Junior Sports Leader Award (JSLA)

The award is a nationally recognised award that helps young people over the age of 14 develop their leadership skills. It's a fun course and offers an insight into the enjoyment one can gain through sports leadership.

The syllabus fosters generic skills, which can be applied to a variety of different sporting activities as well as contributing to the participants personal and social education. It's a practical qualification where candidates learn through doing, rather than through written work. A candidate's ability as a competent leader is assessed by observation rather than written tests.

The award is a fantastic way of delivering elements of the Physical Education National Curriculum at Key Stage 4. As well as this, the generic aspects of leadership taught by the Award complement many of the Government's objectives of the Citizenship N.C. requirements.
These include:

Developing skills for enquiry and communication and Developing skills for participation and responsible action.

PSHE elements include:
Developing confidence and responsibility; Developing a healthier, safer lifestyle; Developing good relationships and respecting the differences between people.

Unit 01 - Planning, preparing and assisting a simple sporting activity
Unit 02 - Basic communication skills for leading a sporting activity
Unit 03 - Principles / practice in delivering a basic health / fitness session
Unit 04 - Understanding fair play in sport
Unit 05 - Understanding the role of the sports official
Unit 06 - Understanding the scope of local sport and recreation activities
Unit 07 - Demonstration of leadership skills in sport

Factors such as the student to teacher ratio, the number and experience of the group and the number and experience of the tutors all influence the overall length of the course. However, for a group of 24 students, it would on average take 32 hours to complete both modules.