A brilliant approach to PE for online schools
Many virtual or online schools struggle to deliver a meaningful, learning-focused physical education curriculum. Indeed, many simply do not include it. You will be familiar with the challenges that this subject area presents.
If you are interested in a contemporary and inclusive approach to high quality physical education for your school, we invite you to read on. We have developed a package like no other that will support your learners, inform their families and allow you to position your school as offering a truly outstanding, holistic curriculum
Our Objective
To help every student develop a positive relationship with physical activity.
What does this look like?
Strong evidence to indicate that your school’s students are enjoying ongoing and rewarding physical activity experiences.
Young people leading active lives is too important to be a mere aspiration
How do we achieve this?
As expert and experienced educators, we believe positive behaviours are a result of powerful learning. We have devised a unique curriculum to sit alongside our technology to ensure your students meet the goals outlined above.e possible.
Our guiding principles
The miMove approach is very different from traditional PE in which the teacher decides what is learnt and how. This means that certain ways of moving e.g. team games are given higher status and greater value than other ways of moving. This has far-reaching implications in defining who is successful. Our approach values all forms of intentional movement. It is therefore hierarchically flat and not reliant upon competitive performance levels. If students are at your school to support a high performance sports programme, then, of course, that’s fine but so is the student who enjoys walking with their grandparents or doing yoga with their mum or dancing on their own or going to the local skatepark.
We view the activities as merely the starting point and the vehicles for learning (see curriculum outline below).
“What’s your move? This is miMove”
As the name miMove suggests, autonomy is a core pillar of our programme. We incorporate and apply Deci and Ryan’s Theory of Self Determination to support students on their progressive journey toward self actualisation in and through movement. They will learn to understand where their motivation comes from and how to achieve their movement goals.
The miMove Platform
miMove’s mission is to embrace technology to support the long standing, universal goal of physical education - to ensure every student develops a positive relationship with physical activity.
miMove is the world’s only purpose built digital platform that starts with the young person. Our platform gives each student their own spotlight and megaphone allowing them to be seen and heard, supported and celebrated. When students sign into their miMove account they easily record their physical activity experiences - what, where, how long for, who with and most importantly, how the activity felt. They are able to reflect and store videos and photos that have meaning to them. This information is shared only with the school. Students can not communicate with each other. Here's a short video showing you how it works.
By engaging with miMove, students are sharing their activity data with those who care - physical education professionals who can then use this insight data to make better professional decisions, chart and evidence programme impact in ways that have never previously been possible.
Having launched just before the world went into lockdown in 2020, the platform was inadvertently and successfully tested in lots of schools that overnight had to embrace virtual learning.
Curriculum content
The curriculum structure would be such that students record their activities on miMove each week. The online lessons can be synchronous or asynchronous. Synchronous lessons obviously allow for more personalised and in depth learning conversation. These can be delivered by school staff or miMove’s subject experts. Please see the packages below to see the range of options available.
Students use their miMove data to reflect on their experiences and support their learning.
Our progressive curriculum caters for KS2 through to KS5 and is divided into modules that can be divided into 3 key domains, physical, cognitive and affective. These combine to form a holistic approach to knowledge acquisition and enhancing understanding so that students can make sense of their active worlds. Here are some sample modules from each domain.
Physical
- Learning new skills
- Developing fitness
- Activity specific projects
Cognitive
- Personal organisation
- Understanding motivation
- Setting and meeting targets
- Exploring barriers
Affective
- Finding meaning
- Joy, Fun & Delight
- When it’s difficult
Pricing
Chose from a range of flexible packages
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All students have miMove accounts |
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All teachers have access to miMove |
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Comprehensive support package |
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Access to community of practice with other similar schools |
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Regular activity reports for the school |
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Access to the miMove curriculum resources |
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Access to asynchronous lessons |
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Regular live lessons
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