Junior Athlete Education framework (JAEf) - Gifted &Talented - Gravesham SSP

Junior Athlete Education framework (JAEf)

Junior Athlete Education

The Junior Athlete Education framework is designed to help schools build effective support programmes for young talented performers in their schools.

The Gravesham Schools Sports Partnership Gifted and Talented project aims to support the development of JAE in all partnership secondary schools. The programme will aim to get all secondary P.E gifted and talented coordinators JAE trained.

Throughout this first year of the Gifted and Talented programme Meopham School will be running The JAE (Junior Athlete Education) programme to support Meopham G&T students in Key Stage 3 who are competing and training at a high level and have demands on their time from sport as well as education.

The JAE programme at Meopham School offers a series of workshops and reward trips for the identified G&T young people in PE. The workshops can include, dealing with the sport/school/workload balance, nutrition, health and fitness, multi-skills workshops and overcoming other obstacles.

The Junior Athlete Education (JAE) Framework is designed to guide and help schools provide comprehensive personal development support for young talented performers within their school.

The JAE Framework aims to:

• Provide a package of tools and resources to help schools provide talent development support for their ‘talented in sport’ pupils.
• Ensure that schools are able to embed the support into their whole school G&T programme.
• Provide a holistic 5 ability based model which is meaningful to both the PE national curriculum and world class performance sport.

The JAE Framework is based on four pillars. These cover how schools can recognise, guide, support and inspire talented young sportsmen and women:

JAE Pillar 1: recognising talent: Select the right young people onto the schools talent support programme.

JAE Pillar 2: guiding talent: Guide young performers through the critical years of physical and mental development, and on to the correct pathway that allows them to realise their sporting potential as adults.

JAE Pillar 3: supporting talent: Empower the school’s young talented performers with the skills and support them  to balance the conflicting challenges of their sport, studies and personal lives.

JAE Pillar 4: inspiring talent: Inspire the school’s current and future young performers to achieve their potential and to develop into role models, within the school and the wider community.

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