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The Competition Landscape-Are you using the
Infrastructure effectively?
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Vicci Webley SCM Herefordshire
Worcestershire Ian McNally PDM Redditch SSP
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School and Sport Partnerships Conference 2008
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Workshop Outcomes
Defining the infrastructure and utilising it
effectively Defining Roles and
Responsibilities Identifying key outcomes of the
infrastructure Identifying the successes and
challenges in the process
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Where we Were- Audit of Competition Provision
Identifying the infrastructure PDM SSCO PLT
CM CSP DoS HoD LA SDO NGB SSA Opening
communication channels with key
partners- Scenario Who would be involved in the
delivery of a year 6 multisports festival
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Targeted areas

• Priority competitions and target populations
• Key Stage 1
• Key Stage 4
• Transition (post) years

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Case Studies

• SSP A
• PDM/CM shared proposals of competition
• HoD decided best competition format- ownership
• Restablished SSA
• Meet 3x year to share fixtures, results and
  requests for festival weeks
• Results with pupils and increase in inter school
  competition
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• SSP B
• School organised their own competition in netball
• Reluctance to change to periodised structure
• Affected opportunities for pupils to try more
  sports
• Schools have voted with their feet and requested
  the change this year
• As a result school still going to run their
  competition but also compete in SSP leagues

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NGB Case Studies

• Cricket Football
• CM shared proposals of NCF and met with the NGBs
• Reviewed H W competition in those sports
  locally in comparison with national agenda
• Strengthened relationship between SSA and NGB
  resulting in football being the first time this
  has taken place
• Competitions are now taking place as a
  partnership approach, reducing duplication and
  aligning competition into SSP pathways

• NGB X
• Struggle to develop that sport within the county
• Although identified as national priority, not
  suited at a local level
• Not open to compromise in order to address these
  issues

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Intra Competition

• Cross Country
• KS2 year 4, intra competition on own school site?
• Cluster based Inter competition at middle school
  site
• Gifted and talented- high achievers attending
  inter school SSP level event at high school site
• Young leaders
• Local Athletics club coaches

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Inter Competition

• Indoor rowing
• Intra competition- all young people compete at
  school site
• Results fed onto excel spreadsheet
• Fed into CM database- H W competition on a
  virtual basis
• Winners received an on the water experience at a
  local rowing club

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High Quality Competition
Have we achieved this? What is it? Appropriate
Integrated Inclusive In line with the principles
of the NCF How do we measure? Young
leaders PLAYGROUND TO PODIUM Key partners-
realising young peoples potential- local-county
and beyond Sports colleges County ID Georgette
Mullin national champion at UKSG
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