What are School Sports Partnerships?

Schools Sport Partnerships (SSPs) are at the hub of the Government’s strategy to enhance young people’s opportunities to participate in a wide range of sports as well as raising the standards of teaching and learning of PE and school sport

SSPs are groups of schools working together to develop PE and sport opportunities for all young people.

The Caterham School Sports Partnership links each of its 9 Secondary with a group of primary schools. These 'School Families' work together to develop PE and sporting oportunities for all young people.

Who does what?

Kay Wilding is the PDM who manages the Partnership and develops strategic links with key partners in sport and the wider community, and is based at Caterham High School.

Each secondary school has an SSCo who concentrates on improving school sport opportunities, including out of hours learning, intra and inter-school competitions and club links, across the family of schools. Have a look at the Events page to see all that is going on across the Caterham SSP.

The PLTs are based in each primary and special school with the aim of improving the quantity and quality of PE and sport in their own schools.

PESSCL Strands

The PESSCL strategy is being delivered through eight strands:

• Specialist Sports Colleges - sport is one of the ten specialisms within the specialist schools programme.  The aim is to have four hundred sports colleges, subject to sufficient high quality applications, by 2005.
• School Sport Partnerships - there will be four hundred school sport partnerships by 2006.
• Gifted and Talented Programme - aims to improve the range and quality of teaching, coaching and learning for talented sports people in order to raise their aspirations and improve their performance, motivation and self-esteem.
• QCA PE and School Sport Investigation - aims to investigate the difference that high quality PE and school sport make to young people and the impact that this has on their schools.
• Step into Sport - aims to encourage young people and adults to begin and continue and involvement in sports leadership and volunteering.
• Professional Development - aims to raise the quality of teaching and learning in PE and school sport by ensuring that teachers and others have the tools and expertise that they need.  All maintained schools in England are able to access the programme free of charge.
• School / Club Links - aims to increase the proportion of children guided into sports clubs from school sport partnerships.
• Swimming - aims to ensure that more children are able to swim the statutory twenty-five metres by the end of Key Stage 2.

There is also a link to coaching developed through the work of the coaching task force.