Sport Cheshire are looking for an individual who is passionate about people development? Do you relish the opportunity to lead engagement with a wide range of partners so that we have the very best coaches, volunteers and club representatives to make sport across Cheshire flourish? If so, we need to hear from you!

You will need to be an excellent project manager, who has experience of hitting challenging targets, so that we can deliver the national Sport Makers scheme locally. You will also play a pivotal role in developing a world-leading coaching system in England, putting your mark on the development of our local Coaching Support Network to support coaches at a community level across Cheshire & Warrington. You will be a first class communicator, able to get the very best from your talented staff team, and can effortlessly maintain relationships with a wide range of partners. For more details on this vacancy please visit this link.

Read the DCMS publication Creating a Sporting Habit for Life

The following links provide wider reading about these announcements:

Sport England press release

Sport England – School Games Funding

Guardian Report on Defence of Olympic Legacy

Labour – School Sport coordinators should be Retained

Funding for School Sports Clubs

How will improvements in participation and engagement for young people aged 5-19 be measured?

Are there any targets?

What could be the impact of reductions to the capacity of School Sport Partnerships.

Such issues were debated recently in the house of commons.  For any analysis and to see videos of aspects of the debate click here

YA 2012 evening poster – individuals and organisations

YA evening students poster – information for new YAs , Adistars and SSOC members

Map to UoC Warrington Campus

Map of Warrington Campus showing Lance Dobson Lecture Theatre

The event will start with a welcome address and speech from Barney Storey, MBE (2 x Paralympic Gold Medallist in track cycling) who will share his experiences as a top athlete with us and explain what it takes to ‘be your best’.

The Young Ambassadors will take part in short workshops at which they will take part in training supporting them to undertake their Young Ambassador or School Sport Organising Committee roles.  During this time, the adults (parents, organisation representatives) will enjoy performances from Penketh High School and Warrington Gym Club before working with Barney and supporters of the Young Ambassador programme to discuss how the ambitions of these young people can be supported.

For further information or to request a space at this free event as an organisational representative, please contact Paula Pearson on 07572419478

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Writing in this week’s Scrubbing Up column, leading sports medicine specialist Dr Andy Franklyn-Miller warns that the physical competence of future generations is being put at risk because of a failure to give PE the same priority as other subjects in the school curriculum.

He contrasts the support that is available for children who struggle in maths or English with the approach to physical development, cardiovascular fitness and co-ordination – elements of what he calls “physical literacy”.

“Let us achieve future success now by building in a PE curriculum that embraces push, pull, squat, brace, rotate, accelerate and change of direction.”

Dr Franklyn-Miller argues that there should be compulsory tests for these skills at each of the key stages as children progress through school.

“Let it be competitive and let us test our children against each other and identify those who need support from the network of physicians trained in sport and exercise medicine as an existing Olympic legacy.”

Start to Move

The call coincides with an announcement by the Youth Sport Trust that it will train thousands of primary school teachers across England in specialist PE skills.

The charity’s new Start to Move programme, funded by private medical firm Bupa, offers free training and support – focusing on the same principles of physical literacy rather than particular sports. The aim is to reach all primary schools in England in the next three years.

But its chief executive, Baroness Sue Campbell, is against the idea of testing.

“Whilst I’m all for assessment, all for challenge, all for encouraging the best to develop and supporting the less capable to catch up, I think if you introduced very rigorous testing in the way that’s being described, I think that could have quite a negative impact on some children.”

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International Inspiration aims to deliver on the Games’ bid promise to ‘reach young people all over the world and connect them to the inspirational power of the Games, so they are inspired to choose sport’. Working in countries all over the world, International Inspiration aims to use sport as a positive force to enrich the lives of over 12 million young people.

Megan will be travelling to Tanzania in 3 weeks time to spend time in training local people so that they have the skills and knowledge necessary to run volleyball programmes in their own communities and to inspire people to do something positive through sport.

No doubt Megan will have an amazing time and is sure to get as many people loving the sport in Africa as she has already in Warrington!  We wish her all the best and hope she’ll come back with plenty of pictures and information to share with us.

Read more about the International Inspiration project here

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/othersports/schoolsports/8823897/Dont-take-sport-away-from-children.html