UK Coaching is today (20 June) joining the Youth Sport Trust and Sky Sports to help young people and families up and down the country engage in a week of virtual sporting challenges.
We will be helping the Youth Sport Trust to reach young people and families by providing advice and guidance on how to deliver great sessions wherever you are.
With young people set to miss out on a School Sports Day this summer, the Youth Sport Trust’s annual National School Sport Week campaign is this year being opened up to parents and families and reinvented as National School Sport Week at Home.
UK Coaching knows how important sport and physical activity is for children and young people, and coaches are central to this. Of the three million people coaching in the UK on a regular basis, many coach children in and out of school, and they have continued to be there to support children during lockdown.
UK Coaching is here to support coaches to master new skills and learn how to deliver effective virtual or social distance-based activities. We know that many coaches have still been operating in schools where key worker children are remaining in lessons, and these coaches have helped to keep sport and physical education a priority at this time.
Parents too have become Home Coaching Heroes, and coaches have continued to keep connected with parents and children throughout the lockdown period, providing innovative ways to keep on coaching so no child misses the opportunity to experience great coaching.
Taking place from 20 to 26 June, the UK-wide campaign will give families, communities, schools and sports clubs the chance to capture the enjoyment, competition and camaraderie they have been missing out on during weeks of school closures and social distancing.
UK Coaching will be supporting the campaign by sharing the Youth Sport Trust’s content through its social channels, as well as signposting parents and coaches to its learning and development platform – ukcoaching.org; where they will find the best coaching hints and tips to support their children during the school sport week and beyond, including four new infographics to help coaches return to coaching under the current Government Covid-19 guidelines.