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Managing Staff in School Sport

Face to Face Event

With Neil Rollings

Dates & Venues

    This is a seminar is for Directors of Sport, Co-Curricular deputies and others whose responsibility includes managing, training and appraising sports staff. It will focus on establishing a sustainable workforce, that matches the requirements of the programme and is able to deliver consistent pupil outcomes. The day will also focus on managing some of the issues that the school sport sector is facing in staffing its programmes.

    • Establishing the staffing requirements of the programme
    • Building the right workforce mix for your environment
    • Creating a staff culture
    • Leading through 360 degrees
    • The place of the peripheral workforce
    • Graduate assistants and peripatetic coaches
    • Specialists v generalists
    • Rewarding co-curricular sport contribution
    • Challenges of school teams
    • Challenges in addition to school teams
    • Managing Saturday sport
    • Induction, accountability and appraisal
    • Future-proofing school sport

    Price

    1 place £219
    2 places £349 
    3 places £449 

    Course runs 10am – 3.30pm. Prices include refreshments, lunch and resources. In the event of you needing to cancel a place on a course, please note we require ten working days' notice. All prices exclude VAT.

    Course Leader

    Neil Rollings

    Neil was Director of Sport in four independent schools, over a 21-year career, and an Independent Schools Inspector. He is leader of the RFU Schools' Project, contributor to the Government Task Force on the Future of PE and member of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on a Fit and Healthy Childhood. He was Chairman of the Professional Association of Directors of Sport in Independent Schools for 15 years, and is Course Director of the University of Buckingham MA programme in Leading School Sport.

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