Sports History Educational Resources

Using sporting heritage to inspire academic learning

Sports clubs are often among the best examples of living history in their localities. Contemporary, relevant and inspiring, they have huge potential as gateways to academic learning and to social history.

We use sport as a springboard to inspire academic learning. Sport is powerful in motivating under-achieving children, as our consistent, positive testimonials show.

Or growing library of resources covers many sports and educational themes.

Each resource is:

• off-the-shelf and ready to use, in classroom and home learning versions

• a project divided into self contained sections, giving flexibility to the teacher and structure for home learners

• substantial, comprehensive, rigorous and challenging

• cross-curricular, with classroom versions referenced to the National Curriculum

• designed to cover age ranges 10 to 15

Our resources cover:

• basic skills, particularly in literacy

• social history

• sporting role models, their extraordinary stories, and their inspirational personal qualities, particularly their courage, determination, perseverance and resilience

• social issues such as race, gender and disability discrimination.

We also:

• work directly with sports clubs to advise, research and write education resources based on their histories

• deliver sporting heritage assemblies to schools, developing understanding of social and moral issues.

Described as ‘an amazing innovation’ by an OFSTED inspector, and with consistent, positive testimonials, these resources come highly recommended.

SERVICES OFFERED:

• downloadable resources for classroom and home/catch-up learning (from this website)

• delivery of school assemblies

• consultancy about researching and writing resources about the history and heritage of your sports club

• researching and writing sports club histories

Classroom and Home Learning Resources

Our learning materials use the power of sport to engage children with social history, moral issues and the development of cross- curricular knowledge and skills.

School Assemblies

We deliver inspirational assemblies that use powerful stories from sporting history. Our assemblies engage and educate children in social history and related issues of fair play, teamwork, equal opportunities, racism, physical impairments, mental health and remembrance.

Historical Resources For Sports Clubs

Sports clubs are often among the best examples of living history in their communities. We help clubs to research, write and promote education resources based on their histories, celebrating and building awareness of their role and standing in the local community.

These schemes are truly cross-curricular. They have great potential for motivating under-achieving children and for inspiring the fans of the future.

GERRY SUTCLIFFE, MP FOR BRADFORD SOUTH AND FORMER MINISTER FOR SPORT

What fantastic resources, and what a gargantuan task it must have been in bringing these together. Thanks so much for all your hard work…these are such a great resource for local schools to be able to use.

SARAH HUGHES, HERITAGE PROJECT MANAGER, BARNSLEY FC REDS IN THE COMMUNITY

Our staff and children have learned new information about the history of Pudsey.

We will be incorporating the histories of our local cricket clubs in the curriculum from now on.’

CLASS TEACHER, PUDSEY

One of our difficult boys was inspired by the biography of Jimmy McIlroy.

He said: 'He was just like me. I could do what he did.'

He did a huge amount of research at home and produced some fabulous work. 

A Burnley footballer from the 1950s had become his role model.

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DEPUTY HEADTEACHER

This is a superb way of learning and also of understanding something about the history of Bradford and the importance of Bradford City to the district – and it works. This isn’t a theory – this actually works and there’s evidence of that. It’s difficult to really enthuse and to reach some kids in our schools. This scheme reaches the difficult to reach. Everybody benefits…the schools benefit because they have a fabulous teaching aid, the kids obviously benefit because they have something which will interest them as a more interesting way of learning as part of the National Curriculum. Bradford City gains because it enables young people across the district to learn that Bradford City is not just a football club, it is part of the rich heritage and culture of Bradford.

DAVID WARD, (FORMER) MP FOR BRADFORD EAST