School and Community Activator Apprenticeship Level 2
School and Community Activator promotes and delivers fun, inclusive and engaging activities that help whole communities to change their behaviour, encouraging them to adopt and sustain a physically active lifestyle. This apprenticeship is designed to support sport and physical activity in schools and communities, promoting more positive attitudes towards being active.
The School and Community Activator is an important role model in improving health and wellbeing in people, especially children, who are inactive, or from lowincome and marginalised communities. The focus of this course it to teach coaches how to inspire their groups of participants, and help them to grow and develop through sport and physical activity. This role also supports school Sport and PE sessions, as well as after school clubs and structured play sessions. The end point assessment includes three key elements: practical coaching observation, presentation with question and answers, panel interview.
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Course Details
- You will be required to have achieved Maths at Level 1
- You will be required to have achieved English at Level 1
Understand the benefits of physical activity and sport for individuals, families and communities, and know why adopting an active and healthy lifestyle is important. Understand the basic principles of behavioural change when applied to sport and physical activity, and know how to keep customers active. Know the importance of effective leadership and coaching in the delivery of a physical activity or sports sessions. Know how to work with community organisations to run tailored neighbourhood events that make best use of local assets to bring people together. Know how to coach and lead the key components of a successful activity sessions for specific audiences.
The Community Activator Coach Standard will underpin occupations such as an Activator, Sports Coach, Activity Leader, Community Worker or Outreach Officer. These roles are predominantly employed by sport for social change charities; SMEs who operate in the sport and physical activity sector; local authorities; sports clubs; leisure centres; youth work agencies; housing associations and outdoor education centres and are deployed to primarily work with inactive groups of people.
The Community Activator Coach promotes, delivers and coaches fun, inclusive and engaging activities that help whole communities to change their behaviour, adopt and keep to a physically active lifestyle. Community Activator Coaches are more than activity and sports leaders – they understand communities and customers. They will be equipped with the specialist knowledge needed to effectively work with one customer group (such as inactive teenagers) but also be knowledgeable about other inactive customer groups whom they may be expected to work with on occasions.
Course Applications
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This course costs: £0.00
If the amount shown is more than £0.00 and you are aged 19 and over at the start of the course, you may have options to help fund your studies with us. The funding you can receive depends on your personal circumstances, and could mean you are entitled to fully subsidised or reduced tuition fees.
This course is fully funded for 16-18 year olds (if applicable to the course).
You may also be entitled to support with travel, childcare and equipment.
To find out exactly what you could receive, contact our Helpzone team on 08000 380 123 for a free, impartial appointment, with no commitment necessary.
This course costs: £
If the amount shown is more than £0.00 and you are aged 19 and over at the start of the course, you may have options to help fund your studies with us. The funding you can receive depends on your personal circumstances, and could mean you are entitled to fully subsidised or reduced tuition fees.
This course is fully funded for 16-18 year olds (if applicable to the course).
You may also be entitled to support with travel, childcare and equipment.
To find out exactly what you could receive, contact our Helpzone team on 08000 380 123 for a free, impartial appointment, with no commitment necessary.
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