Primary School PE Specialism Course

Level 5 Certificate in Primary School Physical Education Specialism Course

Now Open for Applications

September 2023 - April 2024

With the recent Government announcement that the PE and School Sport Premium Funding has been confirmed for the next two years, we feel this is a perfect opportunity to consider the long-term sustainability of your PE and School Sport offer in your school, focusing on training qualified core teachers in this specialism.

This nationally recognised qualification, accredited by AfPE and Sports Leaders UK, aims to upskill primary school teachers, future teachers and school support staff to improve the overall delivery of the Physical Education curriculum.

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This is a perfect opportunity to use your Primary PE & Sport Premium funding to focus on staff CPD.

This is a bespoke physical education and school sport qualification for primary school teachers, future teacher and school support staff, developed by the Association for Physical Education (AfPE) and Sports Leaders UK.

The aim of the qualification is to up-skill primary colleagues to be able to assist the delivery of high quality primary school PE. The course will address the top 3 concerns of subject knowledge, health and safety and subject leadership.

Course Update

At Active Together (formerly known as Leicester-Shire & Rutland Sport) we are committed to supporting our primary schools with the continued professional development of their staff, to ensure the delivery of high quality PE, school sport and physical activity for all pupils in all schools.

To date, we have successfully trained over 120 primary teachers and support staff and we are committed to ensuring we have a PE specialist in every school across Leicestershire, Leicester, and Rutland.

With the recent Government announcement that the PE and School Sport Premium Funding has been confirmed for the next two years, we feel this is a perfect opportunity to consider the long-term sustainability of your PE and School Sport offer in your school, focusing on training qualified core teachers in this specialism.

This course requires five days of tutor delivery, followed by individual work back at School and in delegates own time. The first four days are taught in an intensive format, over two consecutive weeks, with the final day later in the academic year.

What’s involved? How will this year’s course run?

Average learning time: 141 hours which includes 45 tutored guided learning hours and 96 independent learning hours.
This includes the completion of individual learning tasks and to do this it is important that there is support from the school's Senior Management Team to enable the delegate to complete all aspects of the course.

Additional individual 1-1 feedback / support sessions as required.
Course assessment will be carried out through formal written assignments, group-based tasks and group discussion.
During the course, a senior leader at your school will be required to undertake a formal observation of your PE teaching.
Delegates will be asked to carry out significant work in their own time, however additional release time within school may be needed for some of the tasks.