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Mr Keast – Director of Sport	Stacey Brewin – Senior Community Multi Skills Coach	Mrs Patel – Sports College Secretary	Partnership Development Manager Sarah Lansdowne	Krystal Shepard – Fizzical Activator


Jamie Reynolds – Sports Development Officer	Traci Edwards – Community Multi Skills and Athletics Coach	James Roche – PE & Sport Project Officer

We are based in the Sports College Office which is at the top of the school near the Connexions Office!
Crown Hills gained the Specialist Sports College Status in 2004 and as a Specialist Sports College, we will be able to make a real difference to the lives of people within our school, our family of schools and our host community. We intend to improve educational standards in general and within PE and Sport in particular, raise awareness and improve understanding in terms of health and active lifestyles, focus on inclusion and the development of community well-being. What’s going on within Crown Hills at the moment? The Sports College is running a number of projects at the moment… The MEND programme (Mind, Education, Nutrition, Do it!) The MEND Programme is a fun, free after-school course for 8 – 14 year olds which helps families learn how to be fitter, healthier and happier. It was developed by experts in child health and our research shows it really works!


Healthy Lifestyles Girls in all year groups can take part in the Healthy Lifestyles Project that is run with the LEC on Mondays and Tuesdays. The sessions include Fitness Suite time, Nutrition Workshops and Street Dance!


Dreams and Teams Dreams and Teams is a project that runs with a link school in Nigeria. Each year, students that have shown a lot of sporting interest and effort are selected to travel to Nigeria and organise a sports festival at our link school in Surrulere. We hold fundraising events and try and gain sponsorship so that we are able to take sports equipment out to Africa for the school to keep.


Educational Trips We have organised numerous trips through the Sports College, from ski trips to Badminton Competitions to trips around Loughborough University! The next trip that is coming up is a Football Tour to Spain which is taking place in October! Step into Sport Step into Sport is a volunteering programme that encourages students to volunteer in their chosen sport within their local community. Some students have already attended TOP Link Festivals which teaches them how to successfully lead a sports festival.


Sports Leadership There are many leadership opportunities available at Crown Hills. We offer the Award in Sports Leadership (JSL) to selected students in year 11, we run a Junior Football Organisers Course (JFO) and there are other Leadership Opportunities in specific sports such as Badminton and Basketball. We are also piloting cross curricular leadership courses in Maths and Modern Foreign Languages (MFL).