Primary School Development Academies
We offer four popular, well-established after-school development academies for primary schools: Football, Netball, Gymnastics, and Leadership.
Primary schools have the option of running an SSG Academy for a term or throughout the whole academic year, for either the same group or a new group or a mixture of both.
Our ‘academy’ clubs can be administrated by the school or via our online booking platform for no additional charge. Your school can choose to pay direct or set up as a parent-paid option which requires no additional admin.
Football Development Academy
Our Football Development Academy focuses on the following technical skills:
- Shooting
- Dribbling / running with the ball
- Passing
- Goalkeeping
- Phases of attack
- Phases of defence
- Effective team communication
Netball Development Academy
Our Netball Development Academy focuses on the following technical skills:
- Shooting
- Passing
- Goalkeeping
- Phases of attack
- Phases of defence
- Effective team communication
At SSG we are developing additional academies throughout 2020. If your school is looking for a specific sport to be delivered in our academy format, we would like to hear from you.
Gymnastics Development Academy
Our Gymnastics Development Academy focuses on the following technical skills:
- Jumping
- Balances
- Rotations
- Vaults
- Low-level tumbling
Leadership Academy
Our Leadership Academy incorporates the Sports Leaders UK PlayMaker Award and includes the following skills:
- Communication
- Organisation
- Planning and preparation
- Creating games
- Working individually and with others
- Goal setting and motivating others
UNDERSTANDING THE PRIMARY SCHOOLS LANDSCAPE
The introduction of the 2019 Education Inspection Framework means schools are being asked to place a greater emphasis on a knowledge-rich curriculum. Pupils must be challenged and stretched within the schools’ curricula and each school must also be aware of the health (physical & mental) and well-being of each child.
Primary School Development Academies FAQ
SSG active clubs are suitable for pupils in years 1 to 6, however are delivered specifically to KS1 and KS2 pupils separately
Each SSG development academies can cater for up to 20 pupils (although lower ratios may be preferable for certain target groups),
The core objective of all SSG activities is a focus on the positive development and growth of each individual pupil’s character and value education, which we believe is the foundation to ensuring everyone can achieve their potential.
Each development academy then has weekly focuses on the development of new skills through trying different activities and overcoming problems and challenges.
Our development academies are all inclusive, however, they can also target certain groups and specific outcomes if required. Many schools utilise this flexibility to target pupils who may require additional support from a lower level platform or whom are considered more able and need to be progressed further than can be done in a mixed group within school time.
We will need to speak to school to establish whether they are paying directly for the development academy or would like SSG to charge parents directly.
This is dependent on the type of academy and can discussed with the school upon initial consultation and/or booking.
Each development academy runs for a minimum of a term. Schools often run each development academies throughout the whole year for different groups of pupils, on various days, at various times. There is no limit to how you apply SSG development academy in your school.
SSG provide all the required equipment for the development academies.
SSG staff are deployed to deliver development academies they have qualifications and experience within. They are supported by leadership with teaching qualifications and/or specialist qualifications and all SSG staff have extensive internal training and development.
All SSG staff have full DBS certificate, safeguarding, prevent, ethnicity & diversity, health & safety and SEND inclusion training.
SSG active clubs can be administrated by the school or can access our online booking platform for no additional charge. Schools can choose to pay for the development academy direct or set it up as a parent paid option meaning they have no additional administration to manage.