Athlete Identification Days Katy Elliott Leeds City Council

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Athlete Identification DaysKaty Elliott- Leeds
City Council
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The background

• School Sport Partnerships invited to join Youth
  Sport Trust Disability Gifted and Talented
  initiative.
• 1000- ID 10 young people, support them with
  provision of sport, run 3 ID days per year.
• Identification Days now seem to be the main
  focus.

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How we organised it.

• City wide project rather than individual School
  Sport Partnerships.
• Co-ordinating group- Disability Officer, 2 SSCOs
  and 1 PDM.
• Initial 1 day pilot June 07.
• This school year 1 generic ID day, 1 Athletics
  ID/Development day, 1 Swimming ID day.

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Who came?

• Schools found it difficult to know who to send to
  the events- hence the reason for the events!
• Any disabled young person with an interest or
  flair for sport.
• Initiative focuses on physical and sensory
  impairment. We invited schools to bring up to 2
  young people with learning disabilities.

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Who came?

• Pilot event- June 2007- 37 young people.
• Generic ID day November 2007- 74 young people
• 56 from mainstream schools.
• Athletics ID event- March 17th 2008
• Swimming event June 2008.

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Some of the difficulties

• The actual assessment! Are they Gifted or
  Talented?
• The ID assessment card.
• How to structure the day?
• Impairment groups or ability groups?
• Which activities to use to allow pupils to show
  their skills?
• Skill based- rackets, athletics, multi skill,
  invasion games. Partly based on availability of
  coaching staff.

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Some of the positives

• Bringing disabled young people together to
  participate in sport who dont always get the
  same chances as others.
• Enthusing young people in sport.
• Promoting other sporting opportunities to a keen
  crowd.
• Highlighting ability and disability sport to
  teaching staff and SSCOs.

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The next event Athletics based.

• Similar format to previous events.
• Activities specifically based on athletics.
• IDing opportunity.
• Chance for athletes to have a go at athletics
  events.
• Promote attendance at FDSO regional competition
  structure to staff and pupils.
• Promote community athletics club.

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Next steps

• Swimming ID day- June.
• County ID day.
• Development days for talented young people.
• Competition links.
• Community club links.
• CPD for staff.