Girls Active Regional Centre/WISPA
The Crown Hills School Sport Partnership has been designated by the Youth Sport Trust as one of seven Norwich Union GirlsActive Regional Centres. Regional Centre status has been assigned following our involvement in the programme since 2007 when girls from St Paul's RC School attended a national roadshow with Partnership Development Manager Sarah Lansdowne and SSCo Syreena Pinel. The Partnership subsequently received a visit from Dame Kelly Holmes due to the winning action plan written by the girls from St Pauls following their day with Dame Kelly Holmes.
Norwich Union GirlsActive is designed to empower teenage girls to enjoy more sporting activity on their own terms, making positive choices and being given a voice. It is also about enabling young people to make a positive contribution to their schools. Girls are challenged to come up with ideas on what they would change in their own schools in order to make sporting activity something they would want to participate in.
Norwich Union GirlsActive has been a huge success at St Paul's and has been linked to our establish annual Women in Sport and Physical Activity (WISPA) conference. Regional Centre status will enable us to broaden the impact of the GirlsActive programme and the WISPA conference significantly.
The Norwich Union GirlsActive Regional Centres will be a joint approach between the Sports College and the School Sport Partnership. Crown Hills Community and Sports College (in partnership with Rushey Mead Science and Sports College) will lead on High Quality PE and curriculum innovation work and the School Sport Partnership will drive the implementation and innovation of an agreed delivery plan to increase girls' participation.
As a hub site for girls' issues in sport across the region, we will be ensuring that the good practice developed is shared and disseminated across the region through both local and regional networks.
The School Sport Partnership has been tasked with:
- Reaching 3000+ girls aged 13-16 through GirlsActive work within your region
- Acting as a hub site for girls issues in sport across the region
- Developing of innovation through GirlsActive to share and disseminate across other SSPs
- Ensuring all schools within SSP have GirlsActive as a leading piece of work and leading the way around girls participation issues
