Be the Best you can Be! London Inspiring, Engaging and
Empowering Young Londoners
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Mayors Fund for London Helping young Londoners grow
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The Mayors Fund for London and 21 st Century Legacy working
together to inspire, engage and empower Young Londoners to reach
their potential..
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The link between pupil health and well-being and attainment..
promoting physical and mental health in schools creates a virtuous
circle reinforcing childrens attainment and achievement that in
turn improves their well-being, enabling children to thrive and
fulfil their potential Nov 2014
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Key findings of the NAHT & PHE Report Pupils with better
health and wellbeing are likely to achieve better academically.
Effective social and emotional competencies are associated with
greater health and wellbeing, and better achievement. The culture,
ethos and environment of a school influences the health and
wellbeing of pupils and their readiness to learn. A positive
association exists between academic attainment and physical
activity levels of pupils.
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An Educational Legacy going beyond sport, to help young
Londoners to fulfil their potential
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Dr David Hemery CBE Olympian and Gold medallist 1968 Founder
and Co-Director of the Educational Charity, 21 st Century Legacy
Co-author of Be the Best they can Be! Enhanced
Coaching/Facilitation and Self-managed Leadership in Education
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The Be the Best you can Be! programme is based on best
educational practice and draws on Davids 30 years of teaching and
Management Development experience in
coaching/mentoring/facilitation and self-managed leadership
Coaching is the How to of Self-Empowerment, by asking questions
that generate thought and self-responsibility
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Continuing Professional Development (CPD) (half day or full
day) of coaching sessions delivered to all staff by a 21CL coach. A
half day programme launch at your school with a Special Speaker
(all of whom are high achievers, including but not limited to
Olympians and Paralympians) who will deliver a whole school
assembly and spend the morning at your school. A wide range of
resources including a teacher guide, an online personal development
plan for each student, work books for KS3 and KS4 pupils and
support from the 21 st Century Legacy team. You will receive
baseline and endpoint assessments to track the distance travelled
by students participating on the programme and to provide data and
evidence for Ofsted and your SIP (School improvement plan). An
optional Celebration Event is available to schools to recognise the
efforts and achievements of the students and teachers involved at
an extra cost to the school.
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The Half Day Coaching Session How to improve teaching and
learning A 3-4 hour focus on coaching strategies How to coach
through asking questions How to listen to the answer, and ask
questions which are driven by the answer- effective feedback How to
increase self awareness of ones strengths/weaknesses, and what you
need to do next. How to increase self responsibility in terms of
understanding why you are doing something, how much does it matter?
Understanding what you need to step out of your comfort zone.
Understanding the importance of helping each other. Resilience
SMART goals GROW model
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Inspiration- Programme Launch A high-achieving Special Speaker
will visit your school to launch the programme for staff and
students. They highlight the need for setting goals, resilience,
hard work, and finding and listening to supporters.
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Programme Launch Programme Launch at Tweeddale Primary School,
Carshalton with Hannah Beharry
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Be the Best you can Be! is a whole school approach to raising
aspirations and attainment National Curriculum Progress &
Achievement Behaviour Parental Engagement Governors
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The vehicle in school for this Programme is usually P.S.H.E.
Students make dream books following a scheme of work and themes
Theme 1- A Special Speaker Theme 2- Vision and Goals ( SMART) Theme
3- Values Theme 4- Questioning and Listening Theme 5- Comfort Zones
and Resilience Theme 6- Body, Mind, Emotion, Spirit Theme 7-
Reflection and Celebration Every teacher receives: Teachers Guide a
Support Guide and worksheets can be downloaded from the
website
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Making it relevant to everyone- whole school approach PSHE
teacher - sorted Maths Teacher ? Teaching Assistants - ? Lunch time
supervisors - ?
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Learning Outcomes for students.. A Holistic Approach
Personalised Learning Thinking Self-Aware Independent Resilient
Engaged Motivated Committed Responsible Confident filled with self
belief
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Having a structured conversation is the key to unlocking
learning (links with Achievement for All and P.E.P) What books do
you want to be able to read? Have you got a plan B? By what time?
What would be the best way for you? Who can help you? What might
stop you? What is your first step? The answers have to be SMART 5
sub level increase in 3 months
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Be the Best You Can Be- putting every child at the centre
Teacher Coaching Self Coaching Peer Coaching A P.E.P for every
child
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Silent coaching with the whole class What is your goal in
Maths/English/History/Science/P.E.? What is happening now? Out of
10 how much do you want to achieve this goal? By what time do you
want to achieve it? What do you need to do to achieve it? What else
could you do? What qualities are you going to need to be
successful? What might stop you from achieving your goal? Who can
help you? What can they do to help you? If you had a friend who had
this problem, what advice would you give them? How will you know
when you have achieved your goal? What would it feel like if you
didnt succeed? What will it feel like when you do achieve your
goal?
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Using the GROW Model as a lesson plan The G.R.O.W. Model G =
Goals R = Realities O = Options W = Will The Outstanding lesson
Model What are my goals? Children and teacher negotiate targets.
What are the realities? Self assessment,peer assessment and teacher
assessment gives them the answer to the question What do I already
know? and What do I need to know next? What are my options? The
child and the teacher work out and agree a success criteria which
enables learning to take place. These are the steps needed for
progress to take place. The children complete the actions that they
have agreed which are necessary to achieve the success criteria. At
the end of the lesson the children go back to the new reality and
the new goals ready for the next lesson.
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Ofsted Approved Looking at what goes in, but more at what comes
out KEY INDICATORS/OUTCOMES Aware Independent Resilient Engaged
Responsible Confident PROGRESS and ACHIEVEMENT Focussed Positive
Purposeful From an Ofsted Inspection Report on a school in
Staffordshire, They have been highly effective in raising pupils
aspirations by working with the school to increase ambition.in
particular, to set ambitious goals as part of the Be the Best you
can Be Programme
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Wider Outcomes and Opportunities the whole school Level 1 The
students are inspired, engaged, empowered. The teacher can work
through the programme in PSHE. The students make dream books, and
this work can be ongoing. Level 2 Apply elements of the Programme
across the curriculum into every lesson (Progress and Achievement)
Level 3 Create a school culture (everyone shares the same child
centred principles and the school is built upon these). Increase
parental involvement
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Well-being measure Tracking the distance travelled..
Self-esteem Emotional well-being Resilience Satisfaction with
community Satisfaction with school Life satisfaction
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Programme costs Be the Best you can Be normally costs schools
1500 For eligible schools (with 22% FSM), the Mayors Fund for
London covers half of the costs so the programme costs 750
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Case- study, Morden Mount Primary School, Greenwich We couldnt
have picked a better or more inspiring or timely project for Morden
Mount than Be the Best you Can Be the message said it all for a
Cinderella school in serious weaknesses that serves a very
challenging area and had always bumped along the bottom of league
tables. Hannah Beharry, World Boxing Champion, was amazing
motivating the children to aim high and challenge stereotypes to
achieve their goals and dreams. Staff also really appreciated the
training in life coaching some Teaching Assistants saying it was
the best INSET they had ever had and I can see its influence in the
way they talk to and encourage pupils in lessons. The children have
achieved great results and Morden Mount is now Good with
Outstanding features! Briony Brammer, Head Teacher Morden Mount
Primary School, Greenwich