Glasgow School of Sport Bellahouston Academy Glasgow Scotland

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• Glasgow School of Sport Bellahouston
  AcademyGlasgow Scotland
• Future Champions

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Brief History

• Working Party established in 1997
• Broad Investigation of specialist sports
  provision
• School rationalisation programme 1998
• Selection of sports
• Programme starts August 1998

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Scottish Executive Education Department

• Specialist provision provides a challenging
  and demanding education for pupils with special
  talents. It is intended to ensure that such
  pupils are given the best opportunity to develop
  their sporting talents as part of their school
  education.

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Profile

• Host school-Bellahouston Academy
• National Centre for excellence
• Number of sports pupils
• Range of sports
• Catchment area
• Socially Inclusive

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Local Authority representation
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Socially inclusive
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Sports Programmes

• Holistic
• Strong links with school teaching and support
  staff
• High Performance Coaching Team
• Competition
• Training Camps
• Access to national and international facilities

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Staffing

• Director
• Depute Head Teacher (link responsibility)
• Coordinator
• 20 Coaches-HPC, AHPC, Performance Coaches
  
• Conditions of Service CLS

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Support Services

• Strength and Conditioning
• Sports Science
• Sports Medicine
• Transport
• Parent and pupil education programme

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Selection

• Process
• Sport and school
• Later entry opportunities
• Exit routes

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Partners and Pathways

• Funding
• Network of resources and expertise
• Performance Pathway

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Glasgow School of Sport Hockey Pathway
GREAT BRITAIN REPRESENTATION
SCOTTISH SQUADS
SCOTTISH INSTITUTE OF SPORT
DISTRICT AND NATIONAL LEAGUE CLUBS
WEST AREA INSTITUTE OF SPORT
AGE GROUP REPRESENTATIVE SQUADS
GLASGOW SCHOOL OF SPORT
CLUBS
SCHOOLS
Talent Identification
SHU Talent Camps
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Curriculum and Timetable

• Daily sports contact
• 2 year groups timetabled together
• 8 Periods of sport per week increasing to 12
• Reduced time in specific subjects
  
• Qualifications-up to 6 standard grades, 3 or 4
  higher grades
• Higher PE option introduced in 2003
• After school commitment

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S3 Curriculum Choice
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S5/S6 Curriculum Choice 2005
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Progress-pupil

• Performance
• Culture and ethos
• Achievements academically and in their sport
• Monitoring
• Career support-coaching, further study and
  performance support, international links

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Success

• Performance
• Quality services and programmes
• Network of services and opportunities
• Knowledge and experience
• International Opportunities and Exchanges
• Framework of Provision

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The future

• Scotland has fallen well behind other nations
  in world level sport. There is a spirit of
  optimism that this can change, but only if fresh
  ideas can permeate the sports system. Sports
  schools could be part of this new thinking
  Professor Ian Thompson