Your School Games Organisers

East Dorset
Katrina Cole –sgo4eastdorset@gmail.com

Poole
Carla Rham – c.rham@poolehigh.poole.sch.uk

PEDSSA has enthusiastic and hard-working School Games Organisers who plan and deliver a variety of Level 2 School Games events throughout the year. They are also essential to providing Active Dorset with advice and support for all Level 3 School Games festivals in Dorset.

School Games Organiser: Core Tasks
School Games Organisers focus on the following five core tasks:
Participation: Drive participation in School Games competition and increase the number of young people taking part in competition.
Competition for All: Develop competitive opportunities for all, including the least active.
Clubs: Increase regular participation in club sport; involve the least active through Change 4 Life Sports Clubs and increase links to local clubs.
Workforce: Broaden participation opportunities through volunteering and workforce roles.
Performance: Establish key performance indicators, target delivery and review progress on a termly basis

To access the School Games Page On Active Dorset website and find out more about PE and School Sport issues

https://www.activedorset.org/school-sport

Dorset Leadership, Coaching and Volunteering
The Grange School is the Youth Sport Trust Lead Partner School for Leadership, Coaching and Volunteering in Dorset. Led by Daniel Moody and supported by the Youth Sport Trust, Active Dorset and the Dorset SGOs, the Dorset Leadership Programme has grown over the last three years to a point now where it’s a key part of the PE and school sport offer in primary, middle and secondary schools in Dorset. The programme consists of fully inclusive county wide leadership academies, sport specific leadership training, primary leadership academies for pupils in year 5 & 6, Step into Sport events and the Young Coach Academy aimed at providing level 1 and level 2 coaching qualifications for young people aged 16+. The programme offers training and deployment opportunities to over 1500 young people each year and support for schools to provide suitable leadership, coaching and volunteering pathways for all young people. For more information please contact your School Games Organiser.
Dorset Leadership Academy and Young Ambassador Conference – at Bryanston School –Leadership Academy
The Leadership Academy at Bryanston will provide high quality support and development for young people who would like to be actively involved in volunteering and leadership within their school and/or community. The Leadership Academy will focus on training volunteers in specific areas to become School Games Makers for the School Games Level 3 Finals. Students will be invited to be trained in the following roles – Young Team Managers, Photography Team, Film/Media Team and the Big Dance Team. The Leadership Academy will also provide training for Sport Leaders in Year 7 & 8 through the Sports Leaders UK Young Leader Award.
Young Ambassador Conference
Young Ambassadors are the most outstanding sports leaders in schools. They can be selected due to their sporting talent, but more importantly, due to their exceptional commitment and ability as young leaders or volunteers. The Young Ambassador role will form a vital link between the students and adults in each school. Their role is to increase participation and healthy active lifestyles in schools, be a role model and advocate for sporting activity and be the young peoples’ voice on PE and school sport. Young Ambassadors will be the foundation of the Leadership Programme. They will also assist in creating a performance environment and culture for athletes on the day of the Level 3 School Games Finals. The Young Ambassador conference will train new silver Young Ambassadors and will be supported by existing Young Ambassadors.
Primary Leadership Academies
The Primary Leadership Academies provide high quality support, training and development for primary age pupils. The academies train pupils in year 5 & 6 to become Bronze Young Ambassadors and develop and grow young people as leaders and volunteers. As a result of the Primary Leadership Academies last year, we now have nearly 600 new Bronze Ambassadors in Dorset carrying out various roles back in their schools. Bronze Young Ambassadors operate in their own school as ambassadors and role models advocating PE and school sport. They are the young people’s voice on PE and school sport in their school and work to increase participation and healthy active lifestyles. The Primary Leadership Academies are delivered by the Dorset School Games Organisers and Young Ambassadors from secondary schools around the county.
Sport Specific Leadership Training
The School Games in Dorset in run by young people for young people. To ensure a high standard of officiating at the Level 3 School Games Finals, we have put in place a sports specific training programme for sports leaders who will be organising and officiating at Level 3 competitions. Secondary schools can volunteer to provide leaders for a specific sport. Each of these schools will then work with the National Governing Body for their allocated sport to arrange the delivery of official leadership qualifications for their sports leaders. The aim is to have qualified sports leaders and officials for every sport in the Level 3 School Games Finals. The programme will result in more than 350 sport specific leaders being trained throughout the year.
Step into Sport
The purpose of this event is to further develop leadership skills in young people and inspire them to volunteer in sport, with a focus on making sport inclusive for all. The sessions will be led by the Victoria School, who are the Dorset Project Ability School. The aim will be to develop the communication and organisation skills of the young leaders, whilst raising awareness of the opportunities available to them. Following this event there will be an opportunity to lead disability sports at the Dorset School Games Final at Bryanston School in the summer.
Dorset Young Coach Academy
The Dorset Young Coach Academy aims to provide an opportunity for 30 young people Aged 14 – 19 to gain greater insight into the requirements of being an ‘Outstanding’ Coach in a sport of their choice. The Academy aims to be the pinnacle of opportunity for Young Coaches within the County. In addition to a number of compulsory sessions, there will be a personalised ‘mentoring’ system allowing the young people to learn from established coaches in Dorset clubs. Students will be supported in achieving the minimum standards for deployment for coaches in Dorset, and will also have the opportunity to attend sessions delivered by expert practitioners in the world of sports coaching and sports science.