 So, to make sure you're in the right place, we're in a webinar looking at Teach Active, which is a great platform to think about, you know, physical learning in the curriculum, how we can support people's transition back to school, whatever you're working from, with a physically active recovery curriculum. And John is going to come on the line and say hello and give a little demo. So last time we did a session early February, we had over 200 people watching. So maybe one or two of you have come back again, or it's your first time. So just let us know. So hi, Polly. So all your messages, folks, in the chat box come to me only. So do say hello and training teachers or experienced school teachers. There's five of you watching at the moment. So let me know where you're watching from. Otherwise it's going to be a bit lonely talking to myself. So where are you watching from? What do you do? So John, while people find out where the chat box is, can you just say hello to everyone and let everyone know your role in a quick little whistle stop introduction about Teach Active? Yeah, brilliant. OK, good afternoon, everyone. Nice for those of you who've managed to join us. I know it's really busy at the moment. So my name is John Snedley. I'm the founder of Teach Active and some of you may have come across Teach Active before some of you it may be completely new to you. But of course, Teach Active, as well as delivering a lot of teacher training, we actually have the Teach Active resource, which we're going to demo to you this afternoon, which has been used and utilized in schools for the past six years, making a real difference as we will show and the benefits to that. And hopefully it's something that you look at and actually think that it can be of beneficial to your children within your school or within your setting as well. OK, thank you, John. So again, in the chat box, everybody, just for a bit of feedback, we can see the conversation to suit you much better, having a small audience. And so I've got a couple of training features. Holly and Kate, is it primary or secondary? That would be very helpful. And thank you, Fiona, in Swansea, an FE lecturer. OK, secondary, thank you, Holly. And primary, Kate. OK, so anybody else watching? John, so I guess we can start with what is Active learning to begin with? Maybe you want to just put a slide up on the screen or show everyone what the website looks like. You know, you and I are familiar with the platform. We've been looking at this for a couple of months, at least from my perspective. And I know Teach Active have been around for a number of years. Can we just give everyone a quick little whistle stop introduction? Of course, yeah, I'm just. I.T. seems to be working very slow at my end, but just my screen with you and just a couple of slides, literally just to what teach at times in this situation rather than always necessarily listening to me talking to you about what Teach Active is, it's sometimes nice just to do a two minute video and just to see some children taking part, see some teachers and head teachers talking a little bit about what Teach Active is. So I'm going to try and share this with you. Working from home like many others of us, I think my internet decides to be a little bit slower, but I'm going to try and share the video with you. If not, Ross, we're going to have to. But yeah, of course, physically active learning, what we mean is just getting children up and back to active within the classroom. And of course, incorporating physical activity into English in your maths lessons. You know, it's something that I did as a teacher for 20 years as a peer advisor, as a then going back into school as a deputy head in charge of raising standards in English and maths and those key subjects like we all are, but actually thinking how can we get children to really love the subjects and actually found that by linking it to physical activity, you know, not only did it not only was it enjoyable, I actually had a whole host of benefits. So let me share this video with you. And as I said, it's just much nice to see some children taking part. Teach active are passionate about active learning, incorporating physical activity into the English and maths curriculum and using this approach to really drive up attitudes and attainment within these key subjects. Children benefit from teach active because the minute we mention we're going to do one of the activities straight away, I came to get involved, smiles on the faces and really want to join in, which is just so pleasing as a teacher. But it gets the children engaged, it gets them active, gets them moving and thinking once you've tried it a couple of times, it's a go to for lessons because it is so easy. They can choose their objectives, go to a drop down menu and the resources and lesson plans are there for you. That helps save teachers hours of planning time. The biggest thing is pupils really want to join in and take part with all the different activities that we've given them. So I definitely recommend it to the schools. We've got children now that we love maths and really enjoy and are engaged in it and that's really showing them the results. They want to learn them. They don't realise they're learning actually. Not only will it impact on your data, your standards, your outcomes, but you're seeing a renewed and vigour and enthusiasm and enjoyment across both pupils and staff. Containing over 3,000 plans mapped to the primary curriculum and covering every objective from foundation stage to year six. Teach active will save your teachers hours of planning time and complement any scheme of work and it will really allow active learning to become embedded within your school. Thank you, John. And so thank you to one or two that are just joining. So there'll be a good number of people watching this recorded after. So if you've just joined in the chat book, just let us know where you are watching from, your context, what you teach. And the teach active, John, we know it's a portal of resources for teachers. We know that well-being is going to matter before covid, and particularly during and after. And could you just we've got a few snapshots from teachers in the video. You know, what are the benefits that you've seen in your life, you know, running teach active for a number of years now? What and last time we met, we had the privilege of Steve Tindall, one of our headteachers, talking about how he has each active immersed throughout his whole school culture and what are the benefits? OK, so I mean, as you saw, that teach active is this huge bank of ideas of resources. It's not a scheme of work so it can sit alongside and comment anywhere that schools are already doing. And I suppose that's a great question. You know, schools might say to me, well, actually, John, attitudes are really attainments, really good. But I would certainly say that, first of all, we're going to make the school day more active by by taking this approach. It's something that, you know, has always been very passionate. Something I've already always believed in. And more recently, of course, the Department for Education of our schools actually don't push physical activity to decide as part of your perhaps recovery curriculum as we all know it now, but actually prioritise it. And we're going to make the children more active. We know that children have been very sedentary over lockdown and during lockdown. But also it's that it's that love of learning. Steve Tindall, as you mentioned and many other schools say it's, you know, that's what we love as teachers. We want smiles on faces. We want children to love English and maths. We want them to have positive relationships with these with these subjects and certainly active learning. You know, that's what children really loving it. But it's not very in all good fun. It's not just that it really helps attainment as well. So we can do it in whole class and sessions. We can use it for interventions. We can use it for a lot of maybe addressing gaps in learning at the moment. And what we're seeing is that actually, you know, it's helping children to retain information and then recall that information and have that that deeper learning that, of course, is really important. So, John, we're put for time. So for a context, everyone, last time we met, we had over 200 teachers taking part in a webinar in February, we had an hour together, but this one's a short micro session. So, John, can we get the software up on the screen and allow everyone to see the kind of teacher profile? And in the chat box, everyone, I'm going to put the link to the free trial. So you have a little play with this. OK, so if my video thumbnail is anyone in anyone's way, you'll be able to just move that just by hovering above. I'm sure we're all used to using Zoom by now. But what I've done is I've just logged in to teach active. So it's an annual, you know, it's an online and an online resource. I think when we say that it can sometimes scare teachers. And I suppose that it may have as for me as well, but it's so easy to use. So on the left hand side is where we push all messages. But on the right hand side is where we want to focus our maths and our English lessons. We've got our homework. I will mention things to you like the whole school staff training. So if schools find that they want to introduce teach active, we provide training as part of that. But let me just click on the active maths lessons and let me share with you why teach active is so popular and why teachers love it and why, as I said to you, it saves you hours of planning time. OK, I did warm up before that seems right. OK, here we go. Lovely. So all we simply do is we choose our year group. We choose our area of maths and then we choose our objective. So we're all very familiar. So we can decide, well, what year group am I working with? We then get the area of maths and it's mapped to the English maths curriculum. So those of us who are following the English curriculum. Once we've chosen our area of maths, we then get every single objective as it's written in the national curriculum. So we can have a lot. What objective are we looking at this unit this particular day? And once we've done that, we then get a list of games on how to teach it through movement through getting children up and about. And that might be a lesson plan in the, you know, that might be something that we're doing in the classroom or it might be because sometimes that's the only space that we've got. Other times it might be encouraging children to go outside and or go down into the hall. And there's over 2000 maths plans. There isn't a single objective that we don't cover. Every single year group. And then, of course, if you like this lesson plan, you the lesson plan and all the resources are here for you. So I'll very quickly show you that just to Ross and everyone on that it's great because we've got the lesson plan. Great for the teacher, great for the teaching assistant. You've got it there. You can save it. Of course, you can print it off. And then all of the resources, answer sheets, record sheets, everything that you need for that game to go ahead is then provided. So perhaps many of you on this school, you've tried a bit of active learning before, you think the children love it. Actually, you really enjoy it, but it maybe takes you all Sunday afternoon to planet where you can see here it is all done for you. And Ross, I'll just give people a quick whistle stop toward the English as well. So again, those schools who are thinking, can I teach reading and writing but through physical activity in order to get that activity and levels up in order to encourage learning? Of course, so we can choose our year group. We've then got the areas of reading and writing. So if I went for a bit of writing, this is all perhaps all of our grammar, all of our gaps work, and for example, if I choose text level and it's with three and a half thousand lesson plans, it's perhaps hard in such a quick whistle stop toward to give you an idea. But as Ross said, you can sign up for a free trial and you can have a good look at these lessons. And actually, if you're working in the school at the moment, you can have a go and do them with the children. And let me finally share with you, we've done a bit of writing. Let me share with you a bit of reading. And any of you are interested in learning more, you can book a one to one with me, something I'm doing a lot of at the moment. And, you know, I can give you a bit more in depth look. But once we've gone for reading, we then get asked to choose which genre of text. Once we've perhaps chosen that, we then get all of the key skills, which we've got to teach as a primary school teacher, as we all know. Infants, I always say, it's such a big one. So this time you get the idea, we choose a game. Final thing to mention on this is on the right hand side here, you get the lesson plan, you get the resources. But because we've gone for poetry, so, for example, if I need a poem, you'll see that the poem is provided. And, of course, that's the same for when it's a story or when it's perhaps, you know, your letter, you put with Swayze White writing. The text is always there and is always provided for you as well. And that can be shared whole class, interventions, guided reading. And, of course, this is why teachers love it so much. Because, yeah, not only the benefits, but, of course, it's all done for you as well. Well, I'm just nodding, like a nodding dog at the back of the car all the time. And so you mentioned work, though. We know that burden of the teacher, that Sunday night planning that horrible stomach feeling. It's great to see that everything's in one place. I know you have, from your own passion as a teacher, isn't it, you've built this over a number of years. Could you show the audience an overview perspective, maybe a curriculum angle? Is there an admin feature? And I know one or two people we want to know the free trial. So in the chat box, everybody, the free trial link is there. And then we'll talk about costs later. If you are a middle school leader, what's your thinking? How can I get this into my school? What will it cost? Yeah, I mean, in terms of the overview and a bit of an admin, all I would say to you is it's mapped to the maths in English quickly. What I will do is if I just go on to, if I just go back to this slide here, just a moment. Well, I shall see it, John. You need, yeah, there you go. Okay, so if I share with you, I can just give you that overview in terms of, you know, all of the, as I mentioned, all of the objectives are covered. And that's what teachers like because every single week, every single lesson, there will be something that you can do. And when we were, you know, when we were submitted to the Department for Education and the example of good practice, the school that took it and said, well, one of my maths lessons each week will be through Teach Active. So it wasn't all of the time. As I said, all the brilliant work that you're already doing, it was to sit alongside it. And I think the benefits, of course, that we've already mentioned. And, you know, we work with over a thousand schools within the UK. We won many different awards that have many different accolades from, you know, such high awards as well and government reviews. But actually, what the best thing for us is those schools who work with us who come back and say this makes a real difference to the children and to the teaching and learning within our school. Thank you, John. So I'm just going to pose to people watching any questions in the chat box. And I'll ask John the question. Just for the chat box, your comments come to me only. So I'll pose them on your behalf. So just to recap, you know, we're looking at Active Learning here, how it can help your children's mental health. It's going to reduce your teacher workload. John spoke about how it's being used in other schools and international settings. I think we had 25 countries last time, John. We connected with 200 countries. 40, I believe. 40, I believe. 40, I believe. 40, it might be 40. And, you know, the government, if you're watching here in England, you know, the government, Department of Education, you know, the specific fund that's dedicated through your school's fund. So maybe John can talk about the PE sport funding in a moment if people need a bit of kind of oomph, I suppose, to take to school leaders to get that funding decision over the line. And as ever, for me, teacher workload, you know, that Sunday night feeling, having to come up with everything all the time, just to have off the shelf, resorters and lesson plans ready to go in those two important subjects, maths and English. I just think there's a huge benefit. So John, can you give a bit of advice in terms of funding for people watching? Yeah, of course. And, you know, I know it's perhaps early on, but of course, one question is, of course, the cost. We will come to, I will mention that at the same time, if that's okay. So I just, I can share some of these with you as well. But the best thing, of course, is to sign up for the trial as Ross mentioned. Okay, so for those schools who want to then subscribe to Teach Active and Indeed Do, of course, the free trial is there. It lasts for 14 days. It gives you access to not all of the plans, not all three and a half thousand, but, you know, it gives you access to three maths and three English for every class from foundation stage to year six. So you can have a go with your class. You can give them to your colleagues. You can say have a go and, of course, see if those benefits are in truth with your children or the active. Have they got smiles on their faces? Is it helping learning? And then if you think that Teach Active is something you'd like to roll out throughout your school, and as you can see, the price. So there's a slight discount for anyone attending the webinar as well, and a discount code for you there. So nine, seven, five, or 2,750, but reduced to eight, nine, five, and 2,500. Most schools, yeah, some schools use their English budget, their maths budget, maybe some of their COVID funding, but the vast majority of schools here in the UK use their P in sport funding. I'm sure most people are aware. So most all schools in England get 16,000 pounds plus 10 pounds per pupil. So your average school is getting 18,000 pound. It's ring fenced. There's a criteria of five things. One of those is making the school day more active, helping children to achieve 60 minutes. And of course, what we say is active learning is perfect for that. Rather than asking staff to do more, more, more, we're just saying do what you already do, but incorporate movements. And of course, the research there shows the impact that that can have. So John, we're talking about primary setting here. I know there's a couple of secondary teachers watching in an FA lecture at least, from what people have taught me in the chat box. Any advice for what they can do with the software in their context, if it's going to be transferable or not? Okay, yeah. So funny enough, because we work in partnership with the youth sport trust, too many of the will know. And we do have a lot of secondary schools who use TeachActive with year seven and year eight children, with SCN children, or as part of a transition project as well. So if we have different bespoke prices, for example, if schools get in contact and say, this is just the one class of SCN children, there's 24 children. So in order for that, if I share with my email at the end, and if anyone wants to kind of open up that discussion, very happy to deal with that, yeah. Right. John, I want you to go back to the nice stuff, the kind of resources that you skip through. Yeah. I know a lot of teachers will want to see those in a bit more detail. Could you just explain what some of these are on the screen? There's just some... Of course, yeah. So if I just go back, now if I was with you, what we would do is we would play some games. And of course, Zoom has perhaps taken that away a little bit. But this year two game, you can see on the lesson plan, we've got the area of maths, and we've got the objective. And the typical games that I'm sure that you've played before, but some children would have an analog clock, some of us would have a digital clock. We might dance around the room to music, and when that music stops, we're all going to find a partner. And then we swap cards, and we go again, and we go again. And this might inform planning, it might help with assessment, but just really helping children to master the key skills, really encouraging maths chat, some good social skills teamwork. And if I was using this as an intervention, I might just do putting the clocks in different part, different maybe areas of the hall and getting the children to run and pair them up. Similarly, this is a year six, you know, year six sats, you know, and the anxiety of sats. So what I used to do with my year six is I used to cut the clues and put them around the school field. This is a game where the children would answer a typical year six sats question, but the answer would tell them which card to go to next. And then the answer to that, which one to go to next, to next, to next. And the children, of course, completing multi-step problems. And when I do this with teachers on training courses, the competitive element always comes out in there, always running around. And if we have a look here, writing year one, what we're actually going to do is collect a big physical sentence, collecting cards, collecting words, and then we're going to join the words and clauses using the word and, and of course, as we go up through the year groups, we might start adding different things, different grammar or perhaps adding objectives adverbs and identifying nouns, but again, just doing it in more of an active, an active way. Children, this is a game for, you know, mentioned very quickly about paragraphs. And paragraphs can be something that's quite mundane, quite boring to teach perhaps, or we teach it and we think the children have got it, but actually maybe we need to revisit two weeks later and how they retain that information. And again, through playing it through fun and engaging ways. And often teachers say to me, John, the children forgot they were, you know, they didn't even realise they were learning or they forgot because they were just having so much fun and engrossed in the activity. Let's go on a treasure hunt punctuation. Let's go and read some, a story and then go and answer questions or go and find clues around and answer the questions that we've got. Here we're provided with a story and here similar, we're providing with poems where we would read a poem and then again, go and answer questions and explain key facts. So three and a half thousand lesson plans, Ross, just to give people a little bit of a flavour of perhaps what some of them look and feel like. But we say the best thing is to get a free trial and have a go with your class. So I guess that, you know, you're drawn on a lot of kind of cognitive science, you know, memory, cuisine, you know, also we know, you know, that if you're active, you're going to sleep better. It's better for memory, better sleep even and good productivity in the classroom. The benefits are really clear, everyone. So any questions in the chat box now is your chance. John, I guess from me, I know we've got a couple of trainee teachers watching. What advice would you give them, you know, apart from sign up for the free trial? How are they going to convince the rest or to at school, their senior leaders to part of the cash or to sign up or to take a little look? Yeah, I would say, of course, for the trainee teachers that are with us, you know, we do work with lots of trainee teachers. So I don't know whether we've actually worked with you guys and again, let us know in the chat box. But again, if you've got a good relationship with your tutor, do mention Teach Active because we deliver CPD to universities and different organisations. But, you know, try and incorporate when you want to one of your school placements, try to sign up for a Teach Active trial with the school, see if they're quite open to you having a go at this way of learning. And for your teachers working back in school, you know, hopefully you've come on this webinar because you're quite passionate about active learning like I am. And the only thing I could say is, you know, I know that teachers went into the profession like me because they want children to love learning. That's why we spend so long trying to plan engaging lessons and this, sitting alongside what you already do will really make a difference. And it will really make an impact within your children and within your school. And, you know, I've seen that in so many schools. I'm very confident of that, not only within my own teaching, but we're now working with thousands of teachers across the country. So there you have it, folks. Teach Active are short and sharp little session. You've seen all the resources, you've seen the website, you've seen how it's going to make your Sunday nights better. You know, it's also going to make the lives of your children happier, improve the maths and English also. And I think that was a great message before COVID. It's going to be even more important now. And, you know, I think the costs, you know, I see a lot of these platforms for my life as a teacher blogger. So I know the costs are pretty good. I know some of you will have questions, well, I'm a tiny, tiny little school or I'm an international school, those types of things. So feel free to pose the question in the chat box or unmute yourself. But I think that's it formally now, John, is it? We'll kind of end things there. We'll share the video and John's presentation with you all through Eventbrite. And I'll put this video up on my YouTube channel. So thank you, John. I've just shared in the chat box my email if anyone wants to touch base. But again, thank you for your time and for joining us. And I hopefully get the opportunity to work with some of you over the coming year. Thank you, John. Any questions? Jane, any questions? Anybody, Kate? Jane? Yeah, just one quick question. I was just saying, thank you. Sorry, Jane. You may have covered it. Apologies if he did. The cost that you mentioned, is that limited to a certain number of teachers or is that whole school access? Oh, hi, Kate. That is, yeah, sorry, and probably I didn't. So the, for example, the cost that we mentioned, that's for a school license. So that's for every single teacher across your school and they can all be on at the same time. They all get individual logins. And then it also stretches out as well for the teach active homework element that we have as well. So hopefully, therefore, it's for, you know, for that cost you can put active learning across your whole school. Okay. Great. Thank you very much. That was really helpful. Thank you. Thank you, Kate. Jane, a question? No, okay. Last chance. Would you say thank you? Oh, my pleasure. Thanks for joining us. Bye. Thank you. Any last questions? Anybody now who has your chance? So the hyperlinkteachactive.org forward slash contact. They say thank you for tuning in and get yourself physically active ourselves as well as your kids. But we'll leave it there formally. You're very, very last chance to unmute yourself. I'll ask a question otherwise. Holly, you've got yourself unmuted. Oh, no. I'm just going to go. But thank you. It was really good. Thanks, everyone. Bye. Thank you. Bye-bye. Bye, everybody. Cheers, John. I'll speak to you soon.