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LEADERSHIP AWARDS Benton Park want to help people discover their potential and provide an opportunity to share those abilities with others. We use sport because it is popular and accessible, but you don't need to be a sports super star to get involved – just some get up and go and an interest in helping others. Junior Sports Leader AwardJunior Sports Leader Award is offered to year 10 students as part of their core Physical Education programme. The JSLA, operated by the British Sports Trust, helps young people over the age of 14 gain leadership experience through developing generic skills that can be adapted to various sporting situations.
The JSLA consists of two modules, A and B. Module AModule A covers the fundamentals of sports leadership, and which is applicable to a wide variety of sporting and recreational activities. This includes
Module B Junior Sports Leader Award candidates lead for a minimum of one hour of sporting or recreational activity of which they have been the sole planner. These are generally 3 x 20 minute sessions.
Community Sports Leader Award
Benton Park offers Community Sports Leader Award to all students within the Lower Sixth. The CSLA gives people aged 16 and over the skills needed to lead groups in safe sporting and recreational activity. It is an accredited award operated by the British Sports Trust. The majority of the course is practical in nature with an emphasis on learning through doing, rather than through written work.
The Community Sports Leader Award is divided into 8 units which are as follows:
Units 1 – 6 are undertaken in the autumn and spring terms. In the summer term students are given the opportunity to undertake Games and Activity experiences with Year 7 pupils and Primary school pupils. For Unit 8, students are encouraged to find their own placement, however, the school do provide advice and contacts should students require this.
Higher Sports Leader Award Those students who take part in the CSLA then have the opportunity to take the Higher Sports Leaders Award offered by the School Sports Partnership.
Loughborough University Each year the school sports partnership offer two places on a 4-day sports leadership camp at Loughborough University . A Benton Park student, James Scott, took one of these places in 2006
Step Into Sport Year 12 students have the opportunity to become Step Into SportCommunityVolunteers and aim to achieve 50 (bronze), 100 (silver) or 200 (gold) voluntary leadership hours to gain an award.
‘Young Olympic Ambassador’ Each year the school sports partnership offer two ‘Young Olympic Ambassador’ places to Y12 students in the partnership. Benton Park students Libby Aspden and James Scott, took these places in 2006 and went to South Africa to develop sports leadership in a secondary school in Zululand . |
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