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SCHOOL GAMES – RAISING ACHIEVEMENT JAMES CAPPER Senior Lecturer, Staffordshire University VICKI THOMPSON School Games Organiser, Denbigh High School

SCHOOL GAMES – RAISING ACHIEVEMENT JAMES CAPPER Senior Lecturer, Staffordshire University VICKI THOMPSON School Games Organiser, Denbigh High School

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SCHOOL GAMES – RAISING ACHIEVEMENT

JAMES CAPPERSenior Lecturer, Staffordshire University

VICKI THOMPSONSchool Games Organiser, Denbigh High School

RAISING ACHIEVEMENT

Workshop Aims:

1. How can we engage the wider school in the School Games and embed the School Games within school?

2. How can we use the School Games to raise achievement across the whole school?

3. To share some of the key findings of existing research in this area and invite you to support further work and contribute to a ‘live’ research project.

TO START…

Discuss…

What is the purpose of competition?

How do you use competition?

PURPOSE OF COMPETITION

• Comparison of achievements• Winning and Losing? Developing appropriate attitudes• Teaching values – team work, self belief, determination, passion, respect, honesty, responsibility, perseverance, resilience, initiative• Character building• Celebration of achievement / personal best • Preparation for success in real world (competition part of life)• Can motivate students to ‘try hard’ and ‘do their best• Goal setting• Focus on strategies and tactics• Mastering skills• Can stimulate ‘learner buy-in’ and engagement• Can develop social moral aspects of education• Opportunities for leadership

ENGAGING WIDER SCHOOL

Denbigh High School, Luton

• Denbigh High School is an outstanding school with approximately 1120 students between 11-16

• A highly successful school that has a decade-long record of year-on-year achievement at GCSE

• 97% EAL, 75% Asian, 20% Black & 5% White

ENGAGING WIDER SCHOOL

Using Level 1 Intra School Games

Where were we?

• Sporadic team sports • Inter-form matches (sport only)• Sports Day

Why change?

• To give greater structure• To give greater whole school impact• To develop a greater sense of belonging• Opportunities for all students• To raise aspirations for all to achieve!

ENGAGING WIDER SCHOOL

What did we do?

• Tutor competitions every lunchtime across different sports

• Rebranded ‘inter form’ - creating excitement

• Fixtures list for every tutor group for the year, reminders every week

• Links to assemblies, celebrations weekly with running scores

• On going scores contributing to 3 day Olympic finals

• Bonus points for tutor support

• Variety in sports in/outdoor

DENBIGH HIGH SCHOOL, LUTON

Discuss…

Why just sport? Are there any current structured competitions taking place across other subjects?

ENGAGING WIDER SCHOOL

Competition Across the Curriculum – EBACC competitions

• Level 1 School Games – tutor competitions based on EBACC subjects once a week

• Needed to ensure engagement from other HoD and engagement from tutor groups

• In same way as sport, points awarded contributed to 3 day Olympics

ENGAGING WIDER SCHOOL

Competition Across the Curriculum – EBACC competitions

• Tutor groups compete every Friday morning during registration – based on English, Maths, Science, Humanities or Languages

• Tutor groups complete quiz and leave answer sheets in registers (different questions for each year group)

EMBEDDING SCHOOL GAMES

Level 2 EBACC competition

• First competition in English • Half of the secondary schools in the town engaged

• Engagement with our English department to design the competition rounds

• School Games Organiser to manage event

• Weekly training in place for all EBACC teams driving engagement and excitement

LEVEL 2 EBACC COMPETITION

• Created an excitement and buzz regarding this new type of competition for secondary schools

• Teams of 3 from Year 7, Year 8, Year 9 and Year 10

• All year groups undertook four rounds of 10 minutes long

• Activities were related to sport including anagrams based on the Olympic values, students giving an acceptance speech for ‘Sports Personality of the Year’ and writing an article on the inequalities linked with prize money

• Excellent opportunity for the best academic students to be involved in a competition that has the same values as the regular sports competitions but with less physical activity.

LEVEL 2 EBACC COMPETITION

Year 7 Round 1 – Anagrams and definitionsRound 2 – Sentence constructionRound 3 – Paragraph constructionRound 4 – Story writing

Year 8Round 1 – Linguistic techniques Round 2 – Puzzle Round 3 – Writing own body copyRound 4 – Pitch writing

Year 9Round 1 – Word wheel Round 2 – Olympic Pictionary Round 3 – Who done it? Round 4 – Just a minute

Year 10Round 1 – AnagramsRound 2 – Descriptive Writing Round 3 – Information relay Round 4 – Persuasive speech

ENGAGING WIDER SCHOOL

Discuss…

What are the barriers to these competitions in your school?

Who would you need to engage with?

EMBEDDING SCHOOL GAMES

Getting others involved - Events Management Team

Objective:

To increase the percentage of pupils engaged with the School Games not necessarily in a sporting context and not necessarily competing

EVENTS MANAGEMENT TEAM

T-Shirts that identified the pupils in the EMT were issued to the team. Captains for each role were selected and they took on extra responsibilities within their team

First EMT event; Town Basketball Tournament that took place in January. The pupils said……..

Invited pupils to their first “meeting” to share with them the idea and roles. They were given the choice to be involved, 32 our of the 34 selected signed contracts the following week.

Roles within the EMT were allocated and training commenced. Training takes place once a week

Selected pupils; target group (Year 9 FSM)

Contacted head of departments for maths and English with an overview and asked them to select an appropriate member of staff to become involved (CPD)

EVENTS MANAGEMENT TEAM

Tariqul Chowdury Captain of “Welcome Team”

My first experience of being in the events management team has been great, I havealways enjoyed speaking to visitors and it is great being involved with the big sportsevents as someone important.

Hudhyafah Zaman Captain of “Marketing Team”

The marketing team is great, I am really enjoying my role of “Captain” It was good tosee some of my work displayed around school in the lead up to the basketballevent.

Sana Boston Captain of “Media Team”

Being apart of the media was awesome, I loved interviewing the coaches and playersthroughout the games, I think they enjoyed the attention too. We are working hard editing our work now which is fun but quite hard work too.

Zaqwan Mohammed Captain on “Statistics Team”

The statistics team worked well together in their first event, some of the other schools even asked for copies of the statistics.

RAISING ACHIEVEMENT

Competition for all - Evaluation from children:

• Raising self esteem and boosting confidence of all

• Increasing motivation and dedication to subjects

• Increase in unity and belonging (tutor groups)

• Increase in aspirations

Competition in school settingsWhat can be learned from the literature?

•How is competition conceived by learners and teachers?

•Perceived purposes of competition within schools?

•Potential problems?

•How are competitive activities best taught in schools?

How can competition perceived by learners and teachers?

Power, Dominance,

control

How is competition conceived by learners and teachers?

Ego-oriented?

Extrinsic motivations?

Could lead to ‘unhealthy’ outcomes

How can competition perceived by learners and teachers?

Strategies & Tactics

How can competition be conceived by learners and teachers?

Alternative elements of competitive activities…

•Being ‘players’ and taking part in the fullest sense

•Mastering skills

•Task oriented? Intrinsic motivations? Pro-social outcomes?

Purposes of competition within schools?

•Can motivate students to ‘try hard’ and ‘do their best’

•Develop appropriate attitudes to winning and losing

•Preparation for success in real world (competition is part of life)

•Builds character [little evidence for this is practice]

•Can stimulate ‘learner buy-in’ and engagement

Purposes of competition within schools?

•Can develop social moral aspects of education

•Teach individual responsibility (as part of team)

•Develop team building skills – socialising impacts

•Can develop perseverance and resilience

•Opportunities for leadership, taking initiative and decision-making

Potential challenges?

•Gender issues. Girls and competition

•Differing abilities and skill levels – often less able and less skilled learners experience competitive activities negatively

•The positive impacts of some forms of competition are only available to those who can sometimes achieve success

•Can create alienation and embarrassment – may exclude

•May impact negatively on some learners’ self-perceptions self-esteem, self-confidence and self-efficacy

When using competition in schools…

•Need to be critically reflective about competition

•Consider how to manage a competitive environment in classrooms to cater for mixed ability groups

•Be empathetic with those who are having difficulties

•Promote intrinsic, self-determined forms of motivation

•Role of teacher as facilitator rather than instructor

When using competition in schools…

•Draw on TGfU theory – during competition activities use questions, prompts, feedback to enable learners to discover solutions to problems

• Reflect in & on action

•Stoppage time needed during competition – for debate, dialogue and reflection. Learners gain perspective on others’ interpretations and actions

Action planning and discussion