Primary Schools
Our programmes are designed to help increase children’s activity levels, skills and confidence by introducing them to new sports and connecting them to their peers and local role models, including sports coaches and volunteers from our partners. Fully inclusive, we have seen our programmes impact positively on the confidence and the engagement of even the least supposedly sporty kids. Few will go on to play professional sport, but all kids can have fun chasing a ball or dancing or trying out a martial art (for example)
We work with primary schools from deprived communities across the UK and we have worked with over 800 different schools and reached over 87,000 children in our time, and we are looking forward to working with many more.
We build long term partnerships with schools, and do our best work with kids when the relationships with staff are strong – they really are relationships worth investing in, on both sides..
“To have a whole class taking part in an event is amazing for us. So even the kids that think they are not so great, they enjoy taking part. Because they see other kids at their level their confidence grows.” – Florin, Teacher at Lauriston Primary School
Outcomes for Primary Schools
The FREE Community Programme take place over one year following your group of pupils from the start through all stages of the programme which is split into four sections;
1. Team Spirit Workshop
SportInspired will visit the school to get the children excited about the festival, (even those who don’t like sport!) and teach them all about team spirit. Activities include creating awesome team names, chants and banners.
2. Multi-Sport Festival
Pupils will take part in a high-excitement, mixed sex, mixed ability, multi-sport festival where they sample six different sports available locally. Everything is set up to help all kids have maximum fun, and to generate the best team spirit possible (rather than the usual focus on performance) throughout. The ultimate aim is for every pupil to be inspired to find a sport they enjoy and want to do again, available locally, so they are able to take it up.
3. Legacy Sports Clubs
To convert the inspiration from the festival into action, we engage a local sports club from the festival of your choice, to deliver 20 weeks of 1-hour coaching sessions in your school (for free!). This will be either before school, at lunchtime or after school.
4. Surveys and Case Studies
To help our programmes to be completely free for schools, it is important we demonstrate evidence of their success. We therefore monitor the children’s health, well-being and confidence in class throughout the programme. This is done by collecting surveys from the teacher and all the children involved before the festival, after the legacy club, at 3 and 6 months, plus case studies from 2-3 children are done at the same time.
Our award winning approach helps schools to build on existing strengths and community assets to help meet and exceed OFSTED targets.
In 7 years we’ve helped nearly 350 schools deliver 201 programmes, which we provide for free with thanks to support from business and local authority partners
SportInspired introduces children to a variety of sports and uses sport to;
- Build confidence and enhance resilience
- Improve physical and mental health
- Expose young children to inspiring role models
- Improve behaviour in schools
- Boost connection to their community
