What is Playing For Success?

Playing for Success (PfS) is a Department for Education and Skills (DfES) initiative established in partnership with sports clubs and local authorities. The centres use the environment and medium of sport to help children and young people identified by their schools as being in need of a boost to get up to speed in literacy, numeracy and ICT. The centres encourage independent learning and aim to increase confidence, self-esteem and motivation during twenty hours of Study Support provision.

 

 

PfS Gloucestershire

Playing for Success Gloucestershire is a unique three-way partnership between the DfES, Gloucestershire County Council as the local authority and Gloucester Rugby, Cheltenham Racecourse and Forest Green Rovers Football Club. In addition to the core study support provision, from which over three thousand children and young people have benefited since the first centre opened in 2001, the PfS centres also deliver a wide range of other services to students and adults during the day, at weekends and in the school holidays.

At PfS Gloucestershire we believe everyone that comes to one of our sessions is intelligent in some way! Therefore, we teach in a multi-sensory, cross-curricular way, which will appeal to children and young people of all learning styles. For example, if you prefer to learn by doing, you will find lots of practical activities taking place or if you are a visual type of learner, we have lots of visually stimulating activities and peripheral learning opportunities. These teaching methods will allow you to develop and grow across all the intelligences. Our motto is PBA - Personal Best Always – a philosophy that says that everyone has the potential to be successful.

PfS Gloucestershire has achieved much over the last five years, but there is still a lot to be done. Unprecedented government investment in the ‘Every Child Matters’ agenda means that PfS has a major part to play in the development of Study Support opportunities throughout Gloucestershire. The organisation is well placed to be able to play a significant part in influencing strategy as well as contributing to bringing about a culture change within Gloucestershire schools regarding the development of alternative teaching and learning strategies. PfS also continues to support the development of the ‘personalisation’ agenda within Gloucestershire’s schools.