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Sporting Schools is an Australian Government initiative designed to help schools to increase children's participation in sport, and to connect them with community sporting opportunities.
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Sporting Schools resources
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Loved Sporting Schools? Now Find a Club!
Now that students have had the opportunity to play sport at school, help them find a local sporting club where they can further develop their skills and make new friends.
Find a Club resources
In our Find a Club toolkit for schools we have content, images, social posts and more to help you promote club sport to parents and students.
Activity cards
Yulunga Traditional Indigenous Games
Games created to provide all Australians with an opportunity to learn about, appreciate and experience aspects of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures.
Playing for Life
Australian Health and Physical Education Curriculum aligned activity cards designed for every day use by teachers, coaches, out of school hours care staff and parents
Sports Ability
User-friendly, inclusive activity cards that have been designed to assist teachers in the delivery of sports-based activities that cater for all levels of ability.
Australian Sports Commission resources
Find a club
Connect with community sport and find a club in your area.
Learning centre
Search e-learning and face to face courses in the Learning Centre.
Lesson plans
Explore curriculum-aligned sport lesson plans for primary school teachers.
Coaches and officials
Access information that supports community coaches and officials.
Physical literacy
Holistic lifelong learning through movement and physical activity.
School sport
Supporting sport in schools to deliver relevant sporting experiences.
Participation
Insights and information to support sport participation across life stages.
Active at home
Keep students active at home with these resources from our sport partners.
Sporting Schools Evaluation Insights
2016 Evaluation
Sporting Schools hits the mark for program users
Sport Australia engaged ORIMA Research to undertake an independent national evaluation of the Australian Government’s Sporting Schools program during 2016 - to determine the extent to which the program has achieved its intended aims and objectives.
More than 6,700 educators and 1600 coaches and coach providers participated in the evaluation and eighty nine per cent or more of people using Sporting Schools strongly endorse the program and want to stay involved.
Overall, the findings highlight that:
- local communities place high value on sport in school
- schools value external coaches delivering sport in schools
- the program is helping to strengthen the broad value of sport and its contribution to key child development outcomes.
Sport Australia is working with sport and education partners to enhance the delivery of sport in schools through a range of strategic and operational projects. This includes building upon the following key success factors identified in the findings:
- an engaged coordinator or Principal selecting sports that meet the specific needs of their students
- co-delivery of sports by teachers and external coaches
- an inclusive program that accommodates a diverse range of abilities. Adaptable activities suitable for novices as well as children who already have skills in the sport
- good equipment/facilities
- junior products designed for delivery in schools. Products that emphasises a games-based approach to learning, minimise waiting time, explicitly promote inclusivity, and suitable for large mixed-ability groups of varying age
- experienced, trained and organised coaches
- appropriate child-to-coach ratios
- pathways to community sport
Evaluation summaries
To find out more, download the evaluation summaries below.
- 34929_sporting-schools-evaluation-infographics-overview.pdf(PDF • 308.6 kb)
- 34929_sporting-schools-evaluation-infographics-schools.pdf(PDF • 333.6 kb)
- 34929_sporting-schools-evaluation-infographics-sports.pdf(PDF • 341.7 kb)
Sporting Schools Plus
Sporting Schools Plus aimed to influence the whole-school environment by creating opportunities for students to encounter impactful physical activity experiences throughout the school day. The program funded 450 schools to activate the Physical Literacy: Guide for Schools over terms 2, 3 and 4 in 2020.
Additional Resources
- Sporting-Schools-Plus-Evaluation-Summary.pdf(PDF • 4.8 mb)
Club Connect
Sporting Schools Club Connect aimed to enable primary schools to build on their involvement in the Sporting Schools program by establishing and building on relationships with local sporting clubs.
Successful schools delivered an out of school hours sport program by engaging a Club Connect partner sport.
The focus of the initiative was to support primary school students to transition from a school-based sporting program to participating at their local sporting club, promoting a lifelong engagement in sport.
Additional Resources
- Club-Connect-program-insights-external-report.pdf(PDF • 1.1 mb)
Additional resources
Special Olympics Australia
Designed to improve the delivery of sport and physical activity for students with an intellectual disability.
Olympic Education Resources
Curriculum aligned Olympic education resources designed to encourage sport participation and showcase Olympians as community role models.
Sun Smart
Join the SunSmart program, view sample SunSmart policies and find curriculum aligned resources tailored to primary and secondary school students.
Have any questions about Sporting Schools?
Email:support@sportingschools.gov.au
Phone: 1300 785 707