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Wickersley School Sports Partnership - Thrybergh Cluster
Background Information
The National Strategy for PE, School Sport and Club Links (PESSCL)
The national PE, School Sport and Club Links strategy was launched by the Prime Minister in October 2002. It went live in April 2003. The Government is investing £978m between 2003-04 and 2007-08 to deliver the strategy. In addition, £686m lottery funding is enhancing school sports facilities. That means that in total over £1.5 billion is being invested in physical education and school sport in the five years up to 2008.
The Department for Education and Skills and the Department for Culture, Media and Sport have come together to jointly lead the strategy. Its overall objective — a public service agreement target shared by the two Departments — is to enhance the take-up of sporting opportunities by 5 to 16 year-olds. The ambitious target is to increase the percentage of school children who spend a minimum of two hours a week on high-quality PE and school sport within and beyond the curriculum to 75 per cent by 2006 and 85 per cent by 2008.
The 2006 target has already been beaten. The 2005/06 school sport survey found that 80 per cent of pupils in the 16,800 schools taking part in the survey were spending at least 2 hours in a typical week on high-quality PE and school sport.
The long-term ambition, by 2010, is to offer all children at least four hours of sport every week, made up of:
at least two hours of high-quality PE and sport at schools — with the expectation that this will be delivered totally within the curriculum; and
an additional two or more hours beyond the school day delivered by a range of school, community and club providers.
The national strategy is being delivered through nine interlinked workstrands. The first two
• Sports Colleges
• School Sport Partnerships
have created a national PE and school sports infrastructure by establishing a network of 450 school sport partnerships (families of schools which work together). There are now also 402 sports colleges. |
The remaining seven workstrands
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are the tools the schools and partnerships draw on to enable children to take up their two-hour entitlement and move towards the 2010 ambition.
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Specialist Sports Colleges and School Sport Partnerships
Specialist Sports Colleges are at the hub of the Government’s strategy to enhance young people’s opportunities to participate in a wide range of sports as well as raising the standards of teaching and learning of PE and school sport.
Specialist Sports Colleges position PE and sport at the centre of the curriculum, using it as a vehicle to develop and improve learning opportunities for all.
School Sport Partnerships (SSPs) are groups of schools working together to develop PE and sport opportunities for all young people.
A typical partnership consists of:
• A partnership development manager (PDM)
• Up to eight school sport co-coordinators (SSCo’s)
• 45 primary and special school link teachers (PLTs)
A PDM is a full-time role usually based within a Sports College. They manage the SSP and develop strategic links with key partners in sport and the wider community.
An SSCo is based in a secondary school and concentrates on improving school sport opportunities, including out of hours school learning, intra and inter-school competition and club links, across a family of schools.
PLTs are based in primary and special schools and aim to improve the quantity and quality of PE and sport in their own schools. |
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SSCo Partnerships are based around families of schools with a team made up of a PDM, SSCo’s and PLT’s. The diagram above shows the schools that make up the Wickersley Schools Sports Partnership.
The Partnership Development Manager for the Wickersley School Sports Partnership is Mr Peter Harper. |
The Thrybergh Cluster
The Thrybergh Cluster is made up of one Secondary School and 6 primary/infant schools. |
• Thrybergh Comprehensive School
• Thrybergh Fullerton CE (A) Primary School
• Thrybergh Primary School
• Trinity Croft CE (A) Junior and Infant School
• Dalton Foljambe Primary School
• High Greave Junior School
• High Greave Infant School |
The School Sports Co-ordinator for the Thrybergh Schools is Mrs Joanne Towers, who is based at the Secondary School. |
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Each primary school has a Primary Link Teacher:
Thrybergh Fullerton – Miss G Rogers
Thrybergh Primary – Mr A Barker
Trinity Croft – Miss V Pretty
Dalton Foljambe – Mrs S Burrows
High Greave Juniors – Miss B Pilton
High Greave Infants – Mrs T Leedham
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ROLES & RESPONSIBILITIES OF A PRIMARY LINK TEACHER
Overview of Role
The main role of a PLT is to be responsible for the development and delivery of a high quality physical education and out of school hours' sport programme within their own school.
A structure has been put in place that should give the PLT necessary time, guidance and support for them to have a positive impact on PE and sport within your school and your local community. This support structure is outlined below:-
Purpose
To be responsible for the development and delivery of a high quality physical education and out of school hours sport programme within their own school.
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Overall role
Manage the development and delivery, in conjunction with SMT, of a physical education and out of school hours sport programme within their school, complementing overall school development. |
Examples include:-
• Completion of national training modules for PLT’s.
• Progressive PE development plan as part of wider school action plans
• Share good practice in physical education and sport in their own school and with other local schools
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Examples include:-
• Sharing of good practice in terms of risk assessments.s.
• Development of joint curriculum planning tools.
• Develop and increase sporting links with other local schools. |
Specific functions
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To support their colleagues to deliver high quality physical education and school sport.
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To work with the School Sport Co-ordinator in developing school sport in their school.
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To co-ordinate, develop and implement an out of school hours programme for physical education and sport.
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To make effective use of community providers to support their physical education and school sport programme.
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To make effective use of appropriate adults other than teachers (AOTTs) and young people as leaders, coaches and officials to support their physical education and school sport programme.
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To contribute to the ongoing monitoring and evaluation of the programme.
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To write and review an annual action plan for the delivery of PE and School Sport.
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To be committed to undertake PLT CPD national training programme.
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SSCo FUNDING
Release time to undertake PLT Role
As you are aware your school has been allocated funding that will facilitate the release of the PLT for twelve days a year to focus on PE and sport. A fixed sum of £160 per PLT per day will be paid to provide a replacement for the PLT’s teaching responsibilities.
The use of this allocated time should be limited to those areas outlined below; however there is a certain degree of flexibility within the programme and any granting of requests for use of your PLT time outside those areas outlined below is at the discretion of your SSCo.
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Compulsory attendance at 6 half day PLT meetings (1 per half term) and 1 full day Evaluating/Planning PLT meeting. Non-attendance may result in loss of funding!
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Attendance at PLT specific training courses
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National Data return preparation and recording
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OSHL planning, monitoring and review of progress report
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Development planning/PE policy review
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Internal school activities-team teaching, guidance and advice to NQTs and other staff
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Attendance at cluster day activities-half or full days up to 3 days
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CPD / coaching courses provided by partnership
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Further Information:
PLT Action Plan
All PLT’s will be responsible for writing a yearly Action Plan for their school, based on targets identified in the Family Development Plan. The Family Development Plan is written every 3 years by the SSCo in discussion with PLT’s and is linked into targets set in the Partnership Development Plan. The Partnership is written every 3 years by the PDM/SSCo’s and it has to take into account the overall needs of the Secondary and Primary Schools in the Partnership.
Termly Family Meetings
Your School Sport Co-ordinator will organise regular 'family' meetings where all the PLT’s in the cluster will discuss a wide range of issues and initiatives relating to the development of PE and school sport. This is a forum where areas of good practice will be shared.
Monitoring and Evaluation
A structured monitoring and evaluation process will be put in place to enable the partnership to prove the contribution it has made to school sport. It is your responsibility to implement a rigorous and robust monitoring system within your school to prove the value of the work that you have undertaken. Once again your SSCO will support you in devising and implementing a system to meet your individual needs.
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