Living For Sport

Living For Sport aims to use the power of sport to engage, motivate and inspire young people to reach their full potential.

Developed in partnership with BSkyB and supported by the Department for Education and Skills (DfES), Living For Sport targets young people aged 11 to 16, who are at risk of opting out of school life, whether through poor attendance or lack of confidence.

Living For Sport uses the spirit of adventure, creativity and commitment that sport can generate to inspire young people and help them to improve attitude and behaviour.

Students work with their teachers and support staff to set personal targets and goals. Our year 10 students took part in kite boarding and trampolining. In conjunction with this they were visited by a sporting hero, Clare Strange, Para Olympic basketball player from the changing LIVES team. She also helped us provide a one off session of wheelchair basketball with our Sports Leaders and A-level students.

The project culminates with a celebration event, recognising and rewarding the young people’s achievements against their set goals. The students decided to go ice skating at the Swindon Link Centre.

One student found the project hugely successful for him and commented that “living for sport made me focus more in lessons which meant I wasn’t getting in to so much trouble each week. Miss Beck goes on to say, “this has been a fantastic project to motivate and reengage these students. And thank you to all staff who have been involved and supported the programme.”