Sports Colleges Conference 2011

Achieving the Impossible

Wednesday 9 and Thursday 10 February 2011
The International Centre, Telford

The 2011 Sports Colleges Conference is focused on Sports Colleges as centres of excellence. With over 500 schools with a sport specialism at the heart of 450 School Sport Partnerships, the conference will showcase exciting and innovative work, with inpirational ideas about how to maximize learning and achievement for young people in the new education and sporting landscape.

The conference is aimed at headteachers, directors of specialism and subject leaders in Sports Colleges, Academies with a sport-related specialism, non-Sports College hub sites, and other schools which feel they may benefit from attending the conference.

A detailed programme and online booking will be available in November.

Following delegate feedback from the 2010 conference, the 2011 conference will feature:

Seminars – short presentations delivered by practitioners on a theme or subject relevant to our audience of headteachers, directors of specialism and/or PE subject leaders focused on a piece of work the school has planned, and/or delivered to share practice pertinent to one of the five Sports College principles.

Networking – an informal area which provides the opportunity for structured learning conversations facilitated by practitioners from our school network, collecting case studies relevant to the five principles and the interactive website zone to help guide you through the Youth Sport Trust websites and online resources.

Targeted sessions – bespoke sessions for a specific targeted audience planned to address the challenges and needs of the specific cohort and delivered by Youth Sport Trust staff with support from partner organisations.

Continued features include keynote presentations from high profile speakers from the world of sport. Workshops, mini-keynotes and question time sessions also continue this year. A specialist exhibition will be open throughout the conference featuring a wide array of PE sport products and services. The Gala Dinner will feature the national recognition and innovation awards ceremony plus evening entertainment.  

Young people as performers

Do you have outstanding performers – singers, bands, dancers, gymnasts or performing artists – at your school? Have young people at your school got an aspiration to perform at a big event? If so we’re currently looking for young performers for the conference. For more information please visit the Sports Colleges area of the School Sport Xchange.

Innovation Awards 2011

There will be three Innovation Awards for 2011. These are:

• Embedding the specialism to close the gap in whole school attainment
• Innovative practice in core Physical Education at Key Stage 4
• Using the specialism to drive learning with targeted sectors of the wider community

A prize will be given to the winning school in each of the four categories during the Gala Dinner. Schools will be asked to submit a short application in one of the four award categories by 17 December 2010. Judging will take place in January 2011 by a panel including the sponsors, Youth Sport Trust staff and external partners.

Click here for information on the Innovation Awards.

Exhibiting at the conference? Please click here.