educational solutions
PROGRAMMES FOR SCHOOLS 2023/24
Community Group specialise in aiding the enrichment, wellbeing and health of our communities through wide-ranging and exceptional opportunities.
In partnership with schools, we are giving pupils access to opportunities both in the classroom and on the sports field through our Educational Solutions. Currently working alongside more than 160 education providers across six counties, our Programmes For Schools 2023/24 are varied and diverse, aimed at benefiting all students, no matter their background.
In developing sporting, wellbeing and community programmes for all, education providers help to increase the opportunities available to their students, in turn helping to support the full range of benefits we know to be so closely aligned to physical activity.
We appreciate that schools can face barriers at times and it’s not always easy to see the right step forward. At Community Group, we help schools take those steps, helping to build a sustainable, healthy and active future for all.
SUPPORTING SOLUTIONS
Clubs
We provide breakfast, lunchtime and after-school clubs with the aim being to ensure children are given the best possible opportunity to experience a healthy, positive and constructive day. Activities involving agility, balance and co-ordination are delivered by our coaches, with the potential for healthy food provision.
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Staff CPD
We strive to support all children partaking in daily physical activity, supported by confident and competent staff within schools. The need for autonomous delivery within our educational providers is key for providing long lasting relationships with healthy lifestyles, for both students and staff. We are committed to upskilling and mentoring staff with their rugby delivery, helping to boost confidence in delivering such skills as the tackle and scrum, while supporting more experienced coaches with our mentoring programme.
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Literacy and Numeracy Support
An integral part of our Schools Offers over the last few years have been our literacy and numeracy programmes. These are delivered in the full range of educational providers and focus on supporting the learner’s journey in upskilling their literacy and/or numeracy skills, while providing positive role modelling and mentoring throughout the programme.
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Event Planning and Logistics
Our coaches deliver sports activity days, with multi-sport activities delivered for all ages and abilities. These are often delivered with a multitude of local schools in festival formats.
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School Sport Camps
We have the ability, and experience, to run a camp at your school either exclusively for your students or the wider community. The school will host the camp, but we take it from there with our coaches running and managing the delivery.
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Coaching and Team Support
We bring a wealth of experience in leading and supporting sports delivery within schools. Whether this is supporting school staff to deliver curriculum timetables or leading your school’s teams, we ensure a first-class delivery of positive and meaningful experiences.
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SEN/PRU
We are experienced in delivering into a range of schools, including SEN, PRU and APS settings. With a range of support from one-to-one mentoring to group engagement sessions, our staff work with the schools in behavioural intervention aiming to support students by means of relationship building and physical activity.
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Mentoring
We are experienced in supporting students with a range of needs through mentoring within the educational setting. We offer both one-to-one sessions and focussed group work. Whether it is a bespoke experience for your learners, or one of our hugely popular off-the-shelf offerings, our staff take the time to really understand the needs of the learner, supporting them in identifying goals and reaching potential.
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SOLUTIONAL BENEFITS
Improved Attendance
Several of our current school offers correlate with the reporting of improved numbers of attendance. With our approach to supporting learners both physically and holistically, it allows for our staff to coach the person and not just the player. By taking a more rounded view to people development, it gives the learner a greater chance to flourish in areas such as confidence, resilience, and character.
Behavioural Change
Our content and delivery are delivered with the Rugby Football Union’s Core Values placed at the very heart of it. Our focus on values such as Teamwork, Respect, Enjoyment, Discipline, and Sportsmanship allows us to support learners through a myriad of personal challenges. Our schemes of work place the learner at the centre of what we do whilst incorporating the individual needs of each child.
Healthy Lifestyles
Supporting communities in engaging with, and then continuing healthy lifestyles is of the utmost importance and we are aware that a healthy lifestyle is not just about keeping active, but it is understanding and delivering on the importance of other areas such as mental health, nutrition and diets, along with socio-economic constraints.
Coaching Support and Education
For our communities to become self-sufficient and autonomous in leading healthy lifestyles, we recognise our role in educating and upskilling those we work with. We want to ensure that support networks such as staff and parents are offered the opportunities to engage in activity too, thus becoming micro-ambassadors for healthy living. As well as being role models, there is also the need for these support networks to help accommodate young people’s opportunities to live more physically active lifestyles, whilst for others it will be around education and guidance.
60 Minutes of Daily Exercise
We fully endorse and support the School Sport and Activity Action Plan’s recommendation of 60-minutes of physical activity a day. We believe in offering our learners a multitude of activities to help achieve this goal of 60-minutes, whilst also letting them explore their interests in a variety of multi-sports. This concurrently aids their development in a more rounded manner.
Positive Role Models
Our staff do not just deliver, but role model positive behaviours and values. Rugby is a sport for all, and our inclusive approach to engagement ensures every child has the opportunity and support to get involved, develop and achieve.
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