School Sport Coaching - Partnership Projects - South Norfolk SSP

School Sport Coaching

What is it?

The School Sport Coaching programme is one of 10 strandswhich make up the new PE and Sport Strategy for YoungPeople (PESSYP) which builds on the previous PE, SchoolSport and Club Links (PESSCL) Strategy.

Its aim is to increase the number of coaching hours delivered through school sport by 675,000 hours per year. This will beachieved through creating a step change in the recruitment,training and deployment of sports coaches working in school sport.

The focus of the School Sport Coaching programme

The coaches are expected to support participation in out-ofschool hours settings at a school site or appropriate facility.The aim of the coaching is to support participation of those young people into the fifth hour of participation per week.The coaching programme will also align where possible to national governing bodies (NGBs) coaching and competition programmes through joint planning and co-ordination at a local level.

What difference does it make?

The Youth Sport Trust have appointed Institute for Youth Sport to measure the impact of the programme. All coachinghours will be logged by the coaches via the online portal which can be accessed through the Youth Sport Trust’s home page It is envisaged that the programme will:

• Creat a step change in the quantity and quality of Coaching offered to young people through the coaching.

• Provide coaching within schools and therefore connect competition, leadership and volunteering and club links.

• Provide, enhance and strengthen pathways for young people

• Ensure coaches are deployed effectively, and developed and valued by trained ‘coach managers’.

• Maximise resources trough the creation of a culture of co-coaching and coach mentoring.

• Transform the coaching of children through the promotion of fundamental movement skills and fundamental sport skills by a multi-sport and multiskill approach.

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