About Simon ..

I am a Physical Education teacher and until September 2009, spent four very successful years at the Notre Dame High School in Sheffield, latterly as a Curriculum Innovator, gaining the responsibility of increasing the use of ICT within my subject area.

For Teachnet last year, I set myself a challenge to create a set of video assessments to help aid internal GCSE practical assessments. The reason I chose this as a focus area was that I felt that there were a number of pupils who were underperforming when completing written assessments on the GCSE section of the AQA course which tests a pupil’s ability to critically analyse and evaluate sporting performances. I came to the conclusion that a great deal of these underperforming pupils were doing so because they were visual learners and found it difficult to visualise the sporting scenarios being described through an internal written exam. With the help of my department, I went about creating four sets of video assessment projects, a set each for Trampolining, Tennis, Football and Netball.

In September 2009 I moved with my partner and young baby to Thailand.