Our Aim: Things as We See It
Remember the days spent at the park with your mates? Or how about the leagues and tournaments you’ve won and the friendships built with the team getting there? Or just the fullness of your lungs as you ran across the hills, faced upturned towards the deep blue sky, really living the moment.
Our kids these days, they don’t have that anymore. Worse, their bodies are failing, and their joy is fading right before our eyes. In the UK, nearly 80% of kids aren’t getting enough exercise, and are more vulnerable to diseases and mental illnesses than any previous generation. The evidence of these dangers are beginning to show: 20% of 10 and 11 year olds are obese, and a 25% of 4 and 5 year old are obese. If things stay the same, this generation would never know what it means to be outdoors, to experience life in its fullness.
We are here to change that. We are here to turn back the clock, to guide and inspire the current generation to a holistic way of life, where sports and fitness mean friendships and achievements. Our staff are more than just that coaches, they are also mentors and rescuers for a generation on the verge of physical and emotional collapse.
Hence, be it at school or beyond, let us at SPA be there for your kids, using a shared passion for sports and training to secure their present and the future.
Who We Are
First and foremost, we are parents and siblings to children. We understand that to work with kids you must first be someone to them. A counsellor, an advisor, a friend. Only once you’ve made a human connection can you make a lasting and meaningful impact in one’s approach to health and life.
Next, we are specialists. We don’t “manage” children, we are here to teach by example, to inspire good sportsmanship, and to get our kids to express themselves through sports. Our key trainers each have a National Governing Body second level qualification in at least one sport, and some have even more than that because we are just that passionate for the sports we play and teach.
As we know, accidents can happen when playing sports, we are also ever-ready for the natural bumps and bruises. As such every trainer in the SPA team is trained in Emergency First Aid and has a Safeguarding Certificate for Children.
What We Do
The SPA family have been in the line of raising young individuals for 10+ years within the fields of sporting and education. It’s been quite a journey across many secondary schools, primary schools, and tons of sports camps!
It doesn’t matter when or where, we are always excited to help kids reach their utmost their potential in fitness and sportsmanship. Spanning across Breakfast, Lunch, and After School Clubs to direct PPA coverage and Staff CPD Support, we are ready to bring our tutelage and expertise to wherever needs us.
By utilising their expertise and specialisations in coaching and talent management, our team of qualified and empathetic coaches bring out the best in our kids. Keeping with our best standards, our highly-customised National Curriculum Sports and PE plans ensure that every child is having fun on the field, are honing their talents and passions and come back home full of exciting stories to share with their parents and loved ones!
Why We Are Here
Times have been changing. Inactivity has become the norm and at this rate chronic illnesses are soon to follow. How can the kids of today live a meaningful life if their bodies and minds are becoming weak because of an environment that encourages poor diets and sedentary lifestyles?
But even so, these kids, your kids, they’re full of potential, ready to come bursting alive. These last 10+ years, every child with us has been different, each with their unique backgrounds and struggles, but their core needs stay the same: the support of a team, the guidance of a coach and the need to soar.
All we have to do is give them the tools they need to build their own wings, be ready to catch them when they fall, and be their number one fans at every step of the way. It has not been easy, but it has been worth it. This approach, this philosophy, it what has driven us at SPA this far and every success story we co-create with these children we cherish dearly. And we keep going, to foster an active generation that are physically fit and emotionally well.
What We Are About
Sports Performance Academy,
Play More, Learn More, Live More
Ductus et Patronus
• Meaning: Guidance/Leadership and Protection/Advocacy
Our Vision, and Our Destiny
To foster an active generation of kids and youth that are physically fit and emotionally well.
To be the leading platform in sports education for living a healthier and more fulfilling life.
To nurture the passion for sports and healthy living within children and youth of this generation.
Our Mission, and How We Get There
For all kids and youth in the UK to look to sports as the best means of achieving physical fitness and emotional wellbeing, and hence have the means of living a healthier and more fulfilling life. We achieve this by:
Placing emphasis on mental and emotional development, which then shapes the kid’s inner motivation to be passionate and self-motivated towards playing sports and achieving a healthy way of life.
Coaching and mentoring children into becoming champions within their schools, through the platform extracurricular sports clubs that enables us to inspire in our kids the reason to seek more from life through sports and health.
Providing curricular support to schools by raising the passion and productivity of our education partners towards health and sports through our experience in handcrafting PE Classes delivery and PPA Coverage support for schools.
Building bonds with children and their parents beyond school settings, through sports camps, holiday camps, and boot camps that will inspire them towards becoming an active and balanced individual.
Constantly refining and innovating our National Curriculum Sports, PE Plans, and Quality Assurance metrics to maintain and improve the high quality of our coaching and training delivery.
Contact us if you’re ready to take your school to the next level, be it in the classroom or beyond!
SPA Today
“Today’s children are the least active ever and face a ticking time-bomb of health issues that puts them at serious risk of having shorter lives than their parents.”
Dr Steven Mann, UK Active
Kids should be active, it’s how things have always been. Going out there, exploring the world, making friends, these are kids’ things. The unbalanced approach to technology and convenience is endangering our children’s lives and childhoods.
We are concerned for children, as well as for parents who are finding it harder and harder to communicate the dangers of the norm of inactivity. We know that kids may not always see eye-to-eye with their parents when it comes to lifestyle and dietary choices.
That’s why we are here to help. Our staff are here to be the mentoring your child’s life, as mature as a parent while being as fun and dependable as a friend and confidante. We are here to teach a holistic way of life through the means of friendship, sports, and physical and emotional wellness.
SPA comes from a long line of coaches and mentors who seek the best from your kids while supporting them amidst their worst. They are the guidance your kids are willing to listen to, they are an ear for both the day’s happenings, they are a shoulder to cry on, and someone who will stand astride them as a mentor for years to come.
Then, once we have built the bond between player and coach, we proceed to draw out the raw talent brimming within our kids with our NGB-qualified training approaches, encouraging these future superstars to refine their minds and bodies towards becoming dedicated athletes who are ready to represent their schools and even their whole localities!
We are parents, neighbours, and friends, but most importantly we are athletes who see our kids as the sportswomen and sportsmen of today and as the champions of tomorrow.
The SPA Ethos
We are sportspeople. We are here to pass the torch to the new generation of Olympics-hopefuls, passionate trainers, and die-hard fans. Watching over this generation through our last 10+ years have been the greatest blessing to us, to passionately live out our duty as mentors and guides to a generation who are really doing the best they can. They just need the advice and support of someone who they can look up to in terms of fitness and passion.
Once these kids do get the guidance and coaching they need, the results are incredible. According to a survey conducted by Public Health England, parents of children aged 5 – 11 find that exercise and sports made their kids feel happier (79%), become more sociable (74%), and more confident (72%) in their daily lives.
So when you sign up your kids with us, you’re not just signing for a weekly exercise program or a 3 day camp, instead you’re building in them the cornerstone for the foundations of their health, their soul and their future.