Mr David Fenn

Specialisms	PE English

As PE Co-ordinator at RAF Leeming Community Primary for the last 8 years, Dave has been able to use his passion for PE and outdoor education to support his successful leadership of sport and healthy lifestyles within his school.  Recognised by the award of the AFPE Quality Mark, which has been upheld over the last 5 years.  Dave has led successful CPD within his school, leading to ‘a skills based’ PE curriculum becoming well established.  Dave’s passion to nurture engagement in pupils who are less excited with PE, coupled with his awareness of ways of progressing more able children, has led to a real enthusiasm and excitement in school.  Dave believes sport and knowledge of a healthy lifestyle is as important as the core curriculum subjects and is keen to help schools to realise this in his role as PE CST.

In his role as PE Network Facilitator with the Swaledale Alliance over the last 3 years, Dave has led termly networks where PE leads from the area are able to share good practice, debate current focus areas in PE and partake in CPD delivered by experts from the Youth Sport Trust and North Yorkshire Sport.

Alongside his passion for PE, Dave has successfully led English at RAF Leeming over the last three years. Creating a strong Reading for Pleasure ethos within his setting has been a real strength, leading to recognition from the Open University educational research group. Alongside this, Dave has spent much time developing the use of Whole Class Marking to improve feedback and assessment outcomes throughout the school. Dave’s passion to create an English curriculum centred around books, driven by audience and purpose for writing and embedded in children’s own interests has enabled him to collaboratively redesign the approach towards writing progression within his setting. Working closely with other English leads, he has shared his experiences of these areas and his practice with colleagues across the local area. He enjoys mentoring as much as learning from the teachers he works with and is keen to support teachers in the Swaledale Alliance to further improve provision within their schools.