PE & Sports Coaching Apprentice (Bickleigh Down Primary)
Bickleigh Down Primary School
Plymouth (PL6 7JW)
Closes in 10 days (Wednesday 23 July 2025 at 11:59pm)
Posted on 10 July 2025
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Summary
Someone to support all areas and deliver high-quality PE or sports provision, be a great team player and want to be involved in all aspects of school life. Mornings will be spent in the classroom supporting the teaching of lessons or working with small groups of children. Afternoons will be spent supporting a range of sporting activities.
- Wage
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£11,778 for your first year, then could increase depending on your age
National Minimum Wage rate for apprentices
- Training course
- Community activator coach (level 2)
- Hours
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Monday - Friday term time only, between 8.30am and 4.30pm, exact hours will be communicated nearer the time.
30 hours a week
- Start date
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Monday 1 September 2025
- Duration
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1 year 2 months
- Positions available
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1
Work
Most of your apprenticeship is spent working. You’ll learn on the job by getting hands-on experience.
What you'll do at work
To work under instruction/guidance to enable access to learning by:
- Attending to the welfare and personal care of pupils including those with special educational needs
- Delivering pre-determined learning/care/support programmes
- Implementing English / Maths programmes
- Assisting with the planning cycle
- To work effectively with individual pupils and/or groups under the direction and supervision of the PE Coordinator and class teachers
- To improve competitive sport provision
- To assist with improvement of staff development within the Physical Education and School Sport
- Creating and maintaining a purposeful, orderly and supportive environment, in accordance with lesson plans.
- Assisting with the planning of learning activities on a regular basis
- Monitoring pupils’ responses to learning activities and accurately recording achievement/progress as directed
- Providing detailed and regular feedback to teachers on pupils’ achievement, progress, problems etc.
- Promoting good pupil behaviour, dealing promptly with conflict and incidents in line with established policy and encouraging pupils to take responsibility for their own behaviour
- Establishing constructive relationships with parents and where appropriate participating in feedback sessions with parents alongside the teacher
- Administering routine tests, invigilating exams and undertaking routine marking of pupil’s work
- Assist teachers with learning activities ensuring health and safety and good behaviour of pupils
- Assisting with the development and implementation of Individual Education/Behaviour Plans and Personal Care Programmes
- Establishing constructive relationships with pupils and interacting with them according to individual needs
- Promoting the inclusion and acceptance of all pupils
- Encouraging pupils to interact with others and to engage in activities led by the teacher
- Setting challenging and demanding expectations and promoting self-esteem and independence
- Providing feedback to pupils in relation to progress and achievement under the guidance of the teacher
- Support the pupils, either individually or in groups, in accessing learning activities as directed by the teacher or PE Coordinator to enable pupil’s progress towards their targets
Where you'll work
Bickleigh Down Church of England Primary School
School Drive Woolwell
Plymouth
PL6 7JW
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
College or training organisation
PLYMOUTH ARGYLE FOOTBALL IN THE COMMUNITY TRUST
Your training course
Community activator coach (level 2)
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What you'll learn
Course contents
- Planning and adapting sessions and activities that respond to customer feedback and encourage customers to develop a lifelong activity habit.
- Coaching or leading pre-planned sport or physical activity sessions that are attractive to the target audience(s) and develop motivational relationships with customers.
- Promoting a physical activity offer, (including but not exclusively) organised play and sport in the community which supports individuals on their behaviour change journey.
- Working collaboratively with sports clubs and other community assets – including volunteers, public services, youth workers, the police and community champions.
- Supporting customers to co-produce rewarding volunteering opportunities.
- Supporting families to participate together in sport and physical activity.
- Working effectively with customer insight to overcome individual, community and societal barriers to participation in physical activity and sport.
- Contributing to the employer’s design of activities and services and practising the employer’s organisation’s values, policies and procedures.
- Contributing to teams that deliver community events and festivals.
- Supporting organisations to evaluate, develop and promote sessions and other opportunities such as outdoor group exercise and informal social play.
- Maintaining personal safety and wellbeing, as well as that of customers.
- Managing disruptive behaviours from individuals within the group setting.
- Encouraging customers to be regularly active – both formally and informally – within sports clubs or leisure facilities including open-space.
- Effectively using social media and technology, appropriately, to deliver targeted messages to identified customer groups for example children, teenagers, adults and older adults.
- Effectively monitor and evaluate activities, sessions and projects using technology platforms to maintain accurate records and produce timely reports.
Your training plan
Community Activator Coach Level 2 (GCSE) Apprenticeship Standard:
Demonstrating experience:
- If your application is successful, you will have a chance to discuss your relevant prior learning or experience with your training provider and employer
- You will all need to agree any adjustments to your training plan
- You should be prepared to show your competence, and evidence of relevant qualifications
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE or equivalent in:
- English (grade 4-9 (A*-C))
- Math (grade 4-9 (A*-C))
Let the company know about other relevant qualifications and industry experience you have. They can adjust the apprenticeship to reflect what you already know.
Skills
- Communication skills
- IT skills
- Attention to detail
- Organisation skills
- Customer care skills
- Problem solving skills
- Presentation skills
- Administrative skills
- Number skills
- Analytical skills
- Logical
- Team working
- Creative
- Initiative
- Non judgemental
- Patience
- Physical fitness
Other requirements
Be happy to support the Christian ethos of our school.
About this company
Bickleigh Down is a larger than average Church of England Aided Primary school maintained by Devon local authority. The school is situated close to the border between Plymouth and Devon. The school serves a mixed catchment area of Plymouth and South Hams: a mixture of urban and rural environments. Bickleigh has a PAN of sixty and is full or almost full in every year group. The local and wider community hold the school in high esteem and many families choose to move into the catchment area because of the positive feedback we receive. Bickleigh Down is a Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School. We are very proud of our Christian ethos which has a marked impact on standards of academic achievement as well as relationships and behaviour. A recent SIAMS inspection in June 2022 judged the school to be ‘Excellent’. This demonstrates the impact of the strong emphasis we put on personal development at Bickleigh Down. A Section 5 inspection in October 2023 judged the school to be ‘Good’ with the EYFS and Leadership and Management being ‘Outstanding’.
After this apprenticeship
- There may be the potential for full-time employment upon successful completion of the apprenticeship, for the right candidate
- There will also be support given if the successful candidate wants to progress into university or gain a full-time school role after completing the apprenticeship
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
PLYMOUTH ARGYLE FOOTBALL IN THE COMMUNITY TRUST
Thaila Morse
thaila.morse@pafc.co.uk
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000330944.
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Closes in 10 days (Wednesday 23 July 2025 at 11:59pm)
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