Sedgefield SSP

Sedgefield School Sport Partnership. What is it?

 

1. National Background

In the 1990’s there was growing concern amongst education, health and sports professionals over the diminishing amount of quality Physical Education time on the curriculum, the growing levels of obesity and inactivity amongst young people and the lack of opportunities and success in local and international sport.

Action was needed:

 

• April 2000 - the Government published ‘ Sporting Future for All’. Key target:

’by 2003 establish 600 School Sport Co-ordinators in communities of greatest need , based in families of schools linked wherever possible through LEAs to Specialist Sports Colleges.’ The programme to be funded by the Sport England Lottery Fund.

 

• July 2000 – Government announces a further commitment :

‘An additional 400 School Sport Co-ordinators will be established through Exchequer Funding. This will bring the total to 1000 SSCos by September 2004.’

 

• 2002 – DfES and DCMS came together to drive forward a National PE, School Sport and Club Links Strategy (PESSCL) with an investment of £459 million. Amongst the targets was:

‘3200 School Sport Co-ordinators by 2006 within 400 School Sport Partnerships.’

 

• 2004 – A further half a billion pounds announced for the period April 2006 – March 2008

 

• 2008 - £755million invested until 2011 to extend the strategy now called PESSYP – Physical Education and Sport Strategy for Young People

 

2. Aim of the School Sport Partnerships

The School Sport Partnerships have and will be a major vehicle to deliver the key objective of the Governments PESSCL Strategy and PESSYP:

PESSCL STRATEGY (2002-2008) and PESSYP (2008-2011)

 

3. Objectives of the School Sport Partnerships

The programme has Public service Agreement Targets which the Sedgefield partnership will need to address:

 

·        Increased participation in high quality physical education

 

·        Increased participation in high quality out of school hours learning.

 

·        Increased participation in high quality competition and performance

 

·        Increased attainment and achievement in and through Physical Education, Out of School Hours Learning and sport including volunteering and leadership

 

·        Increased participation in community based sport and improved quality of community life.

 

4. How will it Work?

The Government funding provides for experienced teachers to undertake the roles of:

Partnership Development Manager (PDM) – to work full –time to be responsible for the strategic development of the partnership and liaison with other agencies. The PDM is hosted by the Sedgefield Specialist Sports College

School Sport Co-ordinators (SSCo) – each Secondary school will release an experienced teacher for 2 days a week to co-ordinate and drive development in the secondary school and associated family of primary/special schools.

Primary Link Teacher (PLT) – a teacher will be released for up to 12 days a year to be responsible for the development and delivery of a high quality physical education and out of school hours sport programme with in their own school.

This team of people will work together to achieve the objectives of the programme. 

 

6. The Sedgefield Partnership

• The Sedgefield partnership is co-ordinated by Sedgefield Community College – a Specialist Sports College
• The partnership is in Phase 7 of the programme and commenced on 1^st September 2003 and expanded to the full partnership from September 2005.
• The initial partnership included:

3 secondary schools + the Sports College

2 secondary special schools

2 primary special schools

21 primary schools (including one junior and 1 infant)

• The other 3 secondary schools in Sedgefield Borough and one Pupil Referral Unit and  18 feeder Primaries joined the partnership in September 2005
• A total of  7 secondary, 3 secondary Special and 39 Primary and 1 PRU
• Other key partners include

Durham County Council

Sedgefield Borough Council

Durham Sport

County Durham Primary Care Trust

Governing bodies of Sport and Sports Clubs

Sedgefield Sporting Hub

 

7. Monitoring and Evaluation

An annual national survey is undertaken to ascertain progress towards the national strategy targets. Every school completes the survey at the end of the academic year.

The Sedgefield School Sport Partnership has made great progress.

 

The % of students receiving 2 Hours of High Quality PE has increased

 

2003-4	2004-5	2005-6	2006-7	2007-8
23%	49%	72%	85%

 

8. Points of Contact