The Sports Campus will allow students to experience being active in an enjoyable and more diverse and interesting way, with greatly improved curriculum continuity. It will also create other opportunities:

Improved Opportunities: The Sports Campus will offer access to different pathways and training opportunities within sport, beyond the role of performer. The new facilities will help the development of students in partnership with National Governing Bodies, academies and satellite clubs, as well as allowing us to develop our links for all students with local providers/teams. These links will provide training opportunities for both staff and students.

Inspiring the Next Generation of Teachers: as an established centre for School Centred Initial Teacher Training, this facility will transform the training we can offer to future generations of teachers, who will go on to teach PE at schools right across the UK. We’ll also offer to host other training for established teachers. 

Supporting Volunteering: we’ll host training courses for grass roots sports coaches and volunteers, enabling them to be trained and put their learnings into practice in the same facility. We’ll train our young volunteers (Latin Leaders) to enable them to provide peer to peer support to others, including specific training modules such as the MIND training to support more vulnerable people to exercise. 

Employment & Vocational Training: the Sports Campus will be used to deliver a range of training to staff, including teaching, support staff and premises staff. In addition, we’ll train new staff appointed to the project, including young people.