Primary Link Teacher (PLT) Roles and Responsibilities
An existing primary or secondary school teacher (QTS) released from teaching for 10.5 days per year. The PLT will advocate high quality physical education, coordinate and support school sport opportunities.
Overall Role
- Share good practice with school colleagues to support high quality physical education
- Develop and ensure implementation of after school programmes in their school
- Work with the SSCo to use sport to support transition from primary school to secondary
- Find the non-participants in school and develop programmes to engage them
- Work with the SSCo to support signposting and transition into local clubs
Main Responsibilities and Tasks
Leadership and Management
- Advocate the role of physical education and sport in raising whole school standards
- Encourage the school to ensure that young people take part in a minimum of 2 hours high quality physical education, leading to a further 3 hours beyond the school day
- Develop an individual school action plan that reflects the priorities of the school
- Establish robust data tracking and monitoring systems to help inform school priorities
- Fulfil the requirements of local and national data collection processes - for example, SSP sport survey, SSP swimming survey, national PESSYP survey
High Quality Physical Education for all Young People
- To work with the school leadership team to ensure provision of high quality physical education for all young people in their school
- Work with the School Sport Coordinator in signposting to the Local Delivery Agency (LDA) to support the delivery of high quality physical education
Access to High Quality Activities on a School Site
- Determine the school's sporting landscape - who are the engaged, the non-engaged and what are their barriers to participation?
- Work with the School Sport Coordinator to implement appropriately targeted, sustainable high quality OSHL programmes in their school
Signpost to High Quality Activities in a Community Environment
- Work with the School Sport Coordinator and to develop links to local clubs, signpost and support young peoples transition into them
Provision for Young People to develop their potential
- Identify which young people in their school are engaged in competition and determine the barriers for those that aren't engaged
- Work with the School Sport Coordinator and Competition Manager to increase high quality competition opportunities
Coaching, Leadership and Volunteering
- Develop and implement appropriate high quality leadership programmes to support OSHL sport programmes