Ethos & Aims
Elite Academy aims to engage young learners through
sporting teamwork and social development.
Quantitative & Qualitative Progress Reports
Students will be assessed on entry and develop both numeracy and literacy skills through our state of the art technology. Students will all wear Edge Player Data statistical vests.
The data from practical sessions will be downloaded onto each pupil’s individual tablet. Staff will then use this data to create fun and innovative lessons where the students are partaking in numeracy and literacy sessions without feeling they are in a classroom environment.
The above enables the team to track performance and gives students an understanding of how physical activity can be incorporated across curriculum subjects and impact on the daily life of an individual.
Everyday a student attends the academy they will receive a one-to-one mentoring session with our highly experienced sports therapist.
These sessions will support each individual to overcome boundaries and supply them with coping techniques and strategies which can be taken back to their home school and into the community. Students at the academy will have the opportunity to feedback on their learning experience daily.
Alternative Environments
We offer spaces to students who will learn through sporting experiences which they can take into classroom scenarios and beyond. Whatever the setting, young people at Elite Academy Group are given ownership and take responsibility for their own learning in an environment where they feel safe, and their attendance makes an impact. Students will learn fundamental skills through sport and bring this learning into a classroom environment to support with curriculum subjects.
Our skilled team have an extensive background of working with children in many different arenas. It consists of a mixture of educationalists and vocational professionals. We focus on the importance of teamwork whilst understanding the individual, using bespoke strategies to support our young people.
TERM DATES 24/25
Autum Term 1
Monday 1st October – Friday 18th October
Half Term – Monday 21st October to Friday 1st November
Autum Term 2
Monday 4th November – Friday 20th December
Christmas Holiday – Monday 23rd December – Friday 3rd January
Spring Term 1
Monday 6th January – Friday 14th February
Half Term – Monday 17th February – Friday 21st February
Spring Term 2
Monday 24th February – Friday 4th April
Easter Holiday – Monday 7th April – Monday 21st April
Summer Term 1
Tuesday 22nd April – Friday 23rd May
Half Term – Monday 26th May – Friday 30th May
Summer Term 2
Monday 2nd June – Friday 18th July
A DAY AT OUR ACADEMY
9.00am – 9.15am Morning Registration, Morning Briefing & Session 1 Strategy Planning
9.15am – 9.30am Stat Vest Set up and Monitoring with Technical checks
9.30am – 11.00am Session 1 (Practical) Including: Football, Strength & Conditioning, Speed & Agility, Combat Sports, Circuit Training, Fitness, Health & Wellbeing
11.00am – 11.10am Break (Snacks & Drinks)
11.10am to 12.30pm Session 2 (Practical) Including: Football, Strength &Conditioning, Speed & Agility, Combat Sports, Circuit Training, Fitness, Health & Wellbeing
12.30pm to 1.00pm Lunch (Fully catered hot and cold nutritional menu for each student daily)
1.00pm to 1.30pm Sports Stat Vest Analysis, Evaluation and Debrief from the Morning Sessions
1.30pm – 2.00pm ASDAN Short Course Sports or Personal Effectiveness Short Course Qualification (School Request)
2.00pm – 2.05pm School Finish
how we work
We allow each individual to develop themselves through healthy engagement with risk, problem-solving and self-discovery throughout the sporting environment.
Within the Elite Academy Group, we aim to promote a holistic approach developing every individual involved. Our focus is to promote resilience, confidence and independence. These skills enable our students to become creative learners helping them to not only grow within themselves but develop the ability to work as a team.
At the academy we can help children with additional identified learning needs to gain independence, self-confidence, reduce anxiety, build resilience, and improve their communication skills. We create and promote a safe, non-judgmental environment that is accessible to all.
Classroom Sessions
At the Elite Academy Group students will partake in structures classroom lessons. Our classrooms do not reflect a regular classroom with tables and chairs. Each student will have their own beanbag and work straight onto a tablet.
The work delivered by teachers will be uploaded into the class folders. Each individual will also have their own class folder with their own learning resources available to them. Each class session will have between two to four members of staff. These staff will support the learning, lowering the ratio of pupils to adults in the classroom. The maximum ratio within the classroom environment would be five pupils to one member of staff. Students in a mainstream classroom would normally experience a ratio of approximately thirty students to one member of staff.
Practical performance within activities during session one and session two will be tracked through Edge Player Data statistical vests. The vests will analyse both individual performance and team performance in a multitude of ways. This data will then be created into lessons for the afternoon session which is classroom based. Students will use their data to develop mathematical skills such as distance and angles. The data will also provide the students with statistics to complete written analysis which will support literacy skills such as paragraph structure and punctuation.
Students will gain a skill set from the teaching and learning within the academy and our aim is for those skills to be transitioned into their mainstream lessons.
CATERING
Each student will be provided with the option of a hot or cold meal on a daily basis. The students will pre order from a variety of healthy options which will be delivered by our external catering company. All lunch time meals will be incorporated into the Elite Academy package. Along with lunch the students will be able to benefit from water that is available throughout the day.
The food that students eat will also provide a foundation for their classroom based lesson. Students will learn to understand the importance of nutrition and the impact this will have on their body and how nutrition will enhance perform within the sporting arena.
