E10 - How to: Set up Sport classes - overview

Modified on Thu, 14 Aug at 12:37 AM

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Preamble
Setup > Grid Structure
Setup > Year levels
Class data

Preamble

SPORT is handled differently by each school. Some schools may run a combined year level Sport one afternoon per week, whereas other schools may run Sport activities at an individual year level.

The main questions to consider are

Does SPORT occur at the same time on the same day for all/majority of students in the school?
Is the SPORT period considered to be a normal teaching period or an offline period?

Issues that may affect this are

the number of SPORT classes
how rolls are marked
whether staff are expected to supervise SPORT as part of their employment contract
whether senior (extension) classes are conducted at the same time as junior students go to SPORT.

Setup > Grid Structure

If the entire school is doing the same thing, or something similar together then that period should be coded as an off-grid (yellow) period, e.g. whole school Sport, whole school Assembly, Roll Call, DEAR and so on.

If years 7-10 do Sport, while years 11&12 do Extension classes or go home early, then set up those periods as Teaching (white) periods in Grid structure.

Setup > Year levels

If the sports classes are vertical, with students from different year levels attending the same sport activity, these classes can be created in a separate year level (SPT).

Define the new year level SPT in Setup > Year levels.

Class data

Create the classes in Classes > Class Data F6 for year level SPT.

Sport usually occurs every week for a double period and not every teacher supervises a sport activity. In a fortnightly cycle, those 4 periods of Sport may only count as 3 periods towards a teacher’s load, so define #Per = 4(3).

If the periods when Sport occurs are normal teaching periods on the grid, then each academic year level that does the sport must have a place holder class set up on a line (usually S for Sport) and have TeacherPref and RoomPref set to None. There will be no students in this place holder class, as they will be allocated to the classes in SPT year level. This place holder class ensures a correct year structure (CTRL-L).

If the periods when Sport occurs have been defined as (yellow) off-grid, there is no need for a place holder class in each academic year level.
In this case, the various sport classes in Year level SPT will also be off-grid, so #Per will be 0+4 or 0+4(3) etc.

Sport choices can be collected using Choice. See related documents.