Helping you help our future sports stars

Our education packages for teachers and coaches continues to be one of our greatest assets, allowing Sportscape to pass on our professional knowledge. This enables all coaches to create a better learning environment for our future sports stars.

Delivered to a number of professional football organisations, including the Malta FA, along with local clubs and schools, we believe this to be an invaluable experience for coaches and teachers.

Our adult education and coach development packages are perfect for teacher training or inset days.

We ensure that every adult who is responsible for teaching sport to children can do so equipped with the best knowledge of how to provide Sport England’s focus on multi-skill development for children and therefore improve childrens’ ‘movement for life’.

Coach education

We provide football clubs with the opportunity to have our educators working with their own team coaches to provide practical or theory-based football specific coaching sessions.

The most effective sessions we have conducted have been a mix between both the theory and practical sessions, allowing people to understand how and why we practice effectively and then putting this theory into practice.

Some of the topics we have covered in our theory sessions include:

  • Roles/Responsibilities of a coach
  • Code of Conduct
  • Child Protection
  • Psychological Aspects of the Game
  • Understanding the children and their learning
  • The Coaching Process
  • Session Planning
  • Assessment of Children (physical and technical)
  • Video Game Analysis, the use of video as a medium of feedback/assessment
  • Understanding nutrition
  • Working in schools (curriculum delivery)
  • Holiday coaching

Our practical sessions can have a specific focus or be generic in nature. We have focussed on how to educate specific age groups:

5-7yrs (basic skill development, understanding basic positioning)
8-10yrs (concepts of team play, techniques in pressurised situations, small sided games 6v6 up to 8v8)
11-14yrs (11v11, phases of play, functional practices)
14yrs-open age (Tactical development of defensive and attacking play)

We have also delivered specific sessions on tactical development/phases of play to develop coaches understanding of a ‘club way to play’.

One of our programmes included principles of attacking play, which included the sessions:

  • Creating space in the attacking 1/3
  • Wide play
  • Switching play
  • Crossing and finishing
  • Attacking in central areas
  • Long range shooting and close range finishing
  • Wide angles shooting
  • Possession- when to play to feet/space
  • Creativity in and around the box

These activities aid in the continual development of current coaches/managers/parents, giving all sufficient knowledge to develop sound coaching philosophy/practice based on knowledge given, accompanied by each individuals personal experience.

Contact us for more information.

Teacher development days

Sportscape Leisure Ltd. also cater for teaching staff during inset days and twilight sessions.

Sportscape’s unique teacher development programme has benefitted previous schools by:

  • Improving the existing knowledge for the physical education curriculum within primary teaching (CPD).
  • Gaining access to Sportscape Leisure Ltd. Short and Medium Term Plans for all age groups, in all areas of the Physical Education Curriculum.
  • Encouraging teamwork and social interaction with all existing staff, or to develop new working relationships with new members of your team.

See our schools and preschools section for information on the services we can provide for schools, preschools and teachers.