Sainsbury's Hub's of Excellence - Projects - Sir John Hunt SSP

Sainsbury's Hub's of Excellence

WHAT IS IT?

Sainsbury’s TOP Activity Hubs of Excellence project is an opportunity for school sport partnerships and sports colleges to provide targeted support for their least active 7–11 year olds to engage them in regular physical activity in order to make progress towards achieving the five-hour offer.

It also provides a catalyst to develop the skills and experience of young leaders through appropriate training, new opportunities to gain volunteering hours and meaningful deployment within out-of-school hour’s settings.What will Hubs of Excellence do?

The schools invited to take part in the project will be encouraged to build on the expertise they have previously gained in targeting hard to reach groups through delivery of the Sainsbury’s MEND (Mind, Exercise, Nutrition and Diet)programme and other targeted interventions.

They will be need to innovate through providing appropriate training and support to their local team of deliverers in partner primary schools and share their experiences with the wider school sport network through case studies and workshops.

Each Hub is expected to develop and support a team of Sainsbury’s TOP Activity trained leaders led by a tutor trained Hubs of Excellence Champion. The Champion attends national training and development opportunities in order to be able to identify, recruit and train lead teachers in 12 local primary schools and a team of young leaders in the delivery of Sainsbury’s TOP Activity.

Each of the 12 lead teachers commit to running a Sainsbury’s TOP Activity club for a minimum of 18 weeks over the school year with the support of their trained young leader(s). The clubs do not have to be run on school sites or by school teachers but do have to be targeted specifically at the least active 20% of 7-11 year olds and delivered by a trained Sainsbury’s TOP Activity leader.

In order to ensure sustained changes in exercise behaviours it is also essential that all the children who do participate in the Sainsbury’s TOP Activity clubs are supported to access other appropriate activity sessions either in the school or in the community so that they can continue to exercise regularly after the project ends.

For further information please contact our Hubs of excellence champion Lance Chatfield.

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