Covid 19 has significantly impacted on the education sector and physical education has faced extra challenges due to the practical nature of the subject. This keynote will focus on the need to keep in mind the core principles of a high quality physical education curriculum and the avoidance of temporary quick fixes which may have negative consequences.

Kelly Hannagan will share her expertise and experiences in building and sustaining positive wellbeing cultures within education. Kelly will explore the key factors that impact depleting mental health and will provide you with skills to reflect and respond to build resilience through relationships in challenging times. You will gain the understanding of what wellbeing is and what it is not and look at the key trends of mental health needs within education. Learn effective strategies for a purposeful whole school intervention for wellbeing along with the tools to capture and empower staff, pupils, and their families for flourishing outcomes. Takeaway key ideas to collect stakeholder voices for wellbeing actions for change.

Research shows that young people who feel they don’t fit in, perhaps because they have a disability or come from a different background are among the least likely to benefit from the power of sport and physical activity. In this session you will find out about the National Inclusion landscape from YST Development Manager Naomi Bolton and hear about the role of Kent’s Lead Inclusion School, how you can get involved and come away with practical ideas to implement within your school.

Building upon the success of the Active Health Conferences, Take Pride CIC have developed a framework and strategy to embed Active Learning and Play across the whole curriculum. This session will introduce the Active Health Umbrella, a project that looks to increase pupil's personal development through a broader curriculum, that explores and encourages their own interests and talents. Increase pupil knowledge and ownership of how to keep physically and mentally healthy. While improving staff subject knowledge of the positive and negative influences of physical activity.

In this session you’ll hear about ways you can engage your whole school community in active travel from Caroline Hooper, Founder and Director of Activmob. Find out what Kent and Medway’s active travel agenda looks like, how you can get your school involved and take away ideas and resources that you can implement within your school.