The Goffs Sports Academy/Business Academy

 

Goffs Sports Academy

The Goffs Sports Academy allows students to gain a qualification in Sports Leadership. Participants will learn and demonstrate important life skills such as effective communication and organisation whilst learning to lead basic physical activities to younger people, their peers, older generations and within the community. The course involves both guided & peer-to-peer learning and supervised leadership to ensure that learners have all the skills they need to lead basic physical activities to other people.

“Being a member of the Goffs Sports Academy is a way to boost my confidence when I am talking to people that do I not know”- Millie

“I enjoy passing on my knowledge of football to the younger years” – Frankie 

 “The Goffs Sports Academy is enjoyable as I get to see students’ progress in a sporting environment” – Maddy 

 “The Goffs Sport Academy allows me to gain a qualification that will give me an extra ‘edge’ on my CV” – Jess 

“The Goffs Sports Academy is a great way to solidify my umpiring knowledge” – Sophie

“The qualification develops my leadership skills so I can communicate efficiently when I am coaching swimming outside of school “ – Adam

 

Goffs Business Academy

The Goffs Business Academy is an excellent opportunity for students who are keen to develop their employability skills and gain experience of a professional environment. This will allow students to combine their academic studies with:

  • A programme to develop entrepreneurial skills, allowing students to start and run their own business
  • A programme to develop employability skills, such as intensive interview preparation
  • Access to regular guest speakers from industry which under-pin the real-world knowledge required to succeed in your future career

Potential candidates may be aspiring to progress into Higher Apprenticeships, employment or further study in areas such as Accountancy, Business/Management, Economics or Law”

This has been taken from the prospectus. The students will follow the Young Enterprise Programme where they will have a number of guest speakers into school in different areas of the business world. They will develop their own Ltd Company and potentially have the opportunity of creating a product to take to fairs to show off and sell.