The Sports Council

The Sports Council has been set up to accommodate five different sub groups, all of which research and help to develop different areas of the PE curriculum. You can download the latest Sports Council Newsletter here...

Leadership Team - Linking JSLA & Outdoor Leadership Courses

Role:

• To oversee communication and organisation of other leaders from curriculum classes
• In charge of organising break time activities
• To come up with ideas for sporting events and festivals
• To make links with business & sponsorship
• Aspirations and hero liaisons.
• To train KS3 students as lead learners in PE lessons

Sports Media Group - Linking literacy to PE

Role:

• To create termly sports newsletters to go home to parents
• To liaise with the PE department about forthcoming events
• To identify the Sports Personality of the Month
• To take on the roles of reporters and photographers at events
• To build a relationship with The Cornish Times in order to gain more press coverage.

Curriculum PE

• To gain views and opinions of fellow students from KS3 and 4 and feed them back to the sports council to discuss issues and find solutions to them
• To find out the views students have of PE at Callington through interviewing and writing questionnaires
• To assist in developing a personalised PE curriculum that caters for all types of personalities and one that is inclusive of both gender and individual needs

Curriculum Plus (Extra-curricular Activities)

An area for everyone in the Sports Council to discuss the following:

• What is being offered?
• What else do students want to do?
• How can we offer what students want?

Exam Sports Group (Usually one or two members of the sixth form)

• To identify students in need of extra help and set up learning triangles
• To liaise with PE theory teachers to get revision packs set up to help students revise
• To liaise with other Sixth Form PE students to help set up break time revision sessions

 

During 2007 - 8 the Sports Council set up the following:

• A Football tournament for KS3 Monday and Tuesday break times
• A Move and Groove activity for KS3 students Wednesday break times
• A GCSE revision session led by sixth formers on Wed / Thurs break times for KS4
• A termly newsletter
• Aspirations presentation at a Sports Presentation Evening
• Set up a BEBO web page with specialist security system
• Questionnaire and findings about the curriculum throughout key stages