AS level PE

1. School Club Links
AS level – Miss Manley

2. Lesson Objectives
LO1: To understand the effects of developing school-club
links.
LO2: To understand initiatives including the PESSYP, School
Sports Coordinator, Sports Colleges, Active Sports, Sports
Leaders UK, the TOPS programme, Whole Sport plans
designed to encourage the development of school-club
links and explain the potential benefits to the government
(individuals or community)
LO3: To understand the role of national governing bodies,
Sport England and Youth Sports Trust in increasing
participation.

3. Social Inclusion
SOCIAL EXCLUSION - results from a combination of:
Unemployment
Poor skills
Low incomes
Poor housing
Crime
Bad health
Family breakdown
SOCIAL INCLUSION –
the prevention of the limiting of people’s and area’s
opportunities through not being in a similar status to
the dominant social grouping in a society (p.174)
Heart of governments policy on sport development
and physical activity.

4. Game Plan
A strategy for delivering the Governments Sport and Physical
Activity Objectives
Two main objectives:
Increase participation = health benefits = reduce costs of
inactivity
Improve national success in competition for “feel good
factor” of public
Four recommendations to achieve this:
Grass Roots participation
High Performance Sport
Mega Sporting Events
Delivery

5. Game Plan
A strategy for delivering the Governments Sport and Physical
Activity Objectives
Grass-roots participation:
Focus on disadvantaged groups; women, young, old. Barriers of
groups need to be addressed; time, info, motivation, facilities,
coaches, etc.
High Performance Sport:
Prioritise funding for sport at highest level with better elite
development
Mega sporting events:
Cautious approach to hosting – clear assessment of benefits to
cost
Delivery:
Reform and deciding what works before funding increases.
Public, private and voluntary to work closer together

6. What is a School Club Link?
A partnership between a school and a community
sports club that meets the aims of both parties
Helping young people from sport in school to sport in
clubs and the wider community.
School Club links is one of the key strands to the
Government PESSYP strategy
A good school club link will increase participation in
sport for children and young people and count
towards the 5 hour offer

7. What is PESSYP Strategy?
Physical Education and Sport Strategy for Young
People – Launched in 2003
Used to be known as PESSCL (PE, School Sport & Club
Links)
Government Strategy for increasing participation and
opportunities in sport for children and young people
Aimed at promoting the delivery of high quality PE &
school sport.
Links School PE and Community Sport to ensure all
children and young people have access to the 5 hour
offer

8. Delivery of PESSYP
Delivered through 8 different strands:
Professional Development
QCA & School Sport Investigation
Gifted & Talented
Step into Sport
Swimming
Club Links
Sports Colleges
School Sport Partnerships

9. Professional Development
£18m programme, enabling schools to draw from a range of free
resources such as videos, workshops, mentoring and training
programmes
QCA & School Sport Investigation
QCA is working with schools to identify & promote best practice. An
increase in results, attendance & progress in PE has been noted.
Gifted & Talented
Aimed at recognising & developing young people with sporting
talent. Junior Athlete Education (JAE) programme set up to support
young athletes. Sports Colleges involved in staging Academies to
improve fundamental skills of talented 9-12 year olds
Step into Sport
Aimed at getting young people involved in leadership &
volunteering roles in sport. The programme liaises with LEA’s,
NGB’s and sports partnerships.

10. Swimming
Aimed at promoting and improving the delivery of swimming in
schools. The scheme provides to LEA’s on how to deliver swimming
lessons effectively and how to get more children involved.
Club Links
By 2006, the government hopes to have 20% of 5-16 year olds
involved in club sport on a regular basis. Links between schools &
clubs are being fostered in order to promote this scheme.
Sports Colleges
Schools which will receive increased funding for improving facilities
& provision of high quality sports to children. These schools will act
as symbols of sporting excellence, as well as act as much needed
community facilities.
School Sport Partnerships
Families of schools which will receive extra funding to improve and
increase sports opportunities for all.

11. 5 Hour Offer
In 2007 he Government announced its intention to
give every child the opportunity to participate in five
hours of sport every week.
2 hours of high quality PE each week within the
school day for all 5 – 16 year olds
An additional 3 hours of sporting activity each
week for all 5 - 16 year olds and the creation of
new opportunities for all 16 - 19 year olds to
participate in 3 hours sport each week, delivered
by a range of school, community and club
providers beyond the school day.

12. Sport Colleges
Is a maintained Secondary school (in England) which
receives additional funding from DfES to raise standards
in PE and Sport within its own school, in a local family of
schools and in the wider community (p.175).
This programme was set up in 1997 by the Youth Sports
Trust and aims to encourage schools to specialise in highquality P.E. and school sport.
Can you think of any local Examples?
Great Torrington School

13. Benefits of Sports Colleges

14. School Sports Co-ordinators (SSCos)
The Partnership Development Manager (PDM) is usually an
experienced teacher within the Sports College, they work
with SSCos to coordinate and drive development of PE and
sport within the connected secondary school and an
associated family of primary schools.
It is their job to co-ordinate sporting activities both inside
and outside of school hours across a ‘family’ of schools.
The teacher is taken off timetable for few days a week to
liaise with partner schools and ensure delivery of quality PE
across key stages 2 to 3 (Target 2 hours per week).
Develop community links
In 2007 renamed School Sports Partnership

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Primary Link
Teacher (in a
primary school)

16. Active Sports (Set up in 1999)
It’s objectives include:
A nationwide sports programme with all relevant agencies
working through effective partnerships.
Wider access to sport for all.
Improved retention in organised sport by young people.
Improved performance and talent selection processes.
The Programme is delivered locally through partnerships
covering the whole of England.
Each partnership employs core staff to liaise with local
partners (e.g. local education authorities, NGBs, funding
agencies).
The NGBs for each of the ten sports in the Programme
developed frameworks for the development of their
sports through which they engage with the partnerships.

17. Sports Leaders UK
Aim to increase and improve the level of coaching in
the UK.
Works with Sports Councils across the country, NGBS,
schools, FE & HE institutions, Awarding Bodies and
many more.
Provides a central resource of strategic & technical
expertise, advice & support.
Works with funding agencies to integrate coaching
development into local authorities and sports
agencies.
4 qualifications: JSLA, CSLA, HSLA, BELA (page 180)

18. NGB (p.181)
National Governing Bodies
Each sport has its own NGB which co-ordinates rules,
competitions and officials.
NGB’s must generate their own funding through advertising,
sponsorship, affiliation fees, donations and home county
sports councils (Sport England etc).
NGB’s are also responsible for developing and promoting their
sport at local and elite levels.
This done via increased access, improved coaching and
enhanced facilities.
Some NGB’s also run taster days to try and encourage people
to get involved in their sport.

19. Whole Sport Plans (WSP’s)
Are produced by each NGB from grass-roots to elite
level identifying how they will achieve their aims for
the next 5 years and contribute to Sport England
Start, Stay and Succeed scheme.
Aim to develop sports through an organised and
structured approach.
Measures within the WSP’s include participation,
volunteers, coaches and elite performance.
Used by Sport England as a way of providing
resources to NGB’s

20. TOP Programme
The TOP Programme aims to provide opportunities
for children to experience a greater range of physical
activities through providing sport specific equipment
designed for a specific age group.
Divided into age groups:
TOP Sportsability (is for disabled people)
TOP Link (14 – 16 years)
TOP Sport (7 – 11 years)
TOP Play (4 – 9 years)
TOP Start (3 – 5 years)
TOP Tots (18 months-3 years)

21. National Agencies
Sport England
Increasing participation in community sports
Youth Sports Trust
Mainly concerned with sport in Schools
UK Sport
Focused on elite sport and performance pathways

22. Youth Sports Trust
Independent Charity, established in 1994
Aim is to promote participation
Provides equipment, resources and programmes to
create a sporting pathway for all young people.
Increase the provision of sporting opportunities
during extra-curricular time and enhancing schoolclub links.
Works in partnership with numerous agencies
including NGB’s, Sport England and The National
Council of School Sport.

23. Sport England
Sport England was rebranded in 1999.
Aim is to increase and sustain participation in community
sport to create an active nation.
Advertising, investing and promoting community sport.
The Delivery system connects those involved with sport at
national, regional, sub-regional and local levels.
Supports and funds NGBs
Also acts as a distributor of Lottery & Exchequer funds to
sport.
Sport England has invested over £2bn into sports in
England since 1994.
Delivery of a lasting London 2012 Sporting Legacy.