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20 Sept 2024
My Personal Best - Navigating Life Skills Through Sailing
Titan St George’s students developed resilience, respect, and confidence through a six-week sailing program tailored to their needs.
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02 Jun 2025
Meeting the Needs of All Learners: Why Space, Staff and Confidence Matter for Pupils with SEND
At the Youth Sport Trust, we believe every child has the right to access inspiring and meaningful opportunities to be physically active at school through PE, sport and play. For this to be a reality for pupils with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND), we must ensure they have access to appropriate spaces, confident staff, and well-considered and appropriate support ratios to meet their needs.
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29 May 2025
My Personal Best: How PE is Transforming Engagement in Alternative Provision
From confidence and communication to emotional regulation, the My Personal Best programme is helping pupils in PRUs and AP settings thrive and find renewed purpose through PE.
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28 May 2025
Felicity’s Inclusive Youth Leadership Journey
Felicity shares her experience in sport and her opportunity to be a Young Role Model as part of the Inclusive Youth Leadership programme.
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09 May 2025
From “Who Is Losing Learning?” to “Who Is Gaining Learning?”
The Youth Sport Trust is calling on the education sector to reframe the conversation sparked by The Difference’s 2024 report, Who Is Losing Learning?, which revealed a record 32 million days of learning lost in England in 2022/23, driven by rising suspensions and exclusions.
Blog
02 May 2025
Maximising the Role of Teaching Assistants in PE: A Game-Changer for Inclusion
Exploring the latest evidence-based guidance from Education Endowment Foundation on how to effectively train and deploy teaching assistants to transform inclusive PE for pupils with SEND
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10 Apr 2025
Unlocking Inclusive and Active Opportunities for Blackpool's Young People With a Day at the Zoo
Highfurlong School and local mainstream primary schools created an unforgettable day for students at Blackpool Zoo, combining outdoor adventure, physical activity, and cross-curricular learning.
Blog
03 Apr 2025
William Howard School’s Inclusive Multi-Sport Club Fosters Confidence and Community
The afterschool club offers students with a range of additional needs a safe space to build skills, friendships and self-esteem through Boccia, Table Cricket, and New Age Kurling.
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24 Mar 2025
Equipping Educators to Foster Safe and Inclusive School Swimming Programs
The Youth Sport Trust and Swim England have delivered continual professional development courses to educators nationwide through the Inclusion 2024 programme, as part of ongoing efforts to build inclusive school swimming environments for pupils with SEND.
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18 Mar 2025
Meet the Youth Sport Trust's Placemakers
Over the past academic year, the Youth Sport Trust has worked with ‘Placemakers’ who are embedded within their local communities and have a deep understanding of the barriers to participation and specific needs within them.
Blog
25 Feb 2025
Gathering insight to understand local contexts
Over the last 12 months, the Youth Sport Trust has conducted 161 school visits across 20 initial focus areas in order to get a greater understanding of the challenges schools face and the barriers and potential solutions to embedding physical activity within school culture.
Blog
07 Feb 2025
Promoting Inclusive Sport: Fairfield College’s Inclusive Youth Leadership Event
On Wednesday 15th January 2025, Rachel Bown (LIS for Wiltshire & Swindon) hosted Fairfield College’s Inclusive Youth Leadership (IYL) event at The Olympiad Leisure Centre in Chippenham for 30 young people (25 with SEND).
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07 Feb 2025
Emily’s Inclusive Sporting Story
In our most recent blog post, we hear from Emily as she shares her moving story about her Functional Neurological Disorder (FND) and how this has impacted her relationship with sport and movement.