Case Studies
Wheldon Sports College
(Nottinghamshire, Yorkshire and East Midlands)
What did you want to do?
- Learn how to practice high quality everyday with all PE faculty members.
- Transform what was being taught in PE into high quality.
What did you do?
- Approached the Teacher Education Department at Loughborough University to be involved in a joint research programme about delivering high quality PE.
- Used KS3 gymnastics as an example with the aim of finding out how well the school was teaching it and to seek the views of students.
- The University came into school and interviewed staff and students.
- The University developed a unit of work for the school to deliver that forced them to deliver high quality. The unit was state of the art and in sync with the Key Stage 3 Strategy, PESS Project and PESSCL Strategy.
- Literacy was introduced into every lesson.
- Teachers delivered the unit of work as an experiment and the University are analysing the results.
- Two year 7 classes were taught with the new style of teaching and 1 class with the old style.
- The University videoed lessons and wrote up reports.
What difference did this make?
- All members of the faculty are forced to think high quality.
- Teachers have been provided with improved and fresh ideas for teaching.
- Informal lesson observations show improvements in student learning.
- Teachers felt that they achieved more with the students.
