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  • 14-week after school programme

  • 
Feb - June 2023

  • 
Starting w/c 20th Feb 2023 


  • Taster Session w/c 23rd January 2023

What we need from you:

  • 10 girls and 10 boys at the taster session.

  • Registration forms printed and given out at the taster session.

  • All registration forms signed and returned by the 10th of February. *Please note, only those who have returned a signed form by parents/guardian can start the programme.

  • For each session, we require a football pitch and indoor space for the entire programme.

Overview

 

Our work is based on experiential learning, allowing participants to discover and gain new skills and networks while encouraging and expanding beyond their comfort zones.

Using story-telling and football activities as unifying tools, participants take part in our weekly programme of structured activities to learn about and value their own identity and challenge their perceptions of others.

Each school is partnered with a school from a different borough in London. In the first 6 weeks, both schools will make a film about their own school, local community, and identity. Both schools will initially get to meet each other through their films... before finally meeting between weeks 11- 13, where both schools get to visit one another over a two-day exchange.

Schedule

 

  • Weeks 1 - 6 Film Making & Football

    Participants explore identity and their local community by filming interviews with their teachers and local businesses, while developing team working skills through football.

  • 
Weeks 7 - 10 Film Screenings & Football

    Participants have the opportunity to watch their partner's school film and prepare for visiting and hosting their partner school.

  • 
Weeks 11 - 13 Exchanges

    Exchange days will take place over two days. One day in your own school and one day in your partner school. The exchanges are full of group activities and challenges.

  • Week 14 Evaluation & Finish

    Participants wiil evaluate the programme, finish their accrediation work book and play football.

Criteria

 

  • Year 9

  • Entitled to pupil premium funding* but not limited by

  • Split 50/50 between boys and girls

  • May have been identified by the school as a student who would benefit from social/emotional development

  • Displaying behavioural challenges and/or barriers to learning

  • Experiencing loneliness, isolation, or lacking a positive social peer group

  • Experiencing low confidence and self-esteem

Taster Session

 

w/c 23rd January 2023

  • Tasters sessions will run on your chosen delivery day starting the week commencing 23rd January.

  • We ask that 10 boys and 10 girls attend the taster session.

  • We will need an indoor space to show a video and introduce the programme, followed by football on the pitch.

  • Registration forms are to be given out at the taster session and must be returned by 10th Feb.

    **Please note students will strictly not be allowed to participate until we have received their signed registration forms.

Exchanges

 

The exchanges are filled with team building activities and games. We always welcome teachers to join in and require one member of staff to travel to the partner school. We will have 4 x FJ team members on the day. To add to the experience of exploring London we suggest using public transport. The timings match a school day and we work around best times to arrive and leave to minimise disruption in the school setting.

  • Exchanges are 2 x full days between 8th May and 22nd May

  • One day visiting partner school

  • One day hosting partner school

  • Food provided by FJ

Hosting requires – outside space for sports/football activities and inside space for food and any other games/activities. Space should be big enough to accommodate for 30 students.

Accreditation & Outcomes

 

Through completing our programme participants:

  • Achieve a nationally recognised Open College Network Qualification in Youth Leadership (equivalent to half a GCSE) which can be used in interviews, applications and colleges.

  • Develop positive attitudes, confidence, learning and self-esteem.

  • Improve skills in leadership, teamwork and communication.

  • Build positive relationships with peers within their own school and also from different communities and backgrounds.