Sports College

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Vision

The Sports College aims to raise standards of achievement in physical education and sport for all of its students across the ability range leading to whole school improvement. It is a regional focal point for promoting excellence in physical education and community sport, extending links between families of schools, sports bodies and communities, sharing resources, developing and spreading good practice, helping to provide a structure through which young people can progress to careers in sport and physical education. The Sports College aims to increase participation in physical education and sport for all pre and post 16 year olds and develop the potential of talented performers.

• Raise standards of attainment in Physical education and sport for all students
• Raise standards of attainment in a 2nd target setting subject (English)
• Have a physically rich curriculum that embraces kinaesthetic learning, healthy living and leadership in all aspects of school life
• Use PE and the 2nd subject as a catalyst for whole school improvement
• Encourage pupils, particularly post 16, to have a lifelong participation in sport and physical activity beyond school, not only as performers but as coaches, leaders, administrators and officials
• Develop the skills and understanding of teachers and be centres of excellence in the imaginative and innovative use of technology as a means to enhancing learning in PE
• Develop the support for and potential of, talented sport performers within local governing body of sport arrangements
• Collaborate with other primary and secondary schools within the schools sport partnership and the wider community to raise standards of teaching and learning in PE
• In collaboration with the LSC and the local sporting business community, help to provide a vocational learning structure through which young people can develop the skills needed to progress into employment, further education and training in the sport and PE sector
• Play a leading role locally in supporting the national PE, School Sport and Club Links (PESSCL) strategy