Hull FC Foundation Partner Schools Programme (Primary and Secondary)

The partner schools programme offer the opportunity for schools to receive coaching all-year round from Hull FC foundation staff. Schools can choose from a range of engagement packages designed to offer support to Sport and Physical Education within schools that include many added benefits to the school such as, player visits, stadium tours, memberships, and much more. This can support the health element of your PSHE Education curriculum. We cover topics such as Mental Wellbeing, Physical Health & Fitness, Healthy Eating, Careers Education and Overcoming Challenges.

Through the Partner Schools Sport scheme, the Hull FC Community Foundation offer a programme that will enhance and develop the sports skills of children in schools by delivering a varied menu of activities that allows youngsters to experience different sports and learn new skills. Each programme that is delivered is specific to each individual school, meaning the school can tailor-make the sessions to effectively benefit their students. The Foundation also deliver staff CPD sessions as part of each programme to help ensure that our delivery is sustainable and so that the teachers build confidence, experience different sports and learn new skills too.

Change 4 Life Clubs

Change4Life Sports Clubs aim to encourage less active children to do more physical activity and to engage in school. Hull School Games Organisers, working with Hull FC Community Foundation, support primary schools to establish Change4Life ‘Inspired’ Sports Clubs and embed them at the heart of school life. They seek to enable children to develop healthy hearts, happy hearts, social hearts and successful hearts. Primary clubs develop fundamental movement skills and capture the essence of the sport without directly delivering sport-specific content, and are grouped under five multi-sport themes: adventure, creative, combat, flight and target.

Sky Try

Sky Try Primary Rugby League is delivery  in  clusters  of  primary  schools located around selected community clubs targeting  8-9  year  olds  (Key  Stage 2). Each Primary school will receive a minimum of 5 weeks consecutive coaching, followed by a recruitment event such as  an  assembly  or  participation  festival. All  Primary teachers in the Sky Try project will be offered CPD. Sky Try Secondary is aimed at increasing local opportunities for secondary school  pupils to play Rugby League, either for the first time or to assist in providing  more regular opportunities for students at Key Stage 3 (years 7-9) to play.

For further information, please contact richard.tate@hullfc.com

Inspiring Futures

‘Inspiring Futures’ comprises three strands which use Rugby League as a catalyst to engage young people aged 11 to 14 in crime prevention work in the classroom, local community, and with their families.

The Hull FC Community Foundation will deliver the project within their local authority area, promoting positive, aspirational messages to large groups of young people through to targeted interventions for those identified as high risk of engaging in crime. The projects strands are:

‘Educate’: Hull FC Community Foundation coaches will deliver a preventative assembly programme to young people in Years 7, 8, and 9 in Secondary Schools. The programme will entail four, skills-based sessions which promote self-esteem, communication, teamwork, and wellbeing and will be presented using media involving Hull FC Professional Rugby League players conveying preventive focused messages.

Trained coaches will work with schools to offer a community-based twelve week mentoring programme to identified young people who are demonstrating behavioural issues, entailing two after-school forty-five minute sessions per week.

‘Connect’: Recognising the importance of strong family relationships in preventing young people engaging in crime and violence, ‘Connect’ offers a family therapy programme which will involve a multi partnership approach alongside local authorities and schools to refer at-risk children into the programme. Based from local settings and delivered by trained coaches, families will engage in twelve, sixty minute sessions that enable them to develop resilience skills that support their family unit.

‘Aspire: Hull FC Community Foundation coaches will work with crime prevention agencies to offer two hours of community based sports interventions, three evenings per week, targeting anti-social behaviour hotspots utilising community assets such as multi-use game areas. Whilst sports provision will be the engagement vehicle, holistic activity that supports participants wellbeing will be offered, including young leaders’ qualifications which will equip participants with the skills to volunteer within other projects, acting as role models to younger children.

Richard Tate, Hull FC Community Foundation richard.tate@hullfc.com

01482 304260