Athletic Development
Days are a fun way to measure pupil’s athletic abilities and introduce fun and
engaging long term athletic development programmes (LTAD) to schools.
As if this new
partnership wasn't exciting enough, as a 20th anniversary year offer, any
school who works with Playforce in 2018 will be able to access one of these
days free of charge.
During the day GCP
coaches will deliver a range of challenges and fun sessions to the whole
school, measure performance and hold a briefing session with school staff.
The sessions will
enable schools to:
- Measure the athletic
abilities of pupils
- Engage children of all
abilities in fun fitness sessions
- Build pupil’s confidence to
try new activities and engage in a variety of sports
- Highlight areas to include in
schools’ health and wellbeing strategy
- Help to identify where your
PE and Sport Premium could be used for maximum impact
- Provide a benchmark
measurement from which to evidence improvement
- Identify sporting talent
Founded in 2015 by
Director Jake Keeling, GCP have established themselves as one of the UK’s
leading sports performance companies. Having already agreed partnerships around
the UK with a range of Universities, Colleges, Non-Elite Teams and more
recently the Professional Footballers Association at St Georges Park, the
opportunity to work in partnership with Playforce on the delivery of athletic
development days for their partner schools was something the company jumped at
the chance to get involved with.
Jake said: “Teaming
up with Playforce is hugely exciting for us. We’ve been exploring the primary
school market for the past 12 months by working with a select group of primary
schools across Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire.
"Our Physical
Performance Coaches have been running specialist athletic development testing
days where we were able to get some great data on the pupils by capturing their
physical literacy scores. The days are great fun! Pupils and teachers really engaged
with the challenges and assessments.
"Our coaches
have also really enjoyed working with a broad range of children within schools
we have been working with. Following the testing days our Coaches have then
been delivering blocks of sessions from our long term athletic development
syllabus within PE lessons and also running after school physical performance
clubs for schools. This service is very different to the norm that is delivered
in schools across the UK via traditional sports specific coaching companies and
we feel very passionately that our programmes can really help pupils to improve
their physical literacy, fundamental movement skills and overall health and
athletiscm."
Emily Northin is
Director of Marketing for Playforce, the UK’s leading supplier of outdoor play
and sports facilities to schools and nurseries.
She said: “We are
thrilled to be working alongside GCP to offer this fantastic Athletic
Development service to Playforce customers.
"As we
celebrate our 20th anniversary this year, we wanted to offer our customers a
little something extra to underline our commitment to provide children with the
very best opportunities to get fit and active from an early age. Our
partnership also allows us to provide a unique offer to schools across the UK,
not only developing outstanding outdoor facilities for sport and play, but also
providing the specialist guidance through GCP to make sure that pupils get the
most sustainable impact from the school’s investment.”
Kevin Paxton, GCP
Physical Performance Consultant worked with Playforce to help shape the
partnership.
“Shaping this
programme with Playforce has been great," he said. "From the get go
Playforce understood our point of difference from sports specific coaching
companies that also work with schools.
"For us this
was key as it also therefore meant they really saw it as a great opportunity to
introduce a new type of programme into schools. At GCP we deliver fun,
challenging and engaging long term athletic development programmes for
children. The team at GCP are really looking forward to working with
Playforce’s partner schools around the UK. Excitingly we are also going to be
working with the team at Playforce to help design the next generation of
equipment for schools. Our hopes are that through this partnership we can
really help to have a great impact on the primary school children’s health
& fitness around the UK.”
