Coaching
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.
The programme will comprise 4 elements:
1. A School Sport Coaching Grant to every SSP:
• Each SSP has received a Coaching Grant of £21,500, to deliver 1000 hours of coaching identified through a simple SSP coaching plan which should arise directly from SSPs’ Evaluation and Priorities
Documents.
• The grant is primarily to be used to fund a small team of coaches who will deliver a minimum of 200 hours of coaching each - this will create a step-change from short blocks of activity to programmes which lead to sustained engagement in clubs and competition.
• The allocation of School Sport Coaching hours must be deployed against those groups of pupils currently doing 4 hours per week or more, moving to 5 hours per week, and those currently doing 3 hours, moving to 5.
2. Training in Coach Management:
• Every PDM has attended a Coach Management Workshop delivered in partnership with Sportscoach UK. These workshops promote best practice in coach recruitment, deployment and management, and provide a useful tools to support the PDM in managing the School Sports Coaching
programme.
• The workshops also include guidance on the delivery of local coach briefings which will be delivered to the newly appointed coaching teams by the PDM
3. Local Coach Briefings:
• As detailed above, these will be run by the PDM for the newly appointed School Sport Coaches. The briefings will cover key quality drivers such as a “code of ethics” for coaches of children and orientation information on working in schools.
4. School Sports Coaching Scholarships:
A differentiated set of scholarships will be developed;
• scholarships for level 1 coaches working towards UKCC level 2
• scholarships for UKCC level 2 coaches who do not have prior experience of working with children
• scholarships to higher level coaches
These scholarships will include:
• CPD through either NGB or scUK workshops and qualifications
• mentoring through a co-coach appointed by the NGB
• A School Sports Coach branded tee-shirt
SSPs will be allocated scholarships based on their recruited coaching team. This will include vouchers which can be used to claim the CPD element of their scholarship package. All information regarding the School Sports Coaching Scholarships will be provided at the Coach Management workshops which all PDMs will attend in September.