School Games Road ShowCornwall1st April 2011

What is the School Games?The government’s policy for School Sport

• More young people competing – ‘Personal Best’• More regular competition• Access for all young people – disability•Modernisation and alignment of NGB competitivepathways• A vehicle through which to deliver outcomes for young people

PilotsSpring and Summer Term 2011• Cornwall• Kent• Central London• Hertfordshire• Black Country• Greater Manchester• Lincolnshire• North Yorkshire• Tyne and Wear

Building a brighter future for young people through PE and sport

CulminatesIn a School Games Day

SchoolGamesLeagues

SchoolGamesFestival

National Organising Committee

Primary PE Co‐ordinators and Secondary PE Departments key to levels 1 ‐ 3

Primary PE Co‐ordinators and Secondary PE Departments key to levels 1 ‐ 3

School Games Organisers (SGOs)• 450 positions, 3 days per week

1.Increase participation in the least active2.Increasing the number of young people in inter school competition (level 2) and progression to level 33.Progression and pathways into club and community sport

SportsPilot – 10 sports and 5 disability sports

Long term – 30+ sports will prepare formats available for schools at intra and inter school level:

The choice will be for schools to decide what they want to enter teams into or run as an intra school programme

Clarity, accessibility

School Games Prospectus• To all Schools• How to register• Promote in your School

Today’s focusThe role you can play in the School Games pilot…

…Planning your level 1 School Games Day

CulminatesIn a School Games Day

Athlete Messages“What school sport meant to me as a young person, and what it means to me as an adult”

Darren CampbellOlympic Gold Medalist - athletics

Darren Campbell•Dream School Sports Day: a festival of sport, lots of different sports

• Competition in sport taught important lessons taken into professional life

Chris CookCommonwealth Gold Medalist - swimming

Chris Cook• Best memory of competition at school –finishing 31st in cross-country

• Wasn’t ‘good’ at competition when at school

• an only child and feels that school competition helped him to develop

Hope you are inspired !

Over to you…

Sporting Spirit Values

Your role in the School Games

Your School GamesWhat is your level 1 competition programme and what do you want it to become?

What will your level event this summer look like? Paint a picture in your mind of what you will do

How and when will you work with young people to shape and develop your level 1 programme for next year?

What next?Register your involvement in level 1: complete the form to win an athlete visit to your School Games Festival Day

After Easter – as a school participating in level 1 you will receive a promotion pack and delivery pack to support delivery of your School Games Festival Day

Thank you