Mansfield Town Community Trust

Over the last two years, Mansfield Town Community Trust (MTCT) expanded their physical education support. Historically, the trust would only deliver football activities and very rarely, invasion games.

As an organisation we were looking to expand our PE and school sports offer to our local primary schools. We decided to partner with Complete PE based upon some of our employees’ previous experiences using their [Complete PE] resources, along with positive feedback from training courses that staff had attended.

During our expansion into wider curriculum delivery, we also expanded our delivery team. Some of these members had experience of using Complete PE in previous roles and spoke about the detail of the resources and the support it gave them when planning their lessons.

For our current staff with little experience outside of football delivery, the resources were pivotal in providing an insight into how PE lessons across different topics looked and how they are structured.

Upskilling a group of 12 delivery staff is never simple, especially when they are so used to delivering just one topic and area for a long period of time. For some, the transition was seamless, with the platform giving our staff a range of tools and delivery information to go out and deliver high quality PE. For other members of staff that couldn’t adapt straight away, they were given time to familiarise themselves and understand how they could implement this into the delivery.

Following a survey completed in February 2024, we asked staff how confident they felt planning a PE lesson prior to Complete PE recourses and a year after they were implemented. Only 3 out of 12 said they felt confident enough to plan and deliver PE outside of football. 18 months later, 10 out of 12 staff said they felt confident to plan and deliver across the PE curriculum, showing the impact resources had on our staff.

Following a survey completed in February 2024, we asked staff how confident they felt planning a PE lesson prior to Complete PE recourses and a year after they were implemented. Only 3 out of 12 said they felt confident enough to plan and deliver PE outside of football. 18 months later, 10 out of 12 staff said they felt confident to plan and deliver across the PE curriculum, showing the impact resources had on our staff.

MTCT have had two internal CPD days with Complete PE, with one focusing on PE delivery across all primary school year groups and another on Dance specific delivery. The benefit of the training days allowed our staff to link their prior knowledge into areas of the curriculum they haven’t delivered before. For many it was understanding how a PE lesson looked away from invasion games and delivering appropriate activities to various age groups.

We asked all staff members following the training days if they found them beneficial to their development of their primary PE knowledge with everyone saying it was either slightly beneficial or highly beneficial.

We asked all staff members following the training days if they found them beneficial to their development of their primary PE knowledge with everyone saying it was either slightly beneficial or high beneficial.

Since using Complete PE, we’ve seen the impact of the resources spill out into our partner schools. As part of our Premier League Primary Staff Programme, our qualified PE delivery staff are expected to support primary school teachers with delivering PE to help upskill them and increase their confidence.

We’ve been able to use the activity cards resources to help with lesson planning which has further supported our teachers understanding of what they are looking to achieve in their outcomes for their pupils in PE lessons.