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Introduction and Summary

How Does It Work

Cue Zone Into Schools is the World Professional Billiards and Snooker Associations (WPBSA) World Wide Grass Roots development programme; its main objective is to develop the game of snooker within schools using a concept known as Functional Snooker.

Once a school has chosen its route they will be visited by an experienced and qualified WPBSA World Snooker Coach who will undertake an induction on how to play and deliver Functional Snooker.

Functional Snooker has been recognised by OFSTED as a good practice in teaching English and Maths through sport. This concept removes traditional scoring, replacing it with numbered balls which retain their values, whilst others have symbols to indicate whether to multiply, subtract or use addition to calculate the value of the shot. Within the programme there is a facility for schools to develop their own Cue Zone, which contains six- foot snooker tables, which can be used as a teaching and learning resource or as an enrichment tool. Youngsters can train and achieve the Official WPBSA World Snooker Schools and Community Coaching Award which can be linked to the BTEC Sport Qualification, this will give young people the empowerment to develop their own facility within school. With each programme there is a scholarship for a teacher or a nominated person to take part in the two day WPBSA World Snooker Coach. Programme to become a qualified Snooker Coach, led by Six Times World Snooker Champion Steve Davis, 1979 World Snooker Champion and the sports Terry Griffiths and NLTG’s Chris Lovell who is responsible for the sports Grass Roots Development and Coaching Programmes and who developed the concept. The first phase of Cue Zone Into Schools was launched at the 2013 World Snooker Championship in Sheffield with twelve schools taking part across the UK, with many achieving nationally recognised qualifications using snooker.

Background Developed in 2008 by Chris Lovell and Steve Davis, and delivered in various formats, the concept has proved successful in developing community cohesion for young and old who are able bodied, disadvantaged or disabled. It also supports young people who have failed, or who are failing at school through attendance, low achievement with English and Maths or behavioural issues. The concept is adaptable and can be used for rapid response to support NEET or rapid response to hot spots in the community who suffer from poor or unacceptable anti social behaviour.

A place will be arranged on the coaching course for the nominated person, which will include full hotel accommodation and all course resources and the opportunity to achieve full WPBSA Coaching Status and attend seminars regularly throughout the year and take children to snooker events as rewards for their achievements. The school will receive the necessary support on an on‑going basis in order to develop its Cue Zone and using other options within the programme should it wish to do so. There are two starter programmes aimed at secondary and primary schools with the primary school option titled Steve’s Little Nuggets. These then can lead to a more intensive programme leading up to a Steve Davis Day, or the Steve Davis Day can be used in isolation. Typically the Steve Davis Day programme, would consist of the set up and induction of the schools Cue Zone and a planned number of sessions delivered by the WPBSA World Snooker Coach, together with the planning of the Steve Davis Day which lasts up to six hours and can accommodate 32 to 64 children, either at the beginning, middle or the end of the project. During the Steve Davis Day delivery is all about fun. Each frame of snooker lasts 15 minutes and is called 15/15 snooker. All the players break off together but only after shaking hands and wishing each other luck. At the end of fifteen minutes, the player who is in the lead is the winner, promoting sportsmanship again by shaking hands and the loser resets the table. The winner progresses to the next round, whilst the runner up has a choice to take part in another on table activity called the 60 second challenge or 3 off the table activities supporting fun or English and maths activities.

Jason Ferguson, Chairman of the WPBSA says:

The future of any sport “ relies on participation.

Cue Zone into Schools is providing education and community benefit and we are very proud to see so many young people engaged with our sport.

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functional snooker the fun way to learn English and maths

How to play Functional Snooker Functional Snooker has been developed to support the teaching and learning of English and maths from aged 7 and upwards. At Key Stages 2 and 3 it is aimed at supporting the achievement of English and Maths at Entry Levels 2 and 3 and level 1 and in particular older children who have failed to achieve in line with their age. The concept is very much based on embedded learning and the game is the starting point for schools to develop their own specific teaching and learning resources once children are showing the desire to learn English and Maths. Numbered balls retain their values whilst others have symbols to indicate whether to multiply, subtract or use addition to calculate the value of the shot.

Steve Davis’ Little Nuggets Primary School programme Aimed at primary schools wanting to offer an additional experience for children to learn English and Maths whilst ensuring they take part in a fun and stimulating activity. Functional Snooker is used as the scoring method of the game and this is specifically aimed at Key Stage 2 and supporting the achievement of English and Maths as Entry Level 2 and 3.

Each primary school receives 2 x 6ft tables supported by a induction visit by a qualified WPBSA World Snooker Coach complete with extensive resources to deliver the programme. A scholarship is provided for a school representative to attend the WPBSA World Snooker Coach Course delivered by Steve Davis and Terry Griffiths. Scholarships are also available for other school representative such as teaching assistants or helpers to achieve the WPBSA World Snooker Community and Schools Coaching Award. Should schools wish to only deliver Functional Snooker this option is available.

« Quotes from the Schools and Children...»

Chris Lovell, Jason Ferguson and Steve Davis pictured with children from Sheffield Park Academy.

Sheffield Park Academy

« Since it’s launch we introduced ‘Functional

Snooker’ into the PE curriculum and set up a lunchtime and an after school clubs. Since then 5 other members of staff have taught FS within the PE curriculum and we now have a bespoke ‘Cue-Zone’ room enabling us to offer clubs every lunchtime, after school, and twice a week as a breakfast club. In Feb 2014 we produced an ‘impact report’ which demonstrated how the students involved, and the school as a whole had benefitted on our journey so far. Some of the main findings included:

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15 of our worst attenders/latecomers regularly attend a breakfast club an hour before students are expected at school

60 students per week attend lunchtime enrichment sessions, with a further 60 after school – these sessions are massively oversubscribed

16 girls regularly attend enrichment sessions 88% of students claim that the PE curriculum is better balanced with the inclusion of Functional Snooker Participants show improved behaviour around school and there are less reported incidents at lunchtime when sessions are held 97% maintain that they enjoyed Functional Snooker Snooker is being taught as part of the practical unit to Y10 Btec Sport Level 2 students 5 Primary schools and 150 students have signed up to the programme

The impact is already there to be seen. Moreover, students are learning new physical and cognitive skills and having fun whilst they learn. We feel that we are educating the next generation of players, officials, spectators and fans of this historic sport.

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Chris Motley - Head of Lower School, Sheffield Park Academy

What the Children say! “It’s great that we can do FS in our PE lessons; it’s a totally new sport and a lot of fun. I wouldn’t have ever tried it otherwise” “I have been coming to lunch club at Cue-Zone since January and I have improved my skills so much. I like the challenge of having to think where I need to put the cue ball for my next shot to score the most points” “I’m not very good but I like refereeing the games and doing the maths” “I am looking forward to the student v Teacher competition coming up soon. Even if I get beaten it will be good fun” “I have helped with coaching some Year 7 students and want to become a ‘Snooker Ambassador’ at Sheffield Park Academy”

Watch the BBC documentary Cue Zone into Schools at http://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=C9ZkHQfqUUE

Ormesby School -

“The Cue Zone is great because we work on our maths as well as learning how to play snooker.”

Middlesbrough

Jack Knights (Year 9), Ormesby School

« ‘Cue Zone Into Schools’ was introduced to school

formally with a high profile day supported by Steve Davis & Chris Lovell. Since then we have dedicated a room for use and have seen multiplicative thinking, social and problem solving skills develop in a fun to learn way, adding a dimension of joy for students.

“I really enjoy doing the snooker in school as it is fun and a different way of learning. I would really recommend this for other schools.”

Brittney Taylor (Year 9), Ormesby School

A project that began life in our school with an enthusiastic lead from a snooker playing member of staff has become a must use facility for a number of linked faculties. Student usage ranges from Year 11 A* maths students to Year 7 special educational needs. To each according to their need and from each according to their ability! Multiplicative numeracy and reasoning skills are doing a 147!

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Steve Burrows - Head Teacher

Highfields School Wolverhampton

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The school has been running cue zone into school with some fantastic results. With the help of professional coach, Andrew Highfield. The pupils have incorporated Maths into the game through functional snooker, as well as learning the basic skills that are essential for success within the game. Highfields were also lucky enough to host the ‘Steve Davis day’ which included over 64 pupils from all school years competing against each other to win fantastic prizes. Overall this grassroots project is proving a great success within Highfields as our weekly participation figures are now well above 50, with a large number of these pupils going on to play snooker in their own time outside school.

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“I’m part of our school snooker club and cannot wait for lunchtimes so I can play snooker. I play against my friends and get coaching from Andy on a Tuesday after school. I have also started playing on a full size table outside school to practice as well as watching the big tournaments on T.V. The functional snooker is also really helping with my Maths as I’m doing it through something I really enjoy.”

Harjinder Basra (Year 8), Highfields School

Moseley Park School

« Moseley Park’s Cue Zone Into School has been

hugely successful, with pupils regularly staying after school to develop their skills. A number of players, who have never played the game before, have now joined the local snooker club. Functional snooker has been utilised on a number of occasions to engage pupils within curriculum maths lessons, giving the pupils the opportunity to have a new, enjoyable way of developing their numeracy skills.

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Chris Edwards - Moseley Park School

Hockerill Anglo - European College

« Cue Zone has allowed lots of students in Hockerill

to engage in the sport. The tables have attracted lots of students who aren’t passionate about traditional sports. The tables are frequently used in Boarding Houses at the College and very popular extra-curricular clubs are run during lunch times. Cue Zone has ensured that students who would never have normally been able to access Snooker have had the opportunity and it has had some incredibly powerful impacts upon certain students engagement in Physical Education and attendance of our extra-curricular clubs.

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Passmores Academy “Functional snooker is really good because you are having fun while improving my mathematical skills”

Emily Obasohan, Passmores Academy

“I feel functional snooker has improved my maths skills and shows me that I can have fun with my friends at the same time” Sydnee Hannam, Passmores Academy

“I enjoy functional snooker because it puts maths and English into a sport. This allows me to have fun while learning”

Adam Barnes, Passmores Academy

« What are we constantly looking for in schools?

To engage the disengaged, to enthuse the unenthusiastic and to improve all of us. We have been able to achieve these things with significant numbers of our young people thanks to our partnership with the WPBSA and functional snooker.

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Steve Davis pictured performing a trick shot.

Vic Goddard - Principal of Passmores Academy

Resources Each route comes with a start-up containing a minimum of 6 snooker cues and cases, 12 medals, A5 certificates to celebrate competition winners together with other areas of recognition such as the start of the session or sports person of the session. Also included are draw sheets to organise events together with clip board and pen. All the resources come on a memory stick to enable reproduction within school.

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Full resources to deliver the programme Coaching Scholarship for a nominated person on the 2 day coaching course with Terry Griffiths and Steve Davis

Development day for staff to learn how to deliver the programme

Each school will receive the opportunity to visit Cue Zone at each of the televised snooker events and the opportunity to enter the National Cue Zone Into Schools Functional Snooker competition COST

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or for further help or advice please contact Lisa Bray at the WPBSA Office on 0117 317 8200 or [email protected] or visit the World Snooker Website www.worldsnooker.com and click Cue Zone Into Schools or www.wpbsa.com

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Please send your completed order with the required payment to: Lisa Bray c/o WPBSA 75 Whiteladies Road Clifton Bristol BS8 2NT Tel: 0117 317 8200 Or pay via Bank Transfer, please email this purchase order to: [email protected]

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6ft Tables Including Functional Snooker Balls Induction from a WPBSA World Snooker Coach Full resources to deliver the programme Coaching Scholarship for a nominated person on the 2 day coaching course with Terry Griffiths and Steve Davis

Development day for staff to learn how to deliver the programme

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Signed: ______________________________________________________________ Date: ___________________________________________________________________ Once payment has been received your order will be acknowledged within 48 hours by email/phone together with confirmation of your visit by your WPBSA World Snooker Coach for your induction visit together to arrange your delivery date for your tables. Many thanks for your order.

Lisa Bray (On behalf of the WPBSA)