- Constable keen to discuss a sporting record of achievement initiative with community sports officers.
- Scheme would allow achievements to be tracked throughout school careers and beyond.
- Will this lead to greater sporting success in the future? Have your say below.
CHILDREN in Jersey could soon have individual ‘sports passports’ to track progression throughout their time at school.
Constable Steve Pallett, the politician responsible for sport, believes a record of achievement that archives children’s capabilities in a sporting environment would allow for consistency across the Island’s schools, and that it would provide greater understanding by teachers when the transition is made from Primary to Secondary.
‘It is important that there is a consistent approach to sports development for all school children to ensure they all have an equal opportunity,’ said Pallet. ‘And recording a child’s achievement through a ‘passport’ could provide the necessary reassurance.
‘If a record was kept of what sports children are playing at school then when they move from Primary to Secondary the PE staff at the secondary school can understand the level each individual has achieved.
Although the potential scheme is still to be discussed in detail, the Constable says it would be ideal to ‘measure the success’ achieved by the likes of the Sport Development department, led by Dave Kennedy.
‘It is important that there is a consistent approach to sports development for all school children’
‘We want to attract kids from the moment they go into school to moment they leave, and clearly Sports Development is best placed to do that with the resources we have, including specialist officers delivering the curriculum at a very high standard alongside the teachers,’ said Kennedy.
‘We need to know what we’re doing in schools is having impact outside of school, so if we’ve got the opportunity to map kids’ progression it would be fantastic.’
The Constable also said that he would like to improve the link between schools and sports clubs, and that the initiative could allow for a record of non-curricular achievements (such as Island representation) to be kept.
