School of Hard Knocks: FREE Rugby & Mentoring Programme for Students at Risk of Exclusion
School of Hard Knocks
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Project runs on following dates
The activity runs from 6 September 2021 to 10 March 2024. The Young Ealing Foundation does not manage bookings for this activity and is not responsible for the delivery of the project. If you have any questions, please contact the organisation directly.
If you're a parent, teacher or guardian and would like to get your child involved in one of our life-changing programmes, please get in contact with us at [email protected]
What
SOHK for Schools is a unique three-year intervention that uses rugby coaching, classroom sessions and mentoring to improve attendance and behaviour at school. Our ultimate aim is to help at-risk children avoid permanent exclusion. We work with children in year 9, who are disengaged from education, have poor behaviour or who find school difficult due to difficult personal circumstances. We use rugby coaching and mentoring every week of the school year, beginning the programme during school time and then we run after-school sessions during the crucial GCSE years. Our coaches teach the game of rugby union and use SOHK’s unique psychology and values-led approach to teach character and positive attitudes. We make sure the same staff work with the same children every week, to enable a consistent intervention with children who might otherwise become NEET (Not in Employment, Education or Training). This on-pitch activity is underpinned by a variety of off-field mentoring, whether that is one-to-one mentoring of students, managed conversations with the schools’ pastoral staff or even accompanying students in lessons to provide focus and support with challenges such as giving presentations or completing written work. At the end of the school year, we offer a ‘trip of a lifetime’, to reward students who have reached their behaviour, attendance and attainment targets. We can deliver this programme on Wednesdays in Harrow. The first year of delivery is currently FREE and we would ask for a commitment to support our fundraising efforts for the final two years if the programme is running successfully in your school.Organiser
