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QCA PE and School Sport Investigation
The Qualifications and Curriculm Authority (QCA) is currently working with schools (primary, secondary and special) and partnerships across England to explore and develop ways of improving the quality of PE and school sport. The key aim is to investigate the difference that high quality PE and school sport make to young people of Wirral and the impact that this has on their schools. Some of the schools are also Specialist Sports Colleges or within a School Sport Coordinator partnership.
How is it being delivered in Wirral?
The schools and partnerships involved in the investigation are aiming to ensure that all their pupils spend a minmum of two hours each week on high quality PE and school sport. To achieve this, they are investing time and resources and are using a range of approaches and strategies. These include:
- re-designing the PE curriculm to reflect better how young people learn and improve their progress and attainment;
- developing break and lunch times to provide purposeful skill and health enhancing activities that improve behaviour, attitudes to learning and healthy living;
- exploring how time before and after school can be used to support young people's learning and improve their self-esteem and attendance patterns; and
- finding more effective ways to support and develop teachers, other adults and junior leaders to ensure what they provide is high quality PE and school sport.
All of the schools involved in the investigation are seeing benefits. They have found that developing PE and school sport has made a difference to a number of areas of school improvement including attendance, behaviour, attitudes to learning and attainment. Many have also found that pupils' self esteem and confidence have grown and that they are now more committed to a healthy, active lifestyle.
For more information on the QCA investigation visit the QCA's website www.qca.org.uk/pess
or contact Bob Saunders (General Inspector for PE and Outdoor Education)
Tel: (0151) 346 6557, email: bobsaunders@wirral.gov.uk