The Premier League Primary Stars programme continues to provide holistic support to primary schools across Blackpool and the Fylde Coast, helping schools improve the quality of PE, enrich the curriculum and create positive outcomes for pupils and staff. Through our Teacher Support programme, specialist coaches work alongside teachers to develop their skills, knowledge and confidence in delivering high-quality PE. Using collaborative planning, team teaching and practical mentoring, the programme leaves a sustainable legacy within schools.
Beyond PE, Premier League Primary Stars uses the power of football to inspire learning and personal development. Girls’ Extra-Curricular Football sessions create safe and inclusive opportunities for more girls to participate in sport, while Anti-Discrimination Workshops explore themes including Rainbow Laces, No Room for Racism, Show Racism the Red Card, Anti-Bullying Week and Black History Month, empowering pupils to challenge discrimination and become active allies. Themed workshops, including sessions delivered with Professional Game Match Officials (PGMOL), promote values such as respect, resilience and fairness, with schools accessing Unstoppable also benefiting from author engagement opportunities with Dan Freedman.
The programme also empowers pupils to become leaders through Projects for Positive Change, including Blackpool Buddies and eco-council initiatives that encourage social action and environmental responsibility. A wide range of competitions, festivals, extra-curricular clubs and high-quality PPA cover further enhance schools’ provision, increasing participation, inspiring lifelong enjoyment of physical activity and providing memorable experiences that support both personal development and educational achievement.
Teacher Support & CPD Workshops
Delivered over a minimum of 11 weeks, teacher support takes place during curriculum time as face-to-face provision.
Our support combines guidance, demonstrations of different approaches and content that will actively involve the teachers in delivery. Teachers will therefore play a key role in the delivery and are not expected to simply observe. This we believe is the best practice to maximise learning and thus create a positive experience for the teacher being supported.
Extra – Curricular Delivery
The schools delivery team have a vast amount of experience in delivering a variety of sports and activities, which schools can take advantage of to increase their extra-curricular provision for the benefit of their pupils. Whether it’s increasing the enrichment programme that the school offer, working with an identified group of pupils or providing extra training to a school team, the Community Trust have the relevant staff to suit the needs of the school.
Our delivery team have a vast amount of experience in delivering a variety of sports and activities, which schools can take advantage of to increase their extra-curricular provision for the benefit of their pupils. This type of delivery aims to increase the pupils’ enjoyment of physical activity and sports, boosting their motivation and confidence to continue their participation both inside and outside of school.
Increasing the enrichment programme that the school offers
Working with targeted groups
Extra training for a school team
PSHE Targeted Intervention
These sessions are to support pupils who require additional support over a minimum of six weeks.
Blackpool FC Community Trust is supporting Year 6 pupils with our successful PSHE programme, ‘Unstoppable’. The programme is going into its fifth year of delivery and is offered to every primary school and alternative education school in Blackpool. Unstoppable has been developed by the Trust using bestselling author Dan Freedman’s book of the same name. The story follows a set of twins who, in their early years in high school, find a number of challenges that are emotional, though provoking, and above all relevant to the children of Blackpool.
Anti-Discrimination Workshops
These workshops enable and prepare pupils in creating inclusive cultures. They are designed to empower pupils to be aware of and understand discrimination and educate them on how to be active allies and develop tools to change discriminatory behaviour.
We deliver workshops on topics such as Anti-Bullying Week, Premier League Rainbow Laces, No Room for Racism Campaigns, Children’s Mental Health Week, Show Racism the Red Card, Black History Month, and World Book Day.
Social Action Projects
Designed to empower pupils to identify and address social needs. Young people take practical action in service of others to create positive social change that is of benefit to the wider community as well as the young people themselves. (National Youth Agency)
The Blackpool Buddies programme trains and inspires playground leaders in KS2 to support in break and lunch times within KS1 play areas, delivering fun and fair play activities.
We encourage pupils to supporting a school youth voice or eco-council to positively impact environmental sustainability issues within school or the local community.
Educational Activations
These workshops promote awareness and inspire engagement for pupils to meet clear social or educational goals. Themes will span PSHE, English, or maths related topics to address the needs of the pupils.
PGMOL workshops are co-delivered with Professional Game Match Officials to educate pupils on the pressures and demands of professional referees. There is an interactive workshop that incorporates kit, and equipment used by referees, and embeds learning through values such as resilience, respect and fairness.
Inclusive Sport & SEND PE Provision
BFCCT have a dedicated team of experienced coaches who specialise in delivering high-quality inclusive physical activity sessions tailored to children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND), social, emotional, and mental health difficulties (SEMH) or have an educational health care plan (EHCP)
Our coaches bring a diverse range of skills, enabling them to design and adapt sessions that meet the varied needs and abilities of participants. Our delivery creates a positive culture with empathy, respect and care at heart. It focuses on inclusion, active contribution, and personal achievement, ensuring every child has access to enjoyable physical activity sessions, where they are supported to succeed.
New to this year, we support staff in mainstream primary schools who deal with SEND children on a day-to-day basis through our curriculum PE support. It helps raise teachers’ skills, confidence, and knowledge around delivering SEND national curriculum PE lessons, linked to their mainstream PE objectives and outcomes. This creates a more inclusive PE offer within their school. We also offer physical activity delivery, targeted group work, and extra-curricular clubs.
Competitions
We hold several inter-school competitions and festivals for Year 2 to Year 6 pupils to engage and inspire children through sports and physical activity.
There are opportunities for pupils to attend events at the football stadium, such as our Fit2Go Festivals for Year 4. We hold football tournaments across the year for pupils to compete against other schools and progress to regional and national finals held across the country, including Wembley Stadium, where our recent finalists from Norbreck Primary Academy competed in the final of the Kids Cup.
Our local competitions, The Jimmy Armfield Trophy and Fit2Glow Festival linked with Blackpool Illuminations Lightpool Event, expose pupils to the town’s success stories of who and what makes Blackpool such an exciting and unique place to live.
