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Foreward
Over the last ten years New College Leicester, along with our partners, has successfully delivered a sports village framework, placing the college at the heart of our community and at the centre of sports development within Leicester. This strategy allows us to beneft from state of the art sports facilities which are currently unrivalled in the secondary school sector.
Alongside this, we have transformed the education provided here by raising the self-belief and confdence of young people using the provision of high quality physical education and sport. We frmly believe that sport and physical activity not only lead to a healthier physical wellbeing, but also provides wider wellbeing benefts such as instilling a sense of belonging and connection. Sport has the power to excite and inspire us all.
New College Leicester will continue to prioritise sport and physical activity as part of our philosophy of providing an education which prepares our young people for the challenges of the 21st century. Our new priorities for sport and physical activity will focus upon supporting young people’s physical and mental wellbeing alongside developing them as individuals. It is delivering these priorities that will help the college provide a rounded education which will create resilient and confdent young people.
This strategy sets out our vision and objectives for the next fve years in creating a practice of excellence in ensuring that sport and physical activity form a crucial part of our core business at New College Leicester.
The progress made during the implementation of our frst sports strategy, affrms our belief that sport and physical activity have the power to change people’s lives.
Mrs Jane Brown Principal New College Leicester Rory Underwood MBE
Playing sport at any level helps to provide you with a diverse range of values, skills and attributes – all of which have helped to make me the person I am today. The valuable learning which takes place through sport can easily translate into everyday life and the many challenges that it will bring. I combined my 18 years of experience flying jets in the RAF with 12 years of playing rugby for England and use these skills, the knowledge and the experience to support a variety of businesses and organisations throughout the country to build high performing teams.
We all recognise that young people are under enormous pressure in society today, and taking part in sport is a way to release some of this pressure. Sport helps with discipline; encourages team work and clearly plays a major part in keeping young people healthy. The benefts from playing sport are numerous and I am very pleased that New College Leicester has continued to invest in providing opportunities both for their students and the community. This is a school that is at the heart of their community and are making a difference through the power of sport.
What New College Leicester is striving to achieve is a model of practice that could be replicated across the country.
It gives me great pleasure to be an advocate for New College Leicester and their Sport and Physical Activity Strategy 2021-2026.