Unit 6 P1 M1

Foundation
At a foundation level these sessions for sports development programmes are aimed at primary school children or complete beginners. They will start of learning the basic rules and skills that will help them to incorporate this in different sports such as catching and throwing. At this stage in the programme it is more about the children having fun so that they will return again.
Participation
This level is not as easy as to define as the others as there are a variation of schemes that the participants of all ages can choose from. This is based on participation levels in sport so they encourage people that don’t play sport that often or those that generally doesn’t play sports at all to get active.
Performance
This is to improve the athlete’s performance as they already take part and are familiar in the sport this would happen by regular practice, competition or skill training. An example of this would be county trials when they identify potential talent within the team that they could work with to make improvements that they can move up to the excellence level.
Excellence
This is at national and international level that will practise for championships around the world. The UK sport is in charge at the excellence level of a range of sports so they made some rules about the support of funding and training for athletes. These are to help progress the athlete through to the next two stages, development of the athlete to reach the podiums and finally support them with realistic medal potential.
Netball
Foundation- This is the introduction of the sport and where they could take netball into a further career. In school they would start to play netball, they could participate in the sport on the playground with friends or in PE lessons. They will learn the basic skills needed for netball which is throwing the ball. The more that they participate in sports when younger they are more likely to carry it on into older ages.
Participation- This stage is probably happens when you first start secondary school and this is where they would take part in after school activities. At the after school clubs it is an opportunity to all year groups. This is optional to go to therefore the student continue to return due to physical, mental or social reasons.
Performance- The age range is around 13 when they start to play for an academy, county or district team. This requires a lot more commitment as you would need to turn up to training as it isn’t optional any more and more times in a week needed to participate. In the teams you will be with the same age range, performance and skill level.
Excellence- This is where you go to competitions to compete against top teams. This is where you will find the top players performing. This is the highest level that you can reach in netball and only the ones who put time and effort in to the sport will get these rewards.
Strengths and improvements