Case Study: Spa Academy Askern

“At Spa Academy, we aim to ensure that our pupils are creative, honest, perseverant, respectful, and responsible team players that are equipped with the knowledge, skills and character to succeed. Everything we do is centred on the belief that better never stops”.

The Character Education and PE Lead at the school, who has worked with us in the past at his previous school, contacted us to purchase some of our experiential learning kit as he had seen the benefit of it in is previous school. The kit they purchased came with two days of CPD training in which 13 people took part. (10 teachers and 3 TAs).

The training not only teaches the participants on how to use the kit but also gives them the theory and models behind the activities that allows facilitators to bring out the best in the teams and groups they are working with.

During one of the sessions run after the training a teacher took a group of young people through an MTC Activity and had the following to say about it:

“I used the large play mats and did a challenge of them getting themselves across the lava – a game called Magic Pieces… this enabled me to facilitate the game, enable them to see that they could work as a team rather than against each other. We reflected at the end on what they’re going to change to make things better and they understood for themselves. Every child went home feeling successful, happy and friends again.”

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“I honestly thought that the training we had last week, over those first two days, was completely fantastic and outweighed many of the behaviour training sessions I have ever had during my career.  The way he talked to every one of us in that room was wonderful and inspired each and every one of us no matter what our backgrounds, current situations or learning styles.  Within our staff unit we have every ‘hat’ style and he was able to talk to us all as we needed to hear the message – just amazing.  I came out of the training so inspired and ready to go.” 

“I absolutely can see the benefits of all the training we had and I was very pleased today to have been able to put the ‘games’ to good use!  It was a great learning session coming out of disrespect, arguments and cattiness in the children.  I have seen some other situations around school today where these ‘games’ could have worked for people so please, please be confident to make good use of what we were taught as it really does work!!”