GreenacreSSP

What is a School Sports Partnership?

School Sport Partnerships (SSPs) are groups of schools working together to develop PE and sport opportunities for all young people.

The Greenacre School Sports Partnership consists of;
1 x Partnership Development Manager (PDM);
1 x Assistant Partnership Development Manager
1 x Competition Manager
1 x Sports Mentor
10 x School Sport Co-coordinators (SSCos);
4x x Primary Link Teachers (PLTs).

A PDM is a full-time role usually based within a Sports College. They manage the SSP and develop strategic links with key partners in sport and the wider community.

An SSCo is based in a secondary school and concentrates on improving school sport opportunities, including out of hours school learning, intra and inter-school competition and club links, across a family of schools.

PLTs are based in primary and special schools and aim to improve the quantity and quality of PE and sport in their own schools.

The Partnership is hosted by Greenacre School in Walderslade - to find out who undertakes each of these roles for the Greenacre School Sports Partnership please click on the 'Meet the team' link

The School Sport Co-ordinator programme was first launched in September 2000 with an initial 600 School Sport Co-ordinators (SSCo’s) being funded through Sport England’s Lottery Fund. These were targeted at areas of greatest deprivation. Through the PE, School Sport and Club Links (PESSCL) strategy, the government ensured that school sport partnerships are now an integral part of every LEA and school’s PE and school sport strategy. There are now over 450 partnerships with 3,200 SSCo’s in secondary schools and 18,000 primary or special school link teachers. This includes every maintained school in England.

The Physcial Education and Sport Strategy for Young People (PESSYP) was launched by the Government in 2008 and set an ambition for “All children and young people aged between 5–16 years to have the opportunity to participate in five hours of sport per week by 2011 (including two hours of high quality PE and sport at school)”. Since then our schools, local clubs and coaches have been working together to try to offer 2 hours of PE in curriculum time, 1 hour after school and an additional 2 hours of community sport to all pupils.