Sue Shelswell National Schools

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Sue ShelswellNational Schools Junior Clubs
Manager.

• 15th March 2006.

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Presentation to Development Board

• Resources to support young player development.
• Academy Schools.
• Affiliation
• Competition Managers a National Initiative.
• PESSCL.

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Resources to support young player development BIG
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Bisi Games Ideas Activities
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Leadership awards exam support
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Academy Schools

• 6 schools now designated
• Witchford VC, Ely
• Brierton Community School and Sports College,
  Hartlepool
• Bower Park School and Sports College, Essex
• The Deanes School and Sports College, Essex
• King Arthur's Community School and Sports
  College, Wincanton, Somerset
• Wilson's School, Wallington, Surrey
• 5-6 in the process of presenting their
  application
• Sponsorship to support the programme in active
  talks.
• Monitoring and Evaluation and Support Guidance
  for Officer support being written
• The programme is a highlighted case study in the
  new High Quality school to Club Links DfES /DCMS
  National Document
• Innovation Award date for entries is July 2006
• Annual open day to be at the NBC in November
  each year.

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Affiliation -

• Target numbers for December 2005 50 affiliated
  members
• To date 84 schools have affiliated, and 54
  School Sports Partnerships a total of 138.
• 3 mail outs have been sent, the final package is
  set for May, with a reminder for the following
  year and benefits package in July.
• Huge opportunity to convey National information,
  an extra tool for communication.
• Next steps must be to work as closely as we can
  with the County Badminton Associations the
  programme is intended to compliment and support
  local activity.
• Counties will receive 8 per affiliation in March
• All Affiliated schools are eligible to apply for
  Academy School status.
• All new resources have been priced to offer
  attractive reductions in cost to Affiliated
  Schools and Partnerships and further reductions
  for academy schools.

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Competition Managers a National Initiative to
support competition from school through to elite
play.

• Badminton now entering the 7th month of the
  Competition Managers being in post.
• Focus of work to provide a schools competition
  framework which will lead into County activity
  and beyond.
• 20 Competition Managers appointed in September
  2005, 50 more to be announced shortly, with a
  further 90 by the end of 2006, giving full SSP
  coverage by 2007/8
• 5 County Sports Partnerships and 20 School Sports
  Partnerships involved in this initial pilot W
  Yorkshire, Greater Manchester, Hampshire, Sussex
  and Cornwall.
• Thus far all 20 managers have selected Badminton
  to be among their chosen starting sports.
• RDMs and BDOs are instrumental in supporting this
  work.
• Meeting on 22/23rd March to consider the
  Framework in terms of Inclusion
• All activities/resources are in place but
  awaiting final response from the pilot to present
  more professionally.

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PESSCL

• A Key Target for BADMINTON England
• Badminton considered to be achieving excellent
  progress.
• Target for School Club Links and number of Junior
  Participants has been greatly exceeded, and we
  are now on the last effort to realise the target
  number of 60 clubs by the end of March 2006.
• Badminton has been asked now been asked twice to
  present at national PESSCL meetings with regard
  to reporting, resources and best practice in
  working with partners/school and club links.
• DfES and DCMS attended the Academy schools launch
  a really successful day with DfES and DCMS
  Officers very impressed with the high quality
  delivery and provision, both of the day and the
  programme.
• BDOs and RDMs working hard to support PESSCL
  progress again we must look to communicate
  work together with the County Associations and
  CSPs.

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• Thank you!