The Woodcote School Sport Partnership

As Partnership Development Manager of Woodcote School Sport Partnership, I would like to extend a warm welcome to all schools involved.  Woodcote SSP is one of 3 partnerships within Croydon and includes 1 college, 7 secondary or academy schools and 32 primary and special schools. 

The aim of the partnership is to achieve high quality physical education and school sport in all schools, and to enable sport to be used in improving all areas of a pupils development.  At present 49% of pupils in years 1 to 11 within Woodcote SSP schools currently take part in 3 hours or more of physical education and sport each week.  The past few years our task has been extended to encompass a greater vision of working in partnership with schools, community clubs and volunteer organisations to create opportunities for every child from 5 – 16 years old to receive 2 hours of high quality PE within the school day and a further 3 hours outside of school each week. These excellent links that have been established are enabling children throughout the Partnership to access a great array of sporting opportunities and to get involved as leaders inspiring younger pupils through sport.

 

Over the years the Competition Manager has worked alongside National Governing Bodies to ensure a depth and breath of competitions have been offered to partnership schools. We are again this year continuing with the virtual competitions in cross country and mini Olympics to ensure every child within a primary school has the opportunity to take part in a competitive event. In 2009-2010 the percentage of pupils in years 1-11 who were involved in inter school competition within Woodcote SSP increased by 21%, that’s an extra 3149 students.