanding and certainly gave all young people an excellent educational experience of there own ability. I would like to take this opportunity on behalf of the partnership to thank all staff and trainees from Marjon that were involved in the event.

All profile will be sent to Jo Ricks in the first instance and forwarded to members of staff for each school.

A summary of the story last year.......

Plymstock SSP 'Regional Multi-Skills Academy (RMSA)'.

South West Regional Multi-SKills Academy 7th July 2009 

What a fantastically successful day for all involved. There were a number of people that were heavily involved in making the day a success those included;

Brooke Graddon, UCP Marjon Lecturers, UCP Marjons RELAYs team, Devonport High School for Girls JSL students, Hele's School A-level PE students, SSCos, the YST, The devonshire and many many more.

30 selected students from the Identification from all schools in the partnership attended the fantastic day at The Devonshire Health and Racquet Club. All students underwent a challenging day of assessment of their performance based on the 5 capabilties. The students completed the following sessions;

Physical - FUNs tests - Agility, Co-ordination, Balance

Creativity - OAA based task

Cognitive - Striking and fielding based task

Social - Leadership based task

Brooke Graddon High diving elite performer opened proceedings with a fantasitc speach and continued with her inspirational involvement throughout the day through assessing, conversing and joining in.

Lunch was provided by Hele's school's GCSE Catering students. They were tasked with the job of providing a health 'grab bag'style meal for 110 year 7 students. What an incredibly difficult task! They met that challenge and produced 110 fantastic meals!

During the day 2 students were identified as being 'Overall Perfromer of the day' those two students were M.Backhouse and J. Shephard. Well done to you both.