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Courses available
Including Disabled Performers
Target group: Primary and mainstream secondary school teachers, learning support assistants, coaches, SENCOs, adults other than teachers and any others involved in delivering PE and school sport, out of school hours learning (OSHL) and sport in the community.
Course content: This practical course will ensure that pupils with special education needs, learning difficulties, physical or sensory impairments can take part in a positive PE and games experience. This course is aimed at children in mainstream schools and how to include them appropriately within PE lessons.
Course length: 6 hours
TOP Sportsability
Target group: Primary and secondary teachers, teaching assistants, young leaders and coaches who work with young people with disabilities
Course content: The course will formally introduce participants to disability specific sports such as Boccia, New Age Curling, Polybat, Floor Lacrosse and Table Cricket in a way that they can then use in sports clubs and schools.
Course length: 6 hours
To download the Youth Sport Trust factsheet, click here.
Elements
Target group: Teachers and teaching assistants working with young people who have profound and multiple impairments.
Course content: There is a generic workshop and 4 facilitated practical workshops designed to provide practical ideas and strategies around physical activity through sensory stimulation.
The workshops to choose from are:
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Earth - games-based activities
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Sensory environment encouraging individual reaction and movement
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Supported interaction developing basic skills
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Group settings to promote participation, anticipation and interaction
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Water - water-based activities
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Promoting confidence and relaxation
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Achieving stillness and balance
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Stimulating movement and independence
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Air - Outdoor adventure
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Preparation of students and staff
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Specific equipment considerations
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Supporting and Encouraging
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Fire - Dance and movement
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Using movement, sound and vibration to direct big movements
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Assisted and directed movement
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Self-expression and independent movement
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Course length: Core module 4 hours, Workshops: 2 hours each
Sherborne Developmental Movement
(Basic course 1)
Target group: Teachers and teaching assistants working with young people who have profound and multiple impairments.
Activities:
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Awareness of Self
This is gained through movement experiences that help the person concentrate so that they become aware of what is happening to their body, "listening" via touch and by feeling of inner physical sensations rather than by our usual looking and thinking. This helps lessen self-criticism and allows people to grow in terms of self-esteem and confidence both at a physical and emotional level.
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Awareness of Others
The next step is to begin to learn to move around and interact with others in ways that encourage the further development of trust and the building of positive relationships. These movement experiences enable the person to be appropriately supported while being encouraged to explore their unique creativity through shared movement activities.
Course length: 6 hours
There are Basic Course 2 and Advanced Practitioners courses available. For more information, visit the Sherborne Association website, click here.
