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Whole school approach toteaching life skills through PE

YST RESOURCES AND LEARNING – MY PERSONAL BEST PRIMARY

My Personal Best Primary

Outcomes for children aged 4-11 years:

• develop and apply life skills that will support them to flourish in PE, school and life

• improve health, wellbeing and personal skills

• better understand and work with others (social skills)

• create opportunities, overcome challenges and make choices (thinking skills)

• increase potential achievement and readiness for life

My Personal Best is a whole school approach to teaching and learning in PE, where life skills and values such as co-operation, responsibility and resilience are taught explicitly through PE. It explores these life skills practically, helping children to recognise and transfer them to other lessons, to life in school and to their wider environment at home.

WHY?

HOW?

WHAT?

Enables pupils to flourish in PE, school and life.

Supports explicit life skills approach to teaching and learning in PE.

Improves pupils; health

and wellbeing, achievement and readiness for life.

Provides teaching and learning ideas

for teachers.

Provides life skills examples

for pupils.

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One-day trainingThe one-day training consists of two parts:

• Part one is for the Headteacher and PE Leader from each school. It will enable you to:

• explain the importance of developing pupils’ life skills

• recognise what ‘life-skilled’ looks like in your pupils

• identify the potential to develop life skills through PE

• describe how My Personal Best Primary could be embedded in your school

• Part two is for the PE Leaders. It will enable you to:

• demonstrate a life skills approach to teaching and learning in PE

• plan how to implement a life skills approach in your teaching of PE

ResourcesIncludes 16 teacher and learner cards for ages 4-7 and 27 teacher and learner cards for ages 7-11, covering social, thinking, physical, creative and healthy themes.

The resources are included in the YST Plus and Premium Membership. For more information contact membership@youthsporttrust.org.

For more information and to access My Personal Best go to www.youthsporttrust.org/mypersonalbestpri£1,250*

£299*

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My Personal Best: Thinking ME...

My Personal Best is about being the best I can be.

Being a Thinking ME means I create opportunities, overcome

challenges and make choices, in school and in life. To be the

best Thinking Me I can be, I need to develop the skills on the

tree. Taking part in PE will help me to develop these skills.

BE THE BEST OF WHATEVER YOU ARE

If you can’t be a pine at the top of the hill,Be a scrub in the valley – but beThe best little scrub by the side of the rill;Be a bush if you can’t be a tree.

If you can’t be a bush be a bit of the grass,And some highway happier make;If you can’t be a muskie then just be a bass – But the liveliest bass in the lake!

We can’t all be captains, we’ve got to be crew,There’s something for all of us here.There’s big work to do, and there’s lesser to doAnd the task you must do is the near.

If you can’t be a highway then just be a trail,If you can’t be the sun, be a star;It isn’t by size that you win or you fail – Be the best of whatever you are!

Douglas Malloch

Written by Carol Hawman in consultation with Lancashire primary headteachers and PE leads.

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Decision-making

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Curiosity

Imag

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Reflection

Evaluation

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My Personal Best (Primary 2): to support PE for 7-11 year olds

CommunicationCo-operation

Trust

Gratitude

Empa

thy

Fairness

Resp

ect

Encouragement

My Personal Best uses a life skills approaching to teaching PE. It supports every child to flourish and to achieve their personal best in PE, in school and in life. The Primary 2 resource is aimed at 7-11 year olds.

Social Me supports pupils to develop the traits that help them to understand others and work well with other people. These traits are shown in the Social Me tree.

TOP Programmes

My Personal Best has grown from the multi-ability model that underpins the TOP programmes:

• Healthy Me – developing children’s physical and mental health and personal skills.

• Social Me – developing children’s ability to work well with others.

• Thinking Me – developing children’s cognitive and creative skills.

• Physical Me – developing children’s ability to move effectively and efficiently.

Activities selected from TOP Games, TOP Gymnastics, TOP Dance, TOP Athletics and TOP Challenge (Outdoors) have been used to exemplify how the Social Me traits could be developed in PE. These are only examples: My Personal Best can be delivered through a wide range of physical activities as the focus is on how PE is delivered – teaching and learning methods – rather than what is delivered.

Written by Carol Hawman in consultation with Lancashire Primary Headteachers and PE leads.

Social ME...

ROOT VALUES

Give pupils a strong foundation.

PERFORMANCE SKILLS

Enable pupils to act independently.

CORE STRENGTHS

Support pupils’ personal growth.

New for the 18/19 academic year, the approach was developed in consultation with primary headteachers and practitioners in Lancashire and was piloted in 30 schools across the county in 2017/18.

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