These have included: Howzat! 2nd Innings for the England and Wales Cricket Board, Observing Children Moving and Observing and Analysing Learners’ Movement for the Association of Physical Education, Work Based Learning with the University of Worcester for the Learning and Teaching Support Network, and a range of Teacher Development Agency funded projects for Initial teacher training, led by academics at the Universities of Loughborough, Warwick and Worcester.
Coaching support packages have been created for the Rugby Football League, the English Basketball Association, the Rugby Football Union, the England and Wales Cricket Board, the Great Britain Olympic Ladies Hockey squad, the Football Association’s U20 squad, the Northampton Saints Premiership rugby squad, and for the Australian Football League (Aussie Rules) 2005 Champions, West Coast Eagles.
~~~2017~2018~~
Following investment into grass roots cricket, the ECB commissioned Tacklesport to develop a resource to assist with the teaching of cricket in schools. Working with Keith Pont and Pete Ackerly of the ECB Cricket Development Department Tacklesport wrote, designed and delivered the first National Curriculum 'teaching of games' multimedia CD-ROM, Howzat! 2nd Inninings.
Described on the BBC's Radio 5 programme as 'groundbreaking', and endorsed by the Minster of Sport "the DCMS welcomes the introduction of Howzat! and hopes that as a result children from all backgrounds will have an even greater opportunity to experience the joys of our National summer sport. " , Howzat! has been a tremendously successful in progressing the teaching of cricket in secondary schools, and support work in Initial Teacher Training. ~~~2017~2023~~
Having seen Tacklesport’s Interactive Training Diary (Fitness & Health for KS 3 & 4), Ray Unsworth, RFL Coach Education Program Manager, and Vinny Webb, RFL Coach Education Project Manager, quickly realised the potential for a resource to support coach education and development.
Working with them, Tacklesport designed and produced the RFL Coaching Diary, an interactive resource that allows RFL coaches at all levels to plan, review and reflect upon their progress, providing a detailed interactive record of relevant information.~~~2017~2022~~
Current All Black Coach Wayne Smith commissioned Tacklesport to create a resource to support his coaching when he was at Northampton saints. The mulitmedia package covered a range of key areas and was innovative in its approach to developing player knowledge and understanding.~~~2017~2219~~
A pedagogic research project on ‘Developing progress files for use in sports studies workplace learning’. The objectives of the project were to:
The University of Worcester project was the third in a series of Cross Regional projects that exemplified work undertaken to raise standards and support Initial Teacher Training. Working wilth project coordinators Mary Briggs, University of Warwick (Primary) and Bill Lowe and Dave Travers, University of Loughborough (Secondary), Tacklesport designed and developed 2 multimedia resources ("Working with ITT in the Early Years: Exploring Issues" and "Using some aspects of ICT to enhance the quality of ITT") to exemplify the work of the project groups~~~2017~2020~~
Following the success of Howzat! Tacklesport worked with Gordon Swinney of the ECB Coaches Association to create a multimedia mini-disc with abstracts from the 2003 Coaches Association Conference.~~~2017~2021~~
Head of Education at the University of Worcester, John Sears required a resource to exemplify the work of……(take from CD). Tacklesport visited several partner schools across the region, filming key staff. Edited clips were then combined with written material developed by the partners to create a multimedia resource (Raising Achievement through ITT) that was user friendly and delivered the required key messages.~~~2017~2030~~