Free training: Bring sport to life with immersive human stories

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In partnership with Youth Sport Trust, we’re inviting PE teachers and sports curriculum leads from across the UK to free online training on 11 October 2021, to discover how interactive technology and real-world stories can be used to enhance PE lessons and teach young people vital skills.
Afnan and her team in storyworld More Than a Game.
Afnan and her team in storyworld More Than a Game.
Created in partnership with national children's charity Youth Sport Trust, the training session will share ready-made lesson plans and approaches to help teachers engage students with key values through sport, such as resilience, inclusivity and teamwork.
With 73% of children returning to school with low levels of physical fitness, and the pandemic having a devastating impact on mental wellbeing, the training session will explore the connections between physical activity, healthy lifestyles and emotional wellbeing.
Linked to the national curriculum and UN Sustainable Development Goals, it will also uncover how stories of young people from across the world can be used by educators to explore a diverse range of topics from PE to relationships and sex education (RSE). Through powerful and immersive 360° spaces and short documentary film, you'll gain insight into:
Lyfta Values through Sport
  • How PE can be connected to RSE lessons to help children understand how physical and emotional health complement and impact one another
  • How real experiences of young people playing football around the world, from Brazil to China, can be used to demonstrate how sport helps young people cope with success and failure
  • How story-based lessons relating to gender stereotypes in sport, from female weightlifters to male ballet dancers, can spark discussion around inclusivity and empathy.
You'll get access to teaching resources and ready-made lesson plans that have been developed to convey the benefits of sports for all children, helping to tackle the barriers preventing girls, students from disadvantaged backgrounds and children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) from engaging with PE.
This follows new research from the Youth Sport Trust which finds just 39 per cent of girls say they enjoy PE lessons compared to 49 per cent of boys, citing reasons such as not being "good at exercise" or not being "competitive" enough.
Character & Values
Global Learning
Human Stories
Social Emotional Learning
Sport & PE
Personal Development