Barnhill Community High School

SHSSN

"Working together to inspire sport"

SHSSN aims to enhance the lives of students, by creating opportunities to take part in sport either as a participant, leader or performer.

Founded on the Olympic and Paralympic values, our work promotes self-esteem, healthy & active lifestyles, and the development of life skills.

We believe that a thriving sports provision in our area can best be achieved by schools working together across age groups in local hubs, in a spirit of genuine partnership.

SHSSN grew out of Barnhill School Sports Partnership, which has existed since 2006. When the funding changed in 2011, SHSSN was the successor organisation, and has been operating successfully as a non-profit organisation since September 2011.

SHSSN currently works with 16 Primary schools in two clusters, Barnhill Academy Trust and one Special School (Meadow High School). Barnhill support by sharing facilities as they have valued the work of the partnership over many years. Meadow Special School is also part of the SHSSN partnership and continues to contribute towards the SHSSN infrastructure and ensuring that sport for all remains very much at the centre of what we do. 

The board believes that moving forward SHSSN is best placed to support high quality Physical Education based on the needs of your school, as we:

  • Work within the local community to provide opportunities for pupils and their families
  • Ensure that PE & physical activity is used as a tool to help whole school improvement and ensure that the health of its pupils are central to whole school planning.
  • Deliver high quality competitions & opportunities for ALL SHSSN pupils no matter what their ability is to ensure that ALL pupils have a positive relationship with movement and physical activity

The Team

The day-to-day team is made up of two experienced Physical Education and School sport Specialists.

Alan Watson - Primary PE SpecialistAlan is an experienced trained Physical Education teacher, which includes over 9 years of Primary PE teaching. He works closely with our gold and silver schools and specifically individual teachers who deliver PE in the school.  He has been supporting SHSSN schools and their staff to deliver High Quality PE, in all year groups, including reception. He has a drive to ensure schools deliver physical activity and competition provision that supports young people’s wider development, alongside creating positive environments.  Alan also supports and leds the development of whole school initiatives, particularly concentrating on increasing participation and active healthy lifestyles.  His invaluable support in numerous schools has included before, during and after Ofsted inspections, particularly for PE deep dives.

Becci Cooke - School Games OrganiserBecci, is an experienced Secondary PE teacher and has been a Hillingdon School Games Organiser for over 12 years.  She is part of the founding SHSSN team, launching its values and practices and helping shape the current excellent programme it is today. She is dedicated to identifying and targeting provision to those who will benefit most from increasing their levels of physically activity and creating positive experiences in sport and PE.  Alongside this she is a strategic lead for Barclays Girls School Football Partnerships, whose aim is to give all girls equal access to football.  Becci also works on behalf of London Sports to get targeted schools to compete the active lives survey.  This is whilst working with several strategic partners to promote healthy active lifestyles, with schools and their families, including Hillingdon Council Public Health Team & Travel Team, other West London School Sports Partnership and local community sports clubs.