PESSYP Strands explained
Club Links
The Club Links work strand will create and develop links between schools and community sports clubs to support an increase in the number of children aged 5-16 years old who are participating in community sports clubs.
The overall outcome of Club Links work strand will be to increase the number of young people in School Sport Partnerships involved in community-based sport.
The Club Links work strand 2008-11 will be delivered by Sport England in close partnership with the Youth Sport Trust, National Governing Bodies and the Child Protection in Sport Unit. It will continue to:
· Create high quality sports club opportunities for young people that are welcoming, safe, high quality and child friendly
· Create high quality environments which encourage participation of children and young people
· Offer activity programmes which include provision for talent development, incorporating the principles of the Long Term Athlete Development model
· Provide access to activity programmes to all sections of the community
· Recruit and develop coaches and volunteers (including young people) to provide the best possible activity programmes
School Sport Coaches
This programme is designed to create a step-change in the quantity and quality of coaching offered to young people in sport. It will drive up standards of coaching children and make a positive contribution to the Five Hour Offer. It will offer TOP-UP coaching grants to all SSPs to enable them to build on local relationships and coaching programmes.
Competition Managers
The Competition Manager infrastructure is currently being implemented, within school sport partnerships, across the 49 county areas in England and by January 2009 every county area will have a team of competition managers in place. Competition managers are an integral part of the network in raising the quality and quantity of competitive opportunities for all young people in line with the national governing bodies’ competition frameworks. The competition managers are working closely with national governing bodies to ensure the alignment of the network and the priorities identified within each sport, in order to increase the number of young people engaged in regular competitive opportunities.
National School Sport Week
National School Sport Week, supported by Norwich Union, was launched by the Prime Minister and Dame Kelly Holmes at the Sports Colleges Conference on 1st February. The purpose of National School Sport Week is to:
- Celebrate –all that been achieved in PE and School Sport over the last year. This includes Young Peoples participation, Young Peoples achievements and talent in PE & Sport and the contribution made by young leaders and volunteers and all those enabling Young People to achieve their potential
- Launch- new initiatives and developments in PE and School Sport. This summer we will see the launch of new impetus and innovative developments in Intra School Competition
- Profile- all the amazing things that are happening in PE and School Sport nationally and encourage all school to raise the profile of PE & School Sport at a local level.
The activities taking place in Schools throughout National Schools Sport week are:
- Festivals of Sport – organised and led by young leaders for primary aged young people
- Intra school competition – led by School Sport Coordinators and supported by young leaders
- Inter school competition – led and organised by existing Competition Managers
- Local activity – innovative and creative ideas organised at a local level
NSSW for 2009 will be held during the week commencing Monday 29th June
Intra-school Competition
National School Sport Week 2008 saw the launch of a new resource to support schools in establishing vibrant and modern intra-school competition programmes. The vision is that intra-school competition will focus on engagement and enjoyment by all through a social or recreational experience and embraces the needs of local young people aged 11-16.
National School Sport Week saw the launch of the first year sports who have been working together to develop traditional, modified and alternative formats that will be both appropriate and appealing. More sports will be added over the coming 2 years to ensure that a wide ranging and flexible programme of intra-school competition can be provided for all young people, regardless of ability to experience positive competition, with a minimum of 25% taking part regularly* over the course of the school year
Working in partnership with National Governing Bodies and School Sport Partnerships, a resource will be distributed to all School Sport Coordinator’s (SSCO’s) from September 2008 to support you in the development and implementation of high quality, regular intra-school competition. The challenge the thinking around targeting the middle 50% band to access intra-school competition as a mechanism to increase participation from 3 to 5 hours.
Continuous Professional Development
National CPD Programme
The programme aims to support the implementation of the high level targets within the overall PE, Sport Strategy, and Young People strategy outlined by the DCSF. The programme is designed to provide a tool for the Local Authority and PESSYP infrastructure of Specialist Sports Colleges and School Sports Partnerships to meet their aims in delivering the five hour offer.
The Consortium Management group has gained a 12 month extension to this area of work, taking it through to March 2009. Local Delivery Agencies (LDAs) have submitted delivery plans based on current perceived need around the three national priorities; KS1, KS4 and NQTs
Over the coming, and subsequent terms, LDAs will be focusing their attention on meeting the professional development of teachers and others in School Sports Partnerships. SSPs have a crucial role in identifying these needs and ensuring a cohesive, strategic approach to professional development.
Disability
Disability Pathways
(Inc. MSC, Multi Sport Disability Clubs, Identifying Ability Days and Competition)
The aim of the programme is to establish a network of 450 Multi-Sport Disability Clubs across SSPs. These clubs will offer a club sport experience to all young disabled pupils who are not able or do not wish to access inclusive provision. The programme will also connect four interventions which collectively aim to support the achievement of the 5 Hour Offer for young disabled people and ensure that those with a higher level of ability are identified and able to access a talent pathway. The four interventions are as follows:
- Access to the Identifying Ability CPD course delivered through LDAs
- Multi-Skill Inclusion training to support the provision of fully inclusive Multi-Skills Clubs which offer competitive opportunities to those who want them.
- Training, resources and funding to support the establishment of a pan-disability Multi- Sport Disability Club
- Resources and funding to support the delivery of Ability Identification Days which promote the identification of talented young disabled people and their signposting on to County Assessment Centres delivered by CSPs
The programme will be rolled out in phases with partnerships being identified through “readiness factors”. By 2011, it is hoped that there will be a national network of Multi-Sport Disability Clubs.
Sports Unlimited - Extending Activities Work
Programme update
The Sports Unlimited work strand will provide a range of attractive and sustainable opportunities in sporting activities for Young People from the ‘semi sporty population segment’ to take part in during term time. The work strand will implement precise plans targeting Young People that are generated by County Sports Partnerships (CSPs) working at a local level in partnership with School Sport Partnerships (SSPs).
Plans will target Young People from across the segment and will include providing activities in areas of deprivation. The intention of the work strand is to link with partners from the wider ‘Young People agenda’ where effective partnership working will be important to help target and deliver in these areas.
CSPs are accountable for the delivery of the work strand. Their major role will be to undertake a planning and implementation process that will lead to ‘joined up’ and integrated delivery for Young People across both sporting and wider ‘positive activities’ agendas. A critical role for CSPs will be to identify providers (including clubs) that offer high quality and sustainable activities for young people. There will be an emphasis on ensuring coaches selected by providers offer high quality and compelling activities to young people.
The work strand will aim to get 900,000 Children and Young People taking part in attractive and sustainable sporting activities over the delivery period 2008 to 2011.
Communication between SSPs and CSPs will be vital in ensuring that plans for the Extending Activities Work strand are Children and Young People focused – i.e.providingaffordable, accessible, appropriate and attractiveactivities.
Plans will be very precise targeting identified groups of Young People following collaboration between the CSP, the SSP and other partners.
In particular, intelligence provided by the ‘Partnership Evaluation and Priorities Documents’ generated by SSPs will be crucial in ensuring plans have Young People at their heart, are high quality and effective. This intelligence will enable plans to target specific young people by gender, attitude to sport and age enabling plans to be very local and very precise.
Gifted and talented
Identifying and supporting those who are gifted in PE and/or sport to develop fully and enabling those with talent to progress and balancing both their education and sporting careers. This links in to the work of the National Talent Orientation Camp .
Infrastructure
School Sport Partnerships
Under the new PESSYP strategy, School Sport Partnershipswill remain the key driver for young people’s high quality sports opportunities within and beyond the curriculum. SSPs will retain a responsibility for increasing participation opportunities, supporting the development and delivery of high quality physical education and school sport, but will also become much more outward looking, to ensure that appropriate pathways exist, or are being developed, for young people to access high quality sporting opportunities beyond the school gates. This will need to be done alongside many community partners, including local authority services, county sports partnerships, voluntary agencies and national governing bodies.
Further Education Sport Co-ordinators (FESCo)
Since September there are 377 FESCos working in their respective FE Colleges that are now part of the SSP infrastructure. Their initial roles and responsibilities are to increase the opportunities and the number of 16-19 years olds in their own FE College participating in sport, competing in sport and leading and volunteering in sport.
East Bromley SSP have a FESCo based at Orpington College and the West Bromley SSP FESCo is based at Bromley FE College.
County Sports Partnerships
CSPs will play an enhanced role in the delivery of the 5 hour offer. CSPs will lead the delivery of the Extending Activities work strand in addition to their current role within the Step into Sport work strand.
National Governing Bodies
NGBs will continue to play a key role in supporting the delivery of many work strands including Club Links, Step into Sport, Competition managers etc.
Leadership and Volunteering
Step into Sport - A Direction for the Future (Step ON, Step IN, Step UP)
Programme Update
The purpose of the Step into Sport programme is to increase the quantity, quality and diversity of young people engaged in volunteering and leadership, with consequent benefits to schools, clubs, the community and the young people themselves. In essence the Step into Sport programme is a tool which enables schools to grow young people as leaders and deploy them as active volunteers both within the school and community settings.
Step into Sport has been delivered by School Sport Partnerships and County Sports Partnerships for the past five years with some excellent results but it is time for us to now move the programme on to another level.
The Youth Sport Trust and Sport England have worked with a number of partner agencies to develop a delivery model for Step into Sport 08-11 that will create the following outcomes;
• A pathway of leadership and volunteering from KS3 – KS5 (aged 11-19) that starts with an introduction to Leadership roles through the PE Curriculum using Sport Education through to School-Based Volunteering and ultimately young people as Community Volunteers.
• A menu of National Governing Body sports specific qualifications and generic leadership qualifications that are aligned to developments in the 14-19 curriculum, including the emerging ‘Sports Diploma’.
• Effective support for young people at a local level (SSP) through the provision of Leadership Academies that will enable them to become effective school-based and community-based volunteers.
• Clear pathways that allow young people to move through from generic leadership roles into specific volunteering roles such as Coaching, Officiating, Event Volunteering, Team Manager/Sports Administration and roles within IT/Media.
• A community pathway alongside the route way developed through education, that is in place to support young people as leaders and volunteers who are volunteering within a club setting
Swimming
A national scheme targeting those 10-11 year olds who have not yet achieved the National Curriculum swimming requirements for the end of key stage 2 and bringing them up to that standard.
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