Create Development were delighted to be asked to develop and deliver the Slough Primary Young Ambassador training last week to support the promotion of London 2012 across the borough.

Organised and funded by Laura Brookstein, Network Manager for Slough School Sport Network, this event saw 50 year 4/5/6 child from 25 Junior and Primary schools from across the borough brought together to receive a full day of experiential learning on the Olympic and Paralympic Values, leadership skills and rounded off with collaborative learning and action planning for delivering a child driven legacy in Slough schools for 2012.

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Create  Development  is working with a group a of open-minded innovative practitioners in the field to put together an ongoing experiment to see whether just small focused changes to our planning and delivery can make massive differences to young people’s learning.

Our hypothesis is that ‘Some things are simply just more important than others.’ We have together come up with a suggested diet menu which we are going to call ‘Learning Nutrients’. The practitioners will attempt to steadily increase the amount of the 7 groups of learning nutrients the young people will receive in their sessions and report back on this blog the impact they are having on their learning.

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Create Development delivered a more able and talented assessment showcase in West Berkshire this week for 12 primary schools. Invited to deliver by the local partner (James Mandry – SGO and network manager for West Berkshire West), this event looked to deliver the following:

• Practical demonstration of assessment in PE using FUNS for everyone programme
• Engaging and challenging afternoon for the children
• A chance for teachers to explore assessment in PE and share best practice

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Another brilliant example of Redefining What’s Possible with young leaders today at Englefield Primary school.

Nominated by their peers for demonstrating one of the Olympic or Paralympic Values, these year 5 & 6 leaders then got a full day of Create Development training to support them to deliver a legacy for 2012!

The day started with sharing the learning journey with them before getting straight into River Crossing (from Raising the Bar) to draw out leadership skills. After some review and discussion they settled on: (more…)