PlayMaker Award

What is the PlayMaker Award?

The PlayMaker Award is a great introduction into leadership giving learners knowledge of how to organise small games and activities that can be used during curricular and extracurricular time, lunchtimes, breaks, as well as in sports clubs outside school hours. The PlayMaker Award aims to help learners develop leadership skills such as organisation, communication and teamwork, as well as helping to build confidence and self-esteem as they take on the responsibility of assisting in leading their peers and younger children.

Who is the PlayMaker Award for?

Anyone can become a PlayMaker, regardless of their sporting experience or prowess. The PlayMaker Award is designed in a way so that learners can participate and learn about key leadership skills. The recommended age range is 9-11.

How is the PlayMaker Award delivered?

Sports Leaders UK suggest approximately six hours for delivery of this Award. The length of the course will depend on your learners’ ability and the time you have available. RB Gym and Sport deliver the PlayMaker Award as a one-day course.

Is there any formal assessment?

Learners will all receive a leadership journal which they can use to record what they have done during the course; what they have learnt, what they have enjoyed and what they found most challenging. Certificates will be awarded once learners have completed the core elements of the PlayMaker Award and have put PACE into practice.

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Key Features

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Key Features

Here's why you should consider adopting our programme:

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How does RB Gym and Sport’s address the DFE Standards?

Professional development should have a clear focus on improving and evaluating pupil outcomes

Differentiated activities and lessons to ensure all pupils are challenged and make swift progress.
Regular shared assessment to match needs, experience and knowledge to curriculum support activities and delivery.

Professional development should be underpinned by robust evidence and expertise

Pre and post audit/evaluation.
Impact data reports.
Curriculum progress recording.
Quality assurance through regular observations and training.
Evidence reported on professional development forms.
Each member of staff has their own personal development folder to help develop, support, reflect and evidence progress.

Professional development should include collaboration and expert challenge

Sport Educators provide ongoing support, modelling, and challenge.
Regular feedback to help create, achieve, and reflect on weekly goals.

Professional development should include collaboration and expert challenge

Delivered on site in your lesson with your pupils.
Mentoring relationship pre, during and post lesson delivery.
Ongoing support for all teachers taking part.
Sport Educator can help engage children in sustained physical activity opportunitiese.g. Extra-curricular clubs, playleader awards etc.

Why is Balance-Ability important for children?

Pedal independently

Nearly half of the UK’s kids are unable to ride a bike by the time they turn six due to the increased pressures of modern lifestyles. By the time children reach year 5, only 50% of pupils on average can ride a pedal bike independently. Through a fun and safe introduction to riding a bike, Balance-ability aims to 'embed in the psyche' of young children that cycling is a part of life.

Improve skills

By improving balance and sensory processing skills, children with healthy vestibular systems can excel and those with challenges or weaknesses (those with Dyslexia, Down Syndrome, ADD and ADHD) can improve dramatically.

Enjoy physical activity

Fundamental motor skills are the building blocks for engagement in physical activity and aid all aspects of the learning process. If these skills are underdeveloped in childhood, children's ability to participate in and enjoy physical activity can be greatly diminished. In practicing gross and fine motor skills, children not only gain intellectually, but also grow in strength, develop new skills, and enjoy increased confidence levels in the face of new challenges.

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Activities

Fast Track

Demonstrate height and control of the body whilst you combine a variety of gymnastics jumps together across a 10-metre-long trampoline

Trampoline

Feel what it’s like to fly as you explore a range of jump, turns and seat drops on the trampoline.

A-Bars

Circle forward on the bar, use your strength to hold shapes and swing forwards and backwards on the A-Symmetrical bars.

Beam

Walk tall on tip toes 4 foot off the floor, in a variety of directions, perform ½ and 1/1 turns and stay as still as a statue as we test your 1 footed balance’s.

Floor

Perfect your forward roll across the floor and perform it from a jump onto high equipment.

Vault

Unleash your power as you run, hurdle step and squat on to various vaulting equipment.

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Upcoming Courses

15th & 16th October 2024

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6 Key reasons to deliver the PlayMaker Award

Focus on the four core areas of leadership – Participants, Area, Communication and Equipment.
Includes access to comprehensive resources which are easy to use.
Leadership challenges give ideas on how PlayMakers can put their basic leadership skills into practice after the course.
Links with the home encourages home/school links through the inclusion of home-based activities and by asking parents/carers to contribute to learners’ Leadership Journals.
Supports Key Stage 2 curriculum for English, physical education, PSHE and citizenship
The award can have a sustainable benefit to your school and can help you to achieve your sport premium aims by:
• Encouraging active play during break times and lunchtimes.
• Encouraging pupils to take on leadership or volunteer roles that support sport and physical activity within the school (such as ‘sport leader’ or peer-mentoring schemes).

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How your school can budget
for English on the Move

PE and Sport Premium

English on the Move addresses key indicators and raises the profile of physical activity across the whole school as a tool for whole-school improvement.

Pupil Premium

English on the Move raises the confidence and attainment of your pupils and ‘closes the gap’.

English Budget

English on the Move introduces innovative methods and helps your pupils achieve national standards in English.

Funding for Balance-Ability

Schools can utilize their Sport Premium Funding with Balance-Ability meeting the following targets:

Embedding physical activity into the school day through active travel to and from school, active break times and active lessons and teaching.
Develop or add to the PE, Physical Activity and Sport that your school provides.
Providing targeted activities or support to involve and encourage the least active children.