Year 2 Active Sports

Hockey

The Active Sports / Uniting the Hockey family programme will provide wide ranging quality opportunities in hockey for young people aged 10-15, including an introduction to club-based hockey for years 6 (top primary) to 10 through festivals, leagues and local coaching centres. The benefits to hockey include:

  • Development work with clubs to ensure they are better able to meet the needs of the young people who wish to play hockey in both the short and the long term

  • More concentrated activities for those in the Under 13 and Under 15 age range who are identified as having talent in the sport and want to improve, with nationally led assessment guidelines and coaching programmes

  • Volunteer recruitment, training and development programmes (for coaches, umpires, administrators and leaders) to ensure suitably trained people are available to ensure the quality of all aspects of the programme.

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Swimming

Active Sports / Whole Sport plan Swimming aims to provide better coaching and competition for young people aged 8-12 so that all young swimmers receive a sufficient quantity and quality of coaching and competition to help them develop their personal potential.   The programme will provide equal opportunities for both boys and girls and will seek to encourage young people from black, Asian and other ethnic minority communities to become involved in swimming. It will also make the sport accessible to young people from low income families and will address opportunities for young people with a disability.

Improving the quality of coaching and competition and bringing new young people into the sport will benefit swimming by widening the potential pool of talented swimmers and by introducing more young people into membership of swimming clubs.
 
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Tennis

Active Sports / Whole Sport Tennis aims to provide better coaching and competition opportunities for young people. This will ensure all young players receive a sufficient quantity and quality of coaching and competition to help them achieve their personal potential. The specific outcomes of Active Sports Tennis will be:

  • Equity
    Increasing the numbers of young people from priority groups participating in tennis, widening the talent and the volunteer base; making specific provision for young disabled people

  • Club Development
    Identifying and assisting tennis clubs in developing quality junior programmes and/or creating new 'clubs' in parks and schools where tennis clubs do not exist or where tennis clubs do not exist or where current provision is poor. The aim is to introduce more, and attract a wider range of, young people to playing tennis in 'club' environments.

  • Local coaching development
    Improving the quality of coaching available for young players via the 'club' network. Talent development: Identifying and assessing talented players aged 7-13 at an early stage. Providing selected players with further coaching and competition opportunities via the delivery of a consistent and quality-assured series of Area Development Squads at 9 and under and 13 and under age groups.

  • Local competition opportunities Developing new competition opportunities for Partnership squad players Coaches, officials and volunteers: Increasing the quantity and quality of coaches, officials and volunteers working with young people at local level, in particular identifying local coaches to work in Active Sports tennis and providing them with continuous professional development (CPD) opportunities, and improving the quality and number of qualified referees in the local community.