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Planning an

effective virtual

sports day

Online Learning Course

Welcome

Welcome to our planning and effective virtual sports day online learning course. My name is Caroline Holder. As Staffordshire county PE advisor for a number of years I saw how diverse the needs of our pupils across the area were. By applying my vast experience in successfully upskilling teachers through CPD I know I can make a real difference. Over the last few years I have been contracted to oversee the effective use of PE and Sports Funding in the local area and I am proud of the positive changes schools have made with our support towards improving the outcomes in PE, sport and health for young people. We would like to thank you for downloading this course and hope that you both enjoy the content and find it useful to your role. If there is anything you need help or further support with then please don’t hesitate to get in touch.

Caroline Holder

www.acceleratelearningservices.co.uk https://www.facebook.com/PEadvice Having completed my headship qualification myself, I understand the challenges and requirements of whole school development. I love it when I manage to help a school support their school objectives weaved against the whole school development plan. This course has been written alongside Zoe Harp. She is our team’s sport and competition specialist. Zoe has worked in the sports development and education sector for 20 years and is a School Games Organiser for the Staffordshire Moorlands and Sports Co-Ordinator for Moorside High School. She has previously worked for the FA and the County Sports Partnership before moving into education and has been a PE teache and PE lead for a primary school. Zoe works with schools around the School Games programme, sports leaders, active schools, Change 4 Life, competition, linking with clubs and advising on Sports Premium funding. https://twitter.com/AccelerateLS https://www.instagram.com/pe_advice/?hl=en

Contents

**1. Why run a virtual sports day?

2. What are the best ways to organise this?
3. What school games events are already running** **virtually?
4. What events shall I include?
5. Linking the event to pre learning activities.
6. Raising the profile of the event.
7. Other ideas for promoting involvement and** **inclusivity.
8. Important considerations
9. Useful websites and links.**

Why run a virtual sports day? The current lockdown situation due to covide-19 is meaning we are all trying to think of new and innovative ways of delivering some of the things we used to take for granted. Many of the PE leaders and schools we support have expressed and interest in trying to still run their school sports days but in a virtual context. We have pulled together some thought, ideas and considerations to try and help you in doing so. The first important question to think about is – why do you want to run a virtual sports day? It’s going to take time and effort to set up so you want to make sure you think its going to be worth it for you , your school, your pupils and the parents. Hopefully you want to do it because you really value the opportunities that pupils gain from sports day and you want to be able to replicate that – even if it is in a slightly different format to usual. Most children and indeed families look forward to schools sport day. There is a lot to be gained such as:

• It is a chance to come together and celebrate sport, fitness and health and all that has been learnt and achieved in PE throughout the year.
• It can build confidence and self-esteem.
• It can give pupils a sense of team work and shared goals.
• It can teach about winning, losing and trying your best.
• It is a chance for children who are more physically confident and competent to shine in their own right.

Task

What other reasons can

you think of for running

a virtual sports day and

the benefits your school,

pupils and parents will

gain?

What School Games activities are already running virtually?

The School Games and the Youth Sport Trust have lots of resources that can

be used for a virtual sports day.

School Games Play Formats – YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Au1r2EnpPvs&list=PLX9GnyQdx

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https://www.youthsporttrust.org/pe-home-learning

Youth Sport Trust – PE Home Learning

School Games Active Championships

Free active challenges being set via videos within a designated School Games

version of the TopYa! Active app.

All they need to do is download the app, register as a player and type in the

Invite Code 23880.

Your local School Games Organiser will also be sending out ideas and

resources.

What events or activities could I include?

There are many different events or activities that you could include in a virtual

sports day…….

Athletic Activities

• Running, Jumping and Throwing challenges e.g. furthest jump, fastest timed

shuttle runs, beanbag pick up, timed egg and spoon, timed hopping, furthest

throw, accurate throws, highest jump etc

Sport Specific Challenges

• Linked to sports they may have played during the year at school e.g. How many

penalties can they score in a goal with a football? How many bounces can they

do with a tennis ball on a racket? How many chest or bounce passes can they do

against a wall in 30 seconds?

Skill challenges

• How long can they balance on one leg for? How many times can then jump

back and forth over a line for in 30 seconds? How many times can they run

around a 5m squared area in 30 seconds?

Mental Challenges

• How many different ways can you get a ball into a bucket?
• Without throwing, how far away can you get a rolled up pair of socks?

Raising the profile of the event Virtual passing of a torch or baton or passing a Mexican wave across the school community

This idea is a bit like those that have already been done by many schools

and teachers for example passing toilet rolls from one clip to another or

even throwing buckets of water over each other. It’s a bit of fun and gets

everyone involved before the event – talking about it and thinking about it.

Why not have some kind of virtual torch, relay baton or even just a Mexican

wave that you pass around the community via video clips put together.

Opening ceremony dance or gymnastics routine.

See if any children who love dance or gymnastics want to film little clips of

themselves doing movements which can be put together into a routine to

music that can be put on the school website or played on the day.

Shared dance routine or fun challenge

Maybe think of an event that you could do on the day that everyone joins in

with virtually at the same time for example a dance routine that’s been pre-

learnt or a challenge such as ‘everyone hula hooping or skipping’ for as

long as they can. This can build up in the lead up to your event as

everyone practices ready for the joint challenge. You could even try and set

up a zoom meeting so people can see each other when you do it? or

maybe even try set a world record if you’re feeling very adventurous?

Other ideas for promoting involvement and inclusivity My personal best challenges Little challenges set for pupils to get a ‘personal best’ score for will not only support your school in gaining the school games mark but will also add purpose, motivation and enjoyment for your children. Here are a few activities for you to try out. Try and think of other ideas that are suitable for your school and playground and would engage your pupils. We have a list of downloadable personal best challenges on our website: https://www.acceleratelearningservices.co.uk/product/my-personal-best- challenge-cards/ Leadership Challenges Ask pupils to come up with their own challenges using equipment they have at home and then teaching a parent or sibling how to play. Creative Challenges It is great to try and get the children to be creative in their play with difference pieces of equipment. Here is a visual prompt sheet of ‘9 things to do with a beanbag’ – You can watch a video of these skills here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDCi7218umk Why not challenge the children to see how many of the 9 they can master? Then once they can do them all challenge them to see what other skills they can think of doing with a beanbag or choose another piece of equipment for them to experiment with. We have created a YouTube channel of videos for lots of pieces of equipment including: a hula hoop, a dance ribbon, a dance scarf, a quoit, a football and a cricket bat and ball These videos and prompt sheets have worked really well to go out with the equipment boxes at lunch and breaktimes. If you want the full set of ideas cards for other pieces of equipment you can get them here: https://www.acceleratelearningservices.co.uk/product/9- things-to-do-skills-and-tricks-activity-cards/

Useful Websites and links Accelerate learning Services for further ideas, resources and courses https://www.acceleratelearningservices.co.uk The Association for Physical Education for health and safety advice https://www.afpe.org.uk School Games Website: https://www.yourschoolgames.com 60 second challenge ideas https://www.youthsporttrust.org/60-second-physical-activity-challenges Accelerate Learning Services YouTube channel: Lots of quick physical activity ideas and challenges: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEBOSQ3JE2aN9mROKGL-Lww?view_as=subscriber Example schools who’ve done/ started this: https://www.mapplewellsprimary.co.uk/physical-education-at-home-and-in-school/ https://qz.com/1814544/hong-kong-school-hosts-virtual-sports-day-in-wake-of-coronavirus/

https://www.windsorhillps.co.uk/general-resources-and-activity-suggestions-to-keep/

Thank you and good luck Caroline Holder

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F o r v i d e o s o f t h e s e c h a l l e n g e s c h e c k o u t o u r Y o u T u b e c h a n n e l : My Personal Best Challenges – Longest time What is the longest time you can balance on one leg for?

F o r v i d e o s o f t h e s e c h a l l e n g e s c h e c k o u t o u r y o u t u b e c h a n n e l : S k i l l s a n d t r i c k s – A c c e l e r a t e L e a r n i n g S e r v i c e s My Personal Best Challenges – Sport Specific - Football How many goals can you score from 10 penalties?

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