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I want to share with today you an example of how a positive personality along with imaginative ideas are essential tools to creating a strong desire to learn and achieve from your pupils.

Sarah Saputo, a PE teacher at Park Way Primary School in Kent has quickly risen to become one of our most passionate and inspirational contributors.

Her philisophy is to "educate young people on the importance of leading a healthy lifestyle whilst making it fun yet challenging at the same time".

Sarah has used "outside of the box thinking" to engage pupils in other areas of the curriculum through PE this term, using a variety of ways including:

• Encouraging literacy every lesson by children reading the whiteboard and filling in the missing letters of key words

• Using numeracy in dance.  Pupils are shown a dance move for each number and they had to dance out their date of birth etc. This was progressed through dancing out maths calculations and adding decimal points to add a challenge This was great for showing children that anyone can choreograph a dance with just a few moves. The boys loved this too!

•  Science in sport. During a sprinting lesson pupils place a cone to where they think they could sprint to in 3 seconds. They had to move the cone to where they actually got to. This can be then replicated for 6 seconds, and so on. This can then lead into Q and A about acceleration and is a good differentiation tool for mixed ability classes.

Sarah adds that the outstanding teachers should "support best use of language and show your audiences how to use the knowledge gained of subjects within the real world to develop skills which are transferable" 

I hope you find this information useful. Please feel free to share this blog with anyone who may benefit from receiving it.

Best regards,

Samir Sawhney,
Progress Manager - Head of Multiple services
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