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‘Cornwall Playing for Success helps children achieve their best by using sport to bridge the gap between education and unrealised potential.
Pete Goss, Founding Trustee |
PFS
PfS Aims
- To use the motivation of sport to improve young people’s attitudes to learning and motivation in school
- To link the sports-themed sessions to the National Curriculum in numeracy, literacy and ICT
- To promote and develop healthy and active lifestyles: an understanding of good citizenship and respect for the environment
- To build young people’s confidence and self esteem
How does it work?
- Schools select pupils through identification criteria provided by the centre
- Students attend the centres after school – attendance is voluntary
- Students typically attend for a 2-3 hour session each week for a 10 week period
Impact
National evaluation results have shown that attending PfS for one term improved primary pupils’ numeracy scores by approximately 17 months and secondary pupils’ by approximately 24 months.
During 2007/2008 a study of Playing for Success was completed across Cornwall. The findings - although on a small cohort of entrants in the year 2007 - found that the sample data indicates that PfS is having a positive impact on attainment and progress with considerable improvements in reading, writing and mathematics for the PfS cohort, compared with the total population. In mathematics, 14% made no progress, 66% made one level’s progress and 20% made two level’s progress.
The ‘07 cohort (85.2% achieving at least a level 4) exceeded county (83.7) and national (84.0) performance in reading. 38% of the cohort achieved a level 5. 90% of the pupils in the PfS cohort, who were at risk of underachieving, matched the national expectation for progress in the three areas and 32% exceeded national expectation.
