Junior Athlete Education (JAE)18/10/2007 - Neil Tysoe |
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Key features of JAE in schools are: •Support workshops for talented young athletes. •A workshop for their parents. •Mentor support from identified staff in school. JAE workshops cover aspects of lifestyle management, target setting and planning, to give young people skills to balance their schedules of school and sport. Sports colleges and their school sport partnerships are targeted yearly to be trained to implement and deliver JAE. Schools implementing the programme often work closely with local, regional or national governing bodies of sport (NGBs), clubs, school sport associations and other organisation or agencies. To enable young athletes to maximise their sporting and academic potential, JAE encourages schools to work with the pupils, their parents and coaches to reduce conflict between education and sport. Two different types of training are necessary for staff in schools and school clusters wishing to implement JAE (the same staff do not need to attend both courses): •One-day JAE workshop deliverers training •Two-day JAE mentor training JAE aims to support talented young sports people on the gifted and talented (G&T) registers of schools within school sports partnerships. Key staff in their schools are identified to be trained to deliver the two strands of JAE: workshop delivery and mentoring. Trained staff can then deliver JAE support workshops to identified talented young sports people in their school sport partnership, or become JAE mentors to further support these talented young sports people. School sports partnerships can benefit from JAE in their schools by: •Proper identification of pupil’s needs. •Helping to balance commitments in school and sport, by giving pupils lifestyle management, target setting and planning skills. •Networking with parents and coaches to reduce conflict between school and sport demands. •Forecasting potential school and sport conflicts before it’s to late. •Informing whole-school policies on provision and support for talented young sports people, as well as good identification methods and techniques. •Using a similar model of support for all G&T pupils in their schools, showing the impact of the sports specialism. •Encourage G&T reform to raise standards through the sports specialism. Talent Development Programme 07-8 Bedford and Kempston Partnership Junior Athlete Education (J.A.E) Biddenham Senior Group-Y10-13 13th Sept Intro.:Y10 only. 11th Oct FUNdamentals. 22nd Nov Workshop 1. 17th Jan Physical Enhancement. 21st Feb Masterclass – Training. 27th March Workshop 2. 24th April * Masterclass – Psychology. 23rd May Workshop 3. 14th June Outdoor Ed. 5th July Physical Enhancement. 12th July Workshop 4-Parents. All meetings on Thursdays at Biddenham . Start at 3.30p.m.Finish 4.45. Outdoor Ed on Saturday 14th June. *At University of Bedfordshire. |
