Mid Sussex (St Pauls)

The School Sports Partnership programme is designed to increase the percentage of school children who spend at least two hours each week on high quality physical education (PE) and school sport to 75% by 2006. This target has since been increased and extended to 85% by 2008.

The Partnership works in seven key areas to increase participation in high quality:

1. Physical Education
2. Out of School Hours Learning
3. Daily Physical Activity
4. Competition and Performance
5. Improving attainment and achievement
6. Improving attitude, behaviour and attendance
7. Increasing participation in community sport

The Partnership will be working on all aspects of the PESSCL strategy; the Goverment's means for achiveing the PSA target. The strategy has 8 strands. The main two; School Sports Partnerships and Specialist Sports Colleges are responsible for delivering the other strands along with a series of other key partners. The other strands are:-  Gifted & Talented, Swimming, QCA PESS investigations, Step into Sport, CPD and School-Club links.

Government funding of in excess of £1.5 billion has been put into the PESSCL strategy since 2003. Of this, nearly £1 million is being inversted in Mid Sussex!