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Celebration Evening at score
Students from local primary and secondary schools, celebrated their achievements over the last term at the SCORE Centre. The
children have completed a 10 week Playing For Success course, aimed at improving ICT, Literacy, Maths and self esteem. The groups recieved medals from Leyton Orient players Michael Simpson and Matthew Lockwood, and were given tickets for Orient's home match against Doncaster Rovers.
YOUNG SPORTS LEADER AWARD
During the Easter Holiday's, 17 young people completed a Young Sports Leader Award, held at the SCORE Centre. The course teaches 10 - 13 year olds how to coach younger children a variety of sports games and acts as the first step towards a career in coaching. The course was a great success and all of the group passed.
OSCA Training Programme
Leyton Orient Community Sports Programme are looking to recruit young people from Waltham Forest aged 16 – 18 for a three month sports training project based at The Score Centre and Leyton Orient FC between April – June 2007. The full time course will include a mixture of sports based qualifications and key skills work combined with work placements with the Community Programme. For more information contact Philip Rudling on 0208 539 8076 or email philip.rudling@locsp.org.
Community Sports Programme wins Best Youth Project
Leyton Orient Community Sports Programme, based at The Score Centre on Oliver Road, Leyton, last week picked up two prizes for its Learning Skills Council North ESF funded youth training project OSCA – Orient Sports Coach Award, at a prestigious awards evening held at the Science Museum, South Kensington. The Community Programme won the Best Youth Project Award for delivering the OSCA project over the last two years and one of its students, Lucy Kousoulou (16) a former Connaught School pupil from Leytonstone walked off with the Beneficiary of the Year Award in the 14 – 19 age group.
OSCA is a vocational training project that seeks to provide a range of sports based training and education programmes for young people who have an interest in working in the sports and leisure industry. Students complete a number of accredited courses delivered by the Community Programme’s team of tutors and coaches including National Open College Network units in An Introduction to the Sports Industry and Coaching, First Aid, Using Web and Email, Sports Leaders UK Award in Sports Leadership and an NCFE Certificate in Exercise Studies.
The project provides students with work experience opportunities with the Community Programme at the Score Centre and exit routes into other education and training courses. Much of the scheme is delivered at a purpose built IT suite in the West Stand at Leyton Orient FC and in the sports facilities at the adjacent Score Centre providing an insight into the professional sports industry. Students have the opportunity to interview community and football club staff and attend visits to other sports facilities including Arsenal and Tottenham Hotspur FC to compare facilities.
Delighted LOCSP Education Manager Philip Rudling said after the event, “We were really pleased that the London North Learning Skills Council recognised the quality of work being delivered at the Score Centre and the award is a credit to the coaches, tutors and, of course, the young people the Community Programme has worked with over the last two years.”
Lucy, who attended the evening with her mother, spoke about how she had enjoyed meeting a range of young people on the courses and developing her coaching skills. She said, “I have learnt a lot over the time on the project and this has helped me become a better coach with my football club Globe Rangers where I coach the U 8’s.”
Education and Training Programmes
Education for 9 - 13 year olds
The educational team at Leyton Orient CSP has successfully run initiatives in Waltham Forest, Hackney and Tower Hamlets. With the opening of the Leyton Orient Education Centre (LOEC) in the West Stand at Leyton Orient FC’s stadium LOCSP is looking to expand the daytime provision by offering the following initiatives:
Learning Through Football
A six week programme of one hour cross-curricular lessons delivered during curriculum time by qualified teachers. The learners visit LOEC for the final session to study a professional football club and go on a tour of Leyton Orient FC before finishing with a sports session at the SCORE Complex.
Healthy lifestyles
This five week programme focuses on physical activity, diet, types of fitness, understanding the body as well as looking at harmful elements such as smoking and alcohol. The sessions take place during curriculum time and are a mixture of workshops lessons and practical sports coaching.
Computer Clubs for Girls
Aimed at girls from 10-14 years old, Computer Clubs for Girls is an initiative looking at getting more girls interested in ICT. “CC4G” provides a unique combination of popular interests (music, fashion, dance and celebrities) with Key Stage 2 & 3 curricular links. LOCSP is looking to add this to our offer of daytime sessions at the centre or as a Saturday Morning Club.
Olympic Citizenship Pack
This is a newly developed cross-curricular pack focusing on the Olympics and links to a range of themes including health and citizenship. The project is ideally suited for Key Stage Two and Three students and could be delivered at schools or at the Leyton Orient Education Centre.
LOEC Short Courses
The new Leyton Orient Education Centre facility is able to offer short tailor-made daytime courses for individual schools. These are aimed at a number of different groups including gifted and talented, special needs / learning difficulties students or whole classes.
The focus is on improving ICT, literacy and numeracy using sport as a motivation for learning. Examples of activities include designing Powerpoint quizzes, fitness and skills testing projects or a video-editing project.
Education for 14 -19 year olds -
Orient Sports Coach Award – Training Programme
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Orient Sports Coach Award
Leyton Orient Community Sports Programme is offering a unique opportunity for young people aged 14-17 to gain coaching experience and qualifications related to the sports and leisure industry.
Based at the Leyton Orient Education Centre and SCORE this innovative project will give students a flavour of the professional sports industry and provide an unusual and stimulating learning experience.
The project is aimed at students who may be disengaged from mainstream education and training or those students who would benefit from sports related vocational education and training.
The programme is split into three discreet components:
- Introduction to Coaching and the Sports Industry/Women and Sports
- Sports Leaders
- Vocational Sports Training
Students can complete separate sections of the course before returning to other forms of education and training or continue to progress onto the other stages. Each course will have embedded key skills support built into its framework and careers advice and guidance will be offered at the conclusion of each stage.
The rolling programme will recruit batches of learners at two points each year in April and September to start the first stage. All students who take part in the programme will be referred from partner organisations and will attend an interview to complete an action plan. Students should be aged between 14-17 and ideally live in the London boroughs of Barnet, Enfield, Haringey or Waltham Forest.
Accredited Education and Training Courses
LOCSP is able to provide Open College Network Units in the following areas for young people aged 14 -19:- Introduction to Coaching, Introduction to the Football Industry, Introduction to Weight Training, Using the Web and Email. Additional qualifications offered:
First Aid
UK Sports Leaders Level One Award in Sports Leadership (14 – 16 year ols) UK Sports Leaders Level One Award in Community Sports Leadership (16 years plus)
