Youth Sport Trust

We are very proud to be a Lead School in Wiltshire for the YST. Part of a network of 60 selected schools from across the country chosen for their expertise in engaging young people to participate in Leadership through PE and School Sport.

The school will be working closely with Youth Sport Trust, promoting leadership to other schools in Wiltshire.

Abbeyfield School will take a partnership approach with local schools and organisations to develop inclusive pathways for young people to progress as leaders, coaches, volunteers and officials. (LCV).

All LCV schools are provided with national networking and development opportunities to drive leadership and coaching forward to meet the needs of the young people locally. LCV Lead Schools are members of a national network which uses innovative approaches to drive individual and whole school improvement.

At Abbeyfield School you are given the opportunity to take on different leadership roles in line with Youth Sport Trust:

Sports Ambassador Year 7 – 11
Sports Enrichment Year 12 -13
Sports Council Year 11 – 13

These roles offer exciting opportunities and the chance to be part of the Youth Sport Trust Leadership Programme. Every leader will be given the opportunity to organise and run different sporting festivals for our feeder primary schools. They will also work alongside the Chippenham Sports Partnership and be part of the Chippenham Sporting Community. As part of the Youth Sport Trust Leadership programme, you will complete a series of learning modules that focus on developing the skills which help you learn vital skills that will help with every day life. We look at teamwork, communication, problem solving, self-belief and self-management and skills framework. All modules are fun and engaging, with activities that test the Sports Ambassadors knowledge and help them build their confidence to organise and run sports event. You will receive the Youth Sport Trust award at the end of your school year.

You will also work with our Active Partners and the Abbeyfield PE Community, and Sixth Form leadership team. The Sports Ambassadors are seen as the face of our Sports Community. This role will give each leader the chance to plan and run events yourself, this is great for the local community and building your skill set.

The great thing about the Youth Sport Trust leadership role is you don’t have to be SPORTY to be a Sports Ambassador. Instead, you need to demonstrate an ability to lead others, alongside the desire and commitment to make a difference.

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If you want to know more please email jep@abbeyfield.wilts.sch.uk

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Abbeyfield School has been running its Sports Ambassador programme for the past 5 years. In 2020 the programme was recognise by Youth Sport Trust and together we will be taking leadership to every corner ot Wiltshire!

We are delighted to say:

•Abbeyfield School was recognised for its Outstanding Sports Ambassador and Sports Enrichment Programme.

•Abbeyfield School is now a representative of the county and takes a partnership approach to delivery with local schools and organisations to develop inclusive pathways for young people to progress as leaders, coaches, officials and volunteers. All LCV schools are provided with national networking and exclusive development opportunities to drive leadership and coaching forward across the country and to meet the needs of the young people locally.

•Leadership, Coaching and Volunteering (LCV) Lead Schools are members of a national network that use innovative approaches to drive individual and whole school improvement through leadership, coaching and volunteering.

•Collectively, the LCV network works closely with Youth Sport Trust to demonstrate the value and impact of leadership, coaching and volunteering within whole school and/or community contexts and ensures that these opportunities for young people remain inclusive.

If you would like to know more please contact jep@abbeyfield.wilts.sch.uk

‘ It’s great to have Abbeyfield as the new LCV school for Wiltshire. They have consistently, over many years, provided opportunities for students to develop their leadership abilities to allow their own younger students, local primary children and other organizations within the Mid Wiltshire area to benefit from regular physical activity. Abbeyfield continually lead the way with innovative programmes, the range of sports available and the inclusive nature of what they offer. I’m sure all the schools in Wiltshire will now benefit’.

Alma Borthwick Active Partner

Alma@wiltssport.org

Wiltshire and Swindon School Sport

It is widely acknowledged that the school leadership programme helps to build character and confidence and will ultimately have a positive effect academically. The LCV school plays a very important role in driving forward leadership, coaching and volunteering across the county, by offering training and deployment opportunities, and support for schools to provide suitable pathways for all young people.

I work closely with the LCV school through the School Games Programme to provide leadership opportunities for 300 young people each year. Abbeyfield School have regularly been my go to school as I can always rely on Jessica to provide high calibre leaders with the skills to be flexible and adapt to whatever role needs to be filled, often at short notice. As well as officiating this has included diverse roles such as being the SG mascot and being interviewed live by BBC radio at the showcase summer event.

With the strong commitment to leadership, Abbeyfield is in a great place to lead by example and inspire other schools who may not have developed their leadership programme to the same degree.

Paul Wickens School Games Organsier Mid Wiltshire

PWickens@devizes.wilts.sch.uk

https://midwiltsschoolsport.co.uk

An LCV school plays a key role across the County in creating pathways and opportunities for leaders, coaches and volunteers for all ages and abilities.

Abbeyfield would is a great choice as it has a long history of providing top quality leaders for local Chippenham partnership primary school events through to the County School Games events.

The opportunity to collaborate with different colleagues through the network benefits the schools and those pupils involved in these programmes.

This is an exciting opportunities and one Abbeyfield would do very well.

Selwyn Widger

School Games Organiser sw@acorneducationtrust.com

School Games Organiser

Being the lead school in Wiltshire, Abbeyfield Lead Youth Sports Trust member works closely with Wiltshire’s School Games Organisers. We attend regular meetings and work closely together to ensure Leadership in Wiltshire is on everyone’s agenda.

The School Games inspires young people to be physically active for life through positive experiences of daily activity and competition.

https://www.yourschoolgames.com/

Please click the following link to find out more about your school games organisers: https://www.wiltssport.org/wiltshire-and-swindon-sgos

Chippenham Sports Partnership

The Chippenham Sports Partnership is made up of representatives from each of the 3 main secondary schools; Jessica Pierce (Abbeyfield School And lead Youth Sport Trust) and Emma Barton (Hardenhuish), Selina Porter (Sheldon). Events are open to all schools in the Partnership. They involve a variety of competitions, festivals, programmes and staff CPD courses. Some of the competitions are School Games Competitions which you must enter if you want to progress onto Level 3. Other festivals are more informal and provide pupils with the experience of working alongside other schools. There is a chronological list of all competitions in this handbook with details of dates, times, venues and rules.

Pupils also have the opportunity to experience roles other than participant and during the year are invited to attend two Young Official Courses which take place at a local secondary school. These courses equip pupils with the knowledge they need to support Level 1 events on the school site.

There are other programmes available which target specific groups of pupils. These include gifted and talented pupils who are invited to be part of the Talent Team or hard to engage pupils who are invited to be part of the All Active Academy which incorporates the Change4Life objectives. Both programmes involve workshops at a secondary school site and a trip to Bath University.

It continues to be a priority of ours to work alongside staff involved with the planning and delivery of PE and sports. During the year there are many opportunities for staff to access CPD and networking events. These include PLT meetings, PE Federation Days and other locally organised events. Details of these events are outlined in this handbook.

To find out more about the Chippenham Sports Partnership please email Jessica Pierce: jep@abbeyfield.wilts.sch.uk

for more information check out…

The Chippenham Sports Partnership

Website www.chipsportpart.co.uk

Sports Ambassador Programme

These roles offer exciting opportunities and the chance to be part of Abbeyfield School PE community, and Sixth Form leadership team. Responsibilities including running badminton sessions and lunch time basketball sessions, supporting our Sports Community by running and organising primary school events, and even launching community events for the wider community from Preschool upwards.

The Sports Ambassadors are seen as the face of our Sports Community and will attend Sixth Form meetings. This role will give you the chance to plan and run events yourself, this is great for the local community and building your skill set. To help support this every person on the programme will undergo safeguarding and first aid training, you receive qualifications that will help you with life after school. The great thing about the leadership role is you don’t have to be SPORTY to be a Sports Ambassador. Instead, you need to demonstrate an ability to lead others, alongside the desire and commitment to make a difference.

Abbeyfield School Sports Ambassadors work with Youth Sport Trust, WE ARE THE ONLY SCHOOL IN WILTSHIRE THAT CAN OFFER THIS! Our Sports Ambassador programme is open to all students who wish to be part of a leadership team and which has been recognised by Youth Sports Trust as outstanding. Making Abbeyfield School the Leadership, Coaching and Volunteering School (LCV) lead school for Wiltshire (the only school) working with Youth Sport Trust on all things Leadership. The Sports Ambassador programme offers exciting leadership opportunities ,we offer the chance to be part of Abbeyfield School PE community and work with 18 local primary schools. You will not only gain confidence and experience in all leadership aspects, but also be part of a team. With this role, you will have the responsibility to help at break time badminton session, run basketball sessions during lunchtime and support our Sports Community by supporting primary school events. The Sports Ambassadors are seen as the face of our Sports Community and will attend Sixth Form meetings. This role will give you the chance to plan and run events yourself, this is great for the local community and building your skill set. You don’t have to be SPORTY to be a Sports Ambassador, you need to have a desire to support others and want to be part of something bigger. This will gain you important leadership skills!!

View below to see some of our senior leaders.

From being a part of our Sports Leadership Programme, you will be able to build skills such as…

Gain formal Qualifications
Leadership qualities/skills
Communication skills
Team work skills
Organisation skills
Public speaking skills
Young Coaches Qualification
First Aid Qualification YR12 / YR13
Safe Guarding level 1 Qualification
Work with over 2000 children
Be Part of the School Games
Receive Mentoring Training
Run Community Events

Senior Leaders

Hello my name is Abi and I am one of the Sport Enrichment leaders. I am a Woman’s FA qualified referee, footballer and a figure skater. As you can tell I am passionate about sports and being a team leader. I joined the sports ambassador program in year 9 because I wanted to engage younger kids in participating physical activities and events which would benefit them physically and mentally. Since joining the sports ambassador program it has helped with my confidence and improved my leadership and organisation skills. It has also allowed me to inspire hundreds of primary school students and help them grow as an individual.

My name is Abbie , I am part of Sports Enrichment and my role in this is focused on our Primary Schools and Clubs. This role involves supporting the organisation of events, coordinating the sports ambassadors, booking the space required, communicating with others about the event and organising the activities. I organise events such as multi skills where we split the children into groups, and they rotate round different stations of many activities. I also communicate closely with Miss Pierce to put across my ideas and inform her with any information I have about the event. I am currently the lead on the Wiltshire Young Voices project and will be launching this scheme to all the schools in Wiltshire.

Multi Skills Offer

Mrs Pierce can deliver Multi-Skill festivals in your school to support your children develop these life skills and prepare for competition in the future. Mrs Pierce will train your YR5 in the Youth Sport Trust Leadership programme, giving these students the skills to deliver these fantastic festivals. We also offer Key Stage Festivals at Abbeyfield School run by the experienced Youth Sport Trust Platinum leaders. You can use your sports premium to hire a coach or book the Abbeyfield mini bus to come and experience one of many Multi Skills Festivals.

Multi-Skill festivals are a fantastic way of supporting the development of fundamental movement skills. It is not competitive and you are working against your own ability.

Developing fundamental movement skills from a young age supports young people to be happy, healthy and confident movers, with the essential skills they need to develop a life-long love of being physically active.

Multi-Skill festivals include a rotation of multi-skill activities, e.g. jumping, skipping, throwing, catching, lunging, which challenge children to achieve their personal best.

These quality learning experiences allow children to develop their physical competence whilst experiencing wider social benefits and outcomes. To book your school in contact jep@abbeyfield.wilts.sch.uk

Contact YST Lead

Jessica Pierce

Youth Sport Trust Lead School Lead

jep@abbeyfield.wilts.sch.uk

In today’s challenging world, Abbeyfield School has been lucky enough to become the lead school in Wiltshire for all things Sports Leadership, Volunteering and Coaching (LVC), working with Youth Sport Trust. We as a school are fully committed to ensuring all children get the opportunity to experience leadership. We all understand the importance of being active and the direct impact in enhancing our wellbeing and improving our mental health.

LCV Lead Schools are beacons of best practice in their counties, promoting an increased profile and additional opportunities for young leaders in their area. LCV Leads play two essential roles: influencing and driving innovative leadership practice across the county providing support and guidance to schools and partners, and delivering targeted interventions appropriate to area of need.

To introduce myself, my Name is Jessica Pierce and I am delighted to be the Community Sport Leader responsible for delivering /giving the opportunity for your school to access the leadership programme though Youth Sport Trust and train YR5/YR6 to become Sports Leaders.

I have been responsible for running the Sports Ambassador Programme at Abbeyfield for the past 5 years and feel very passionate about children being given the opportunity to lead. My fundamental belief is that you do not have to be sporty to be a leader.

The main role of a Sports Leader: Respect, Self-Belief, Honesty, Team Work, Passion and Determination.

To achieve this we will:
• Encourage all children to get involved in sports no matter of ability.
• Create new ideas to develop sport within their school.
• Show sports leadership qualities such as team work, good listening skills, fair play and respect.
• Help teach children certain skills within different aspects of sport.
• Officiate different lunch time and intra-school competitions.
• Take suggestions and ideas from their class about how sport can be improved within their school.
• Help set up, get children involved, organise fair teams and record results from intra-school competitions.
• Create and deliver key stage assemblies on upcoming sporting events.
• Design posters to be placed around the school advertising sporting competitions and fundraising events.

If this is something your school would like to be involved with (fingers crossed you do as its super exciting) and would like to know more about the Youth Sport Programme, please do not hesitate to contact me: jep@abbeyfield.wilts.sch.uk

Girls Football Schools Partnership

Abbeyfield School is proud to be Barclays Mid-Wiltshire Girls Football Partnership School, 1 of only 150 Girls Football Hubs across the Country. Being a Girls Football Hub gives our schools the opportunity to access new and exciting initiatives that will support the Football Association and the Youth Sport Trust’s vision to give every girls equal access to football in schools by 2024.

By 2024 we aim to have:

75% of schools providing football in the curriculum for girls
90% of schools providing football participation opportunities for girls

There are lots of training and resources that schools can access.

Girls Football in schools website www.girlsfootballinschools.org

This website has been designed as a one-stop-shop for all schools to access, support, practical resources and useful information to develop girls football provision in your school

The FA Shooting Stars programme inspired by Disney

This programme is made up of two initiatives; Active Play Through Story Telling and Girls’ Football Clubs, both have been developed to support the engagement of girls aged 5-11 years old. There are some fantastic resources available to support you in delivering these sessions including story books, flipbooks and videos, as well as ‘take home’ adventure passports so children can share their experiences with parents/carers.

The FA Shooting Stars Active Play Through Storytelling programme inspired by Disney has been developed to support girls aged 5-8 in developing their physical literacy, speaking and listening skills through creative play and storytelling. The resources are designed to achieve the learning objectives based on Key Stage 1 Literacy and PE.

The FA Shooting Stars Girls’ Football Club programme inspired by Marvel has been developed to truly capture the imagination of Primary age girls, using super-human powers, high-tech gadgets and superheroes. There are resources available for both Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2.

Barclays Game On – GO Lead

Barclays Game On – GO Lead, programme offers girls 11-16 years the opportunity to learn to lead and then practice their leadership skills by delivering opportunities for their peers to participate in football. Offering this approach not only supports leadership skills but also increases opportunities for girls to participate in football led by girls, with the expectation to that the next generation of the female workforce will start to grow and develop.

We are delighted to be the Barclays Mid-Wiltshire Girls Football Partnership School, if you have any questions please contact Jessica Pierce jep@abbeyfield.wilts.sch.uk or girlsfootballinschools.org