Title: SSCo – Making effective links between primary/ special and secondary schools

Aims: To improve SSCos ability to develop effective links between primary/ special and secondary schools.

Objectives:

· To develop SSCos understanding of primary and special education

· To enable SSCos to negotiate with Headteachers· 

. To enable SSCos to develop action plans to support their work in making effective links

Outcomes: By the end of this course delegates should be able to:

· Review a range of issues that impact upon the delivery of PE & OSHL in primary/special schools

· Explain the benefits of PE & school sport

· Identify a range of strategies to develop effective links

Title: SSCo – Using adults other than teachers to support physical education and school sport

Aims: To improve SSCos ability to coordinate the management and development of AOTTs to support PESS in their family/ partnership

Objectives:

· To develop an understanding of how to manage and develop AOTTs within the PESS programme

· To introduce a range of resources that support working with AOTTs

Outcomes: By the end of this course delegates should be able to:

· Identify strategies for managing and developing high quality PESS with and through AOTTs

· Review current work with AOTTs and action plan to extend and improve the work

Title: SSCo – Developing and implementing out of school hours learning programmes in physical education and sport

Aims: · To improve SSCos ability to develop effective OSHL programmes

Objectives:

· To raise awareness of what high quality OSHL looks like

· To introduce the OSHL guides as support resources to support the development of OSHL programmes

Outcomes: By the end of this course delegates should be able to:

· Identify the key factors that contribute to providing high quality OSHL programmes

· Review current OSHL programmes and action plan to extend and enhance their OSHL programmes

Title: Making and maintaining effective school-club links

Aim: To improve SSCos ability to develop and maintain effective links between schools in their family and local sports clubs

Objectives:

· To recognise what is meant by an effective, high quality school-club link (in terms of outcomes for young people)

· To develop an understanding of the SSCos role in creating, developing and maintaining effective school club links· 

To provide details of support resources

Outcomes: By the end of this course delegates should be able to:

· Review the factors that contribute to an effective, high quality school-club link· Identify practical ways of creating, developing and maintaining effective school-club links

· Review their role and action plan to improve school-club links within the family/partnership

Title: PE and sport at the heart of the school

Aim: To improve SSCos ability to develop and embed their work around OSHL, school sport and community links within the whole school, in terms of profile, ownership and impact.

Objectives:

· To enable SSCos to explore creating greater ownership of their work within the PE department

· Support the SSCos to involve a greater number of people in the development, delivery and evaluation of OSHL, school sport and community links

· To help SSCos raise the profile of their work around OSHL, school sport and community links within their own school

· Enable the SSCos to consider how to demonstrate the impact of their work in OSHL, school sport and community links upon whole school development and improvement

Outcomes: By the end of this course delegates should be able to:

· Identify ways that their work (in OSHL, school sport and community links) relates to the work of the PE department and contributes to the ongoing development of physical education and sport in their own school

· Identify ways of increasing other school staff (teachers and AOTTs) and other adults (parent, governors) awareness of, and involvement in, their SSCo work

· Describe practical ways of raising the profile of their work

· Recognise how they can demonstrate the impact of their work on whole school development and improvement

Title: Including all young people in PE and sport

Aim: To enable the SSCo to identify current non-participants and identify strategies for including these young people in PE and sport within their family of schools.

Objectives:

· To develop and understanding of high quality inclusive PE and school sport

· To review practice and develop future plans

Outcomes: By the end of this course delegates should be able to:

· Identify current non-participants and recognise the barriers to their participation

· Use different models of inclusion to develop ideas to support inclusive work

· Identify practical solutions for developing and improving inclusive work and build them into an action plan

Title: SSCo – Negotiating & influencing skills

Aims: To improve SSCos ability to use effective negotiating & influencing skills to support their work

Objectives:

· To enable SSCos to experience different negotiating situations

· To help SSCos plan to negotiate effectively

· To provide an opportunity to practice negotiating

Outcomes: By the end of this course delegates should be able to:

· Review different negotiating situations

. Identify key factors relating to planning to negotiate and influence

· Apply a range of negotiating and influencing skills in the context of their day to day work

Title: SSCo – Practical ways to monitor and evaluate the family’s work

Aim: To help SSCos recognise the importance of monitoring & evaluating the work of their family/partnership

Objectives:

· To raise SSCos awareness of how M&E contributes to the national agenda by demonstrating the impact of the school sport partnerships’ work

· To enable SSCos to understand the intended outcomes of the school sport partnerships’ work, and the national requirements for reporting and relate these to their family plans

· To help SSCos to monitor and evaluate their family’s work and contribute to the overall monitoring and evaluation of their partnership and the PESSCL strategy

· To support SSCos to build their M&E process into the schools’ self-review procedures and practice

Outcomes: By the end of this course delegates should be able to:

· Identify  a range of practical and effective ways for monitoring and evaluating the work of their family of schools

· Recognise the potential roles of the PDM, SSCo, PLT and others (teachers and AOTTs) in contributing to the M&E process

· Identify how the family’s monitoring and evaluating process can be built into the schools’ standard self-review process

Title: SSCo – Maintaining effective links between schools and with community sport

Aims: To improve SSCos ability to develop, extend and maintain effective links to support high quality PE & School Sport (PESS)

Objectives:

· To enable SSCos to recognise how effective links between schools and with community sport work

· To help SSCos develop an understanding of their role in developing and maintaining effective links through other people

· To provide ideas about how effective links contribute to raising standards in and through PESS

Outcomes: By the end of this course delegates should be able to:

· Review key factors that contribute to effective links between schools and with community sport

· Solve challenges associated with developing effective links between schools and with community sport

· Identify  the role of other people in supporting effective links between schools and with community sport

· Describe how effective links between schools and with community sport contribute to raising standards

Title: SSCo – Are you being an effective SSCo?

Aims: To enable SSCos to review their own practice in the light of their experience, the practice of other SSCos and national expectations, so that they can identify ways of becoming more effective within their own school and across their family of primary and special schools.

Objectives:

· To support existing SSCos to explore their role and effectiveness against national expectations as well as against local needs.

· To challenge SSCos to define their role against national expectations 

 · To enable  SSCos to share practice with their peers.

· To help SSCos focus on the way in which they work, with particular reference to how they work with the PDM, PLTs and other staff within the partnership.

· To enable SSCos to develop ways of working that create more sustainable development e.g. co-ordinate rather than deliver; maximise the skills & experience of others; embed the work in wider developments.

Outcomes: By the end of this course delegates should be able to:

· Interpret their role in terms of national expectations as well as local needs

· Identify aspects of work that need to be developed to meet national expectations· Explain good practice in the development and sustainability of high quality PESS

· Review their experience and work to date, highlighting personal strengths and areas for improvement