SSCO The School Sports Co-ordinators Programme
What is it?
The School Sport Co-ordinators programme is a key part of the Government's Physical Education, School Sport and Club Links (PESSCL) strategy.
All children, whatever their circumstances or abilities should be able to participate in and enjoy physical education (PE) and sport. The objective is to enhance the take up of sporting opportunities by 5 to 16 year olds. The aim is to increase the percentage of school children in England who spend a minimum of two hours each week on high quality PE and school sport, within and beyond the curriculum, to 75% by 2006.
The School Sports Co-ordinator partnerships will help to drive and support a number of key areas including increased collaboration among secondary, primary and special school; modernising the workforce through innovative use of teachers and others; extending partnerships beyond the classroom and supporting behaviour strategies. This will complement the belief that PE and school sport can raise whole school standards by improving pupil concentration, commitment and self-esteem, leading to high attendance and better behaviour.
SSCO NEWS
Newquay Primary family meeting, At this term’s meeting, the primary schools worked on their sports web pages, which are on the Treviglas web site and are being linked to their own sites. Dave Baron and his Technicians Academy ran this INSET and were a great help with one to one technical help for the Primary teachers. In the afternoon we moved venue to St. Columb Minor school and ran Dance INSET for KS 1 and KS2 teachers and TA’s with Jenny Cleverly (Dance specialist).
Before half term we ran a year 5/6 Rounders tournament and year 3-4 Athletics Festival. We had over 160 children taking part from the local primary schools and used over 50 Junior Sports Leaders and Six form National Diploma Sports course students to help run it.
In our Primary link work, we have used the Junior Sports Leaders this term in 4 of our feeder primary schools - Summercourt, Perranporth, Trevisker, and Indian Queens. The leaders have been running after school clubs for year 3-4 based on multi skills. With the schools, we have targeted low achievers in these clubs to raise their attainment.
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In the spring term we held the Newquay schools tag rughy tournament a fantastic day with over twelve teams taking part. The Cornish Pirates supported us with players coming in to present prizes and take some training session.
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This year we have worked with The Heron Tennis centre to get Tennis into the local community. The Club has run a teachers training day, after school and curriculumn time tennis sessions and a multi skills tennis festival.
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As part of the SSCO scheme teacher training is a very inportant part of raising standards across the P.E. curriculumn. The Primary link teachers have the opportunity to take part in INSET. This year INSET training has been opened up to other members of staff teachers TA's with Netball, dance, tag rugby, athletics hockey,skipping golf courses.
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