What are school-club links?
School sport has in recent years suffered due to the pressures placed on schools from the ever-changing national curriculum, financial constraints and limited time. Therefore both the number of hours available for PE and for after school sports clubs has in some schools diminished, leaving an opportunity for local sports clubs help to provide quality-sporting opportunities for young people.
In order to assist in the provision of these additional sporting opportunities clubs are encouraged to make contact with their local Partnership Development Manager. By making contact, the club and Partnership Development Manager can discuss the schools sporting opportunities and identify how the club and school can work together to complement the school sports programme and increase opportunities for pupils.
A school-club link could be defined as an agreement between a school and a community based sports club to work together to meet the needs of young people, providing them with new and varied opportunities and help them to realise their ambitions. It is also a mechanism for agreeing good standards of provision.
“School-Club links” is a term often used in strategic documents, grant applications and general discussion within Sports Development/PE and School Sport and National Governing Body Organisations. It is becoming more and more used and there is a great need for schools and clubs to work more closely together – if only just in communication!
Many young people take part in school sport, but there are fewer who take part in activities outside of school. And after they leave compulsory education most young people do not take part in any form of regular sport of physical activity at all.
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